Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 37
we find horns upon the head of both male andfemale figures. Juno Sospita is twice represented bystatues in the Vatican Museum with the skin and hornsof a goat on her head,23 precisely in the same positionas those of a bison, to be seen on many North Americanchiefs, such as Mahtawopah, or the… … peekiss. (Figs. 7,8.) Who will ven-ture to deny thatthe same idea istypified in theseexamples of thegoat and bisonshorns worn as a*^ head-dress, takenIjiJ from two differenthemispheres, sepa-Jj rated by so manycenturies in time,and still more byso great a differ- ence in civilisation ? At Durban…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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