trations are here reproduced as Fig. 14.
Fig. 14.—Bone Tubes which served as flasks for ochre (12). Grotte des Cottés.(After Breuil.)
They were both made of the cannon-bone of the reindeer, and evidently intended for the same purpose. One is a fragment, but the other is nearly complete, and is figured under three aspects. The latter takes the form of a slender bone-case, or small flask. The rim is evenly cut across and polished, the neck is ornamented with an incised circle and cross-hatching, and the body shows two rows of transverse lines. The other, of which the neck and lower end only were found, has no ornamentation. The lower end was found to contain a quantity of powdered ochre, thus at once suggesting that these bone bottles were the artists' paint-boxes.
