. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 388 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. were found, and he mentions the rock shelters of Bruniquel (Tarn et Garonne), Le Chaffant (Vienne), and the caverns of Massat (Ariege), Les Eyzies (Dordogne), Mont Saleve (Geneva, Switzerland), and Schussenried (Wurtemburg), as having them. Fig. 34 is an important and inter- esting specimen of these batons de commandcment of reindeer horn. Tlie two figures represent the opposite sides of the same piece.
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 388 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. were found, and he mentions the rock shelters of Bruniquel (Tarn et Garonne), Le Chaffant (Vienne), and the caverns of Massat (Ariege), Les Eyzies (Dordogne), Mont Saleve (Geneva, Switzerland), and Schussenried (Wurtemburg), as having them. Fig. 34 is an important and inter- esting specimen of these batons de commandcment of reindeer horn. Tlie two figures represent the opposite sides of the same piece. They are, however, turned end for end, and were discovered in 1886 in the Grotto of Montgaudier, not far from Angou- leme, in the valley of the Eiver Tar- doire (Charente), near the western I coast of France, by M. Paignou, who I worked in company with M. Albert ^., Gaudry. The archipologic stratum i contained another engraved boue, 4 bone needles, polishers, an ivory I point, scrapers, and a magnificent £ Solutreen leaf-shaped blade. I M. Gaudry, the eminent paleon- ? tologist of the Museum of Natural I History, Paris, received this baton ^ de commandement and it is now dis- I played in the museum. He made an ^ extended description of the object I before the Academy of France in I July, 1886. In November he con- p tinned the account of his excavations f in this grotto, and reported what he I found in the lower strata—speci- mens of bones of the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, corresponding to and contemporaneous with the Mouste- rien epoch. Below this baton de com- numdement, in the same stratum and associated with it, were bone jioints and a barbed harpoon, so M. Gaudry concludes that the stratum contain- ing this baton was subsequentto the epoch of Moustier and contempora- neous with the cavern of Chauffaud, in the same neighborhood. He says of this specimen: It is made of reindeer horn and is pierced with a large hole at the end. It is covered with engravings which show the cert
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