Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 456
scos we find not less than eighty POLYCHROME PAINTING 4-21 figures, in some cases partly covered by a fine sheen of stalag-mitic limestone; these include 49 bison, 4 reindeer, 4 horses, and15 mammoths. The bison polychromes have suffered somewhatin color and are far less brilhant than those at… … Fig. 224. Detail of the engraving of the central group of figures on the left wall decora-tion of the Gakrie des Fresques (see Fig. 223), showing the etching of a mammothsuperposed upon that of a bison, superposed in turn upon those of a reindeer and ofa wild boar. These figures are on different…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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