. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 406 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. and firm. These pieces of flint or similar ones are always found as- sociated with the engravings. The surface having been prepared, the objects to be represented are outlined, probably, by marks with the graver, cutting away the substance to a greater or less depth, accord- ing to the sketch desired. The knives, flakes, and gravers may have. Fig. 67. SCULPTURED REINDEER IN IVORY; HANDLE OF A PONIARD WIT
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 406 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. and firm. These pieces of flint or similar ones are always found as- sociated with the engravings. The surface having been prepared, the objects to be represented are outlined, probably, by marks with the graver, cutting away the substance to a greater or less depth, accord- ing to the sketch desired. The knives, flakes, and gravers may have. Fig. 67. SCULPTURED REINDEER IN IVORY; HANDLE OF A PONIARD WITH DLADE BROKEN AND LOST. THE NOSE IS THROWN UP AND THE HOENS LAID ON THE BACK. Cavern of Bniniquel (Tarn-et-Garonue). Collec-teil by Peci-eileau de I'lsle and by )iim to the British Museum. Cast, Cat. No. 8)46, Natural size. been inserted in handles or operated directly by hand. No evidence has been found of the actual employment of a handle. The scrapers are more likely to have been so used, for the same implement in a handle has been employed in modern times by the Eskimo. In the sculptures the surface, after having been reduced to proper form, seems to have been polished by rubbing, and ac- cordingly there is found just such an implement as would lierform this service, and no other service than this has ever been suggested to ac- count for the existence of the implement. It is a piece of flint, called in French re- louclioir,^ rudely chipped into the general form of a man's foreiinger. The ex- treme point of the finger is ""'"'"? smooth and polished, evi- dently the result of much rubbing, and apparently not done by grinding. Of course this descrii^tion and the assignment of these utensils is more or less theoretical, but it is not open to the objection of many of the theories proj^ounded by wise men of our day, for— (1) The existence of these objects is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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