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Identifier: introductiontost00park (find matches)
Title: An introduction to the study of prehistoric art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857
Subjects: Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ (Plate VI). \ female statuette, recalling somewhat that discoveredat Brassempouy, but more complete, comes from the caveof Baousse-Rouss6 at Mentone. It is sculptured in ayellow slightly translucent steatite, and shows head, trunk,and thighs. The head is oval in shape, but no facialfeatures are shown. The forehead is retreating, and athick mass of hair falls on the neck much like that of somearchaic Greek statues (Fig. 53). Three or four otherstatuettes are said to have been found at Mentone, butgreat scepticism has been expressed regarding their authen-ticity and antiquity.^ At Willendorf, on the left bank of the Danube, about ^ Bas-Relief i Figuration Humaine de Iabri sous roche de Laussel (Dordogne), par G. Lalanne, LAiithrop., xxii. (1911), p. 257, Fig. i ;xxiii. (1912), p. 129, Figs. 1, 2, 6, 7. - Statuette dune Femme dans una grotte de Menton, par S.Reinach, LAnihrop., IX., p. 26, Plates I and U 3Cf. Bull. Soc. dAnihrop., Paris, 1898, p. 152 ; 1902, p. 773. PLATE V ^a(?^*-i-W^
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Bas-relief in limestone. Laussel, Dordogne. 46 centimetres high.(Frcm UAnthropologic.) PLATE VI

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