. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 393. barrel of a large bovine animal. That it is bovine is indicated by the smallness of the tail, straightness of the hocks, advanced position of the male organ, and the sndden rise at the withers; unfortunately the fracture occurs where the long, shaggy mane, determinative of the si)ecies, ought to begin; but the fore- going are all characteristic of the bison. There is no drawing upon the opposite side. The specimen repr
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 393. barrel of a large bovine animal. That it is bovine is indicated by the smallness of the tail, straightness of the hocks, advanced position of the male organ, and the sndden rise at the withers; unfortunately the fracture occurs where the long, shaggy mane, determinative of the si)ecies, ought to begin; but the fore- going are all characteristic of the bison. There is no drawing upon the opposite side. The specimen represented by flg. 41 is remarkable in that it was discovered and displayed long before any person in Europe suspected the existence of prehistoric man. This specimen was found in 1824, by M. Brouillet in the Grotto of Chaffaud, in the valley of the Charente. M. Brouillet was a notary at Charroux. He kept this specimen in his collection until the year 1851, when he sent it to the Musce Cluny. The specimen remained there, under the catalogue number of 2467, along with other objects found at the same time—bits of flint, bone points, har- poons, etc.—without attracting atten- tion to its (or their) prehistoric charac- ter. It is of reindeer horn and has been broken into three jiieces, two of which only remain together. It bears the en- graving of two animals, one following the otiier; the one in front is complete, standing, and at rest, the chin or nose prominent, the lips hanging, and the ears straight and long. The dorsal vertebrae are indicated by a series of vertical marks. Tlie animal has no horns and has the appearance of a hart or doe—the female of the stag or deer kind. The second ani- mal, which follows the first, is cut in two across the shoulders by the breakage of the bone. Its head i s finer and its muzzle is more pointed. The ears are straight. This speci- men was discovered in the Musi'e Cluny by M. Gabriel de Mortillet, and his son Adrien made a drawing and a fu
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