. Science from an easy chair; a second series. Science; Natural history. 250 PREHISTORIC PETTICOATS modern look about the figures and a freedom of touch about the drawing which makes one think at first that the picture is some modern, hasty but clever sketch in silhouette of a number of short-skirted school-girls at play. The waist is extremely small and elongated, the skirt, or petticoat, -bell-shaped, and the whole figure " ; One of the figures appears to have a cloak or jacket, but the breasts and legs are bare. Some three years ago Sir Arthur Evans discovered in the palac
. Science from an easy chair; a second series. Science; Natural history. 250 PREHISTORIC PETTICOATS modern look about the figures and a freedom of touch about the drawing which makes one think at first that the picture is some modern, hasty but clever sketch in silhouette of a number of short-skirted school-girls at play. The waist is extremely small and elongated, the skirt, or petticoat, -bell-shaped, and the whole figure " ; One of the figures appears to have a cloak or jacket, but the breasts and legs are bare. Some three years ago Sir Arthur Evans discovered in the palace of the ancient Kings of Crete coloured frescoes. Fig. 29.—Reproduction of drawings from a rock shelter near Lerida in Catalonia, representing a group of women clothed in jacket and skirt with " wasp-like " waists. The original figures are ten inches high, and the drawing probably dates from the late Palaeolithic period. some 3 500 years old representing in great detail elegant young women with greatly compressed waists, strongly- pronounced bustles, and elaborately ornamented skirts. These Cretan paintings of prehistoric young women, both in costume and pose, are like nothing so much as the portraits of distinguished ladies of the fashionable wodd of Paris exhibited by the painter, Boldini, in the " Salon," It is remarkable that explorers should have found con-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. London, Methuen
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