Fig. 40 (d).
Fig. 40 (f).
Fig. 41.
One other point needs to be referred to before we leave the human figure, viz., the treatment of accessories. As pointed out, the child when left to himself is for the most part oblivious of dress, though the triangular cape-like form of the body may be a rude attempt to delineate a clothed figure. In general he cares merely to crown his figure with the hat of dignity, and, at most, to ornament the body with a row of buttons. Even when he grows sophisticated and attempts clothes he still shows his primitive respect for the natural frame. A well-known anthropologist tells me that his little boy on watching his mother draw a lady insisted on her putting in the legs before shading in the petticoats. In General Pitt-Rivers’ collection there is a drawing by a boy of ten which in clothing the figure naïvely indicates the limbs through their covering (Fig. [41]). This agrees with what Von den Steinen tells us of the way the Brazilian Indians drew him and his companions.
Fig. 42 (a).
Fig. 42 (b).