Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 33
NAMENT. perfect instruments, and at least cultured in the knowledgeof drawing and carving, which they did, as can be judgedby the illustration given, with astonishing ability. Theaccurate forms of animals, as horses, mammoths, bears,aurochs, elks, reindeers, fish, seals, &c., and even… … Fig. JA. —Human and Animal Form, drawn by Bushmen of South Africa. rior to the latter, as may be seen by comparing theirrespective efforts (Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5). The Cave-men disappeared from Britain after it becamean island. Similar discoveries of implements and otherremains in Europe and Britain…
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