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Esquimaux carving

Esquimaux carving.jpg ThumbnailsGroup of reindeer drawn upon a piece of slateThumbnailsGroup of reindeer drawn upon a piece of slateThumbnailsGroup of reindeer drawn upon a piece of slateThumbnailsGroup of reindeer drawn upon a piece of slateThumbnailsGroup of reindeer drawn upon a piece of slate

The first of these illustrations is perhaps the best, as it is certainly the most delicate and graceful of all the fragments yet discovered. It represents the profile of the head and shoulder of an ibex, carved in low relief upon a piece of the palm of a reindeer’s antler. So exact and well characterised is the sculpture, that naturalists have no hesitation in deciding the animal to be an ibex of the Alps, and not of the Pyrenees.