Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . Fig, 12. Fig. 13. Notwithstanding the crudity that characterizes these drawings, it is un-doubted that the children who made them were influenced more or less bypictures they had seen in books and elsewhere, and for this reason we maysuppose the work to be all the better done. It was intended to introduce here a few illustrations to show the resem-blance that exists in many points between these and Indian drawings, butwant of time must be urged as a plea for the omission. To those who areacquainted with aboriginal sketches of the human form this want
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . Fig, 12. Fig. 13. Notwithstanding the crudity that characterizes these drawings, it is un-doubted that the children who made them were influenced more or less bypictures they had seen in books and elsewhere, and for this reason we maysuppose the work to be all the better done. It was intended to introduce here a few illustrations to show the resem-blance that exists in many points between these and Indian drawings, butwant of time must be urged as a plea for the omission. To those who areacquainted with aboriginal sketches of the human form this want will scarce-ly be observed,Vhile, to those who are not it may simply be stated that manycorrespondences^exiat in both kinds of drawing. The Human Face in Olay. In plastic representations of the human form, as well as in many of thoseproduced in stone the Indian has worked more successfully. Numerous fig-ures testifying to this:fact have appeared in former reports, and the followingseries from the Laidlaw^collection will more fully illustr
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