Abstract
MR. L. PÉRINGUEY, in the eighteenth volume of the Transactions of one South African Philosophical Society, continues his report on rock-engravings of animals and the human figure. The examples now described are superior in finish and artistic merit to those hitherto known. We have no longer mere lines or outlines produced by rough pointing or punching; the technique is more elaborate, and the figures are drawn in relief. Thus, in the illustration (Fig. 1) of an elephant fleeing before a hunter armed with a bow and arrow, the lines in relief represent the skin corrugation; and the position of the ears, the hanging lower lip, the curves c. the back and, legs, are all strikingly artistic, and suggest keen observation on the part of the sculptor. Equally artistic is the1 representation of the buffalo (Fig. 2), the figure of which is fully hollowed out, the attitude of the animal and the twitching of its tail being full of life.
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Rock-Engravings in South Africa . Nature 80, 411 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080411a0
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