Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 451
ted bythe subglacial streams; on these broad, sUghtly concave panelsof a very Hght ochre color are drawuigs of a large number ofbison and of horses, as fresh and brilliant as if they were thework of yesterday; the outlines drawn with black oxide of man-ganese and grease on the smooth stone resemble… … Fig. 213. Engraved and painted horse, apparently of the Celtic type andwith heavy winter coat, from the cavern of Niaux. There is a mark behindthe right shoulder which has been interpreted as the sign of an arrow orspear head. After Cartailhac and Breuil. (Compare Fig. 174.) drawn majestically with…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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