[250]. On the other hand I find the button dots sometimes omitted in the lower oval.
[251]. For examples, see Andree, op. cit., plate 3. Cf. the drawings of Von den Steinen’s Brazilians.
[252]. On the treatment of the arm in the drawings of savages, see in addition to the authorities already mentioned The Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1883-4, p. 42 ff.
[253]. The tendency which appears in more than one child’s drawings to put the right arm below the left is worth noting, though I am not prepared to offer an explanation of the phenomenon.
[254]. On the treatment of the arm, see Perez, op. cit., p. 190: cf. Ricci, op. cit., pp. 6-8. I have met with no case of the arms being attached to the legs such as Stanley Hall speaks of, Contents of Children’s Minds, p. 267.
[255]. See Andree’s collection, op. cit., ii., II.
[256]. Examples may be found in Catlin, Schoolcraft, Andree, Von den Steinen, and others, also in the drawings in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham. Von den Steinen gives a case of seven finger-strokes.
[257]. Unless this is a jocose suggestion of a tail.
[258]. This is hardly conclusive, as I find the triangular form used for the foot of a quadruped, presumably a horse.
[259]. I take the long line in Fig. 27 to represent the manly beard.