. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 392 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. Calves.—Fig-. 37 represents an engraving on reindeer antlers from Langerie Basse, collected by Massenat. The figures are three calve?; heads in a row. The reindeer horn has been flattened by cutting or scraping on the W^_^^.^j&j^ —— — sides, and the engraving done on the surface. The object prob- ably served as the handle of a poniard, but the blade is broken off. The top and. Fig. 37. THEKE CALVES'
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 392 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. Calves.—Fig-. 37 represents an engraving on reindeer antlers from Langerie Basse, collected by Massenat. The figures are three calve?; heads in a row. The reindeer horn has been flattened by cutting or scraping on the W^_^^.^j&j^ —— — sides, and the engraving done on the surface. The object prob- ably served as the handle of a poniard, but the blade is broken off. The top and. Fig. 37. THEKE CALVES' HEADS, ON KEINDEEB ANTLER, BOTH .SIDES THE SAME. FRAG- MENT OF HANDLE OF PONIARD. Laugerle Basse. Collection, Massenat. Oast, Cat. No. 99857, size. Fig. 38. calves' (1) HEADS ENGRAVED ON BONE. Laugerie Basse, Dordogue. Collection, Massenat. Natural size. bottom edges of the handle have been wrought into festoons, with cres- cents engraved opposite each x)oint of the festoons. The sculpture is entirely ornamental, except so far as it may roughen the handle for pre- hensile purposes. The opposite side of the handle is similarly engraved. Fig. 38 represents an engraved bone from Laugerie Basse. The engravings are supposed to be calves, as in fig. 37. It was one of the peculiarities of the art work of this epoch that in such examples as we are now considering the animals or heads engraved followed each other in single file. They appeared to be always uniform in size, height, age, sex, and species. Ruminants (?).—Fig. 39 is one of those uncertain animals classed by Lartet and deMortillet as ruminants, leaving the species undetermined. Lartet says: ^ The size and shortness of the shonlder, while exclnding the reindeer, the stag, and the horse, might yet serve for a bovine animal, but the fracture at the attachment of the horns de- prives us of the means of judging if it be of this character. The withers do not seem high enough for the aurochs; or, at least
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