series of objects illustrating the results of the progressive skill of these reindeer-hunters.
Plate VII., Nos. 1 to 7, 9 to 11, 18 and 19, represent saws, borers, scrapers, etc., from the later stations. Nos. 12 and 16 are illustrations of the laurel-leaf blades characteristic of the Solutréen period. The former (Col. Massénat-Girod) was found at Laugerie Basse, and the latter (made of agate) in the Grotte de l'Eglise (Dordogne). Nos. 8, 15, 17 and 21 are specimens of the earlier Moustérien, implements from Le Moustier, and are all trimmed flakes, with the exception of 17, which is a small coup-de-poing. No. 13 represents a core from Les Eyzies, and 20 shows a typical, well-made flake from La Madeleine. A small mortar, made out of a waterworn pebble from Les Eyzies, is shown under Fig. 14; others like it have been recorded from La Madeleine, Laugerie Basse, Bruniquel, and elsewhere.
The figures on Plate VIII. illustrate weapons and ornaments made of bone, deer-horn, teeth, ivory, and shells. Nos. 1 to 14, 15, 17 to 19 (ivory), 20, 25, 26 (fox), 27, and 28 are from La Madeleine (Col. L. and C.). Nos. 5 to 14 are from Laugerie Basse (Col. M.-G.). Nos. 24 and 29, representing a supposed whistle and a sculptured dagger, are also from that prolific station (Col. M.-G.). No. 16 is a thin carved plaque of bone, probably an ornamented pendant, found at Bruniquel (British Museum). Nos. 21 to 23 are from Kent's Cavern. Nos 12 to 14, 28, and 30 are the bone or horn tips of small lances, probably propelled by such an implement as is figured under No 8 (Pl. IX.).
Plate IX.—On this plate are various objects illustrating the art of the reindeer-hunters of the Magdalénien period. No. 1 shows a portion of a reindeer-horn with an incised rude representation of a prone man, apparently in the act of throwing a spear at a male auroch. The hands are imperfectly drawn, the body is covered with hair, and a cord, possibly attached to the head of a harpoon, falls behind the legs. This specimen was found at Laugerie Basse (Col. M.-G.). Nos. 2 and 14 are portions of lance-points representing human hands with only four fingers. Nos. 3, 4, and 5 are from La Madeleine (Col. L. and C.). One (3) represents a bâton de commandement, having a stag with complex antlers incised on it. Another (4) is a plate of the cannon-bone of a reindeer, with incised figures of bovine animals, which might have been used like Fig. 14, as the paint-box of an artist working in colours. No. 5 represents a truncated dart ornamented with flowers, and what looks like the outstretched skin of a fox. No. 6 is from Les Eyzies, and shows a ruminant having a spear thrust into its breast. No. 7 shows portion of a bevelled dart-head from Laugerie Basse with a sequence of half-fledged birds. No. 8, also from Laugerie Basse, shows a dart propeller (propulseur à crochet), made of reindeer-horn and ornamented with a horse's head and an elongated fore part of a deer. Nos. 9, 10, and 15 (Laugerie Basse) represent the well-extended antlers of a reindeer, an otter eating a salmon, and a hare, sculptured in ivory. No. 11, unmistakably showing the hind portion of a pig, is from the Kesslerloch cave in Switzerland (after Konrad Merk). On the canine of a bear (12), from the cave of Duruthy, a seal is engraved. No. 13 is portion of the palm antler of a reindeer bearing the incised figure of a horned animal, probably intended for an ibex.
