[270]. From Maspero’s Dawn of Civilisation, p. 469.
[271]. This I take to be the meaning of this odd arrangement.
[272]. Cf. Barnes, loc. cit.
[273]. Mr. Cooke kindly informs me that in an early Greek drawing in the First Vase Room in the British Museum, the eye of a fish is placed in the back part of the mouth.
[274]. An example is given by Schoolcraft, op. cit., pt. iv., pl. 18.
[275]. Line drawings of animals as well as of men are found in savage art: see, for example, Schoolcraft, op. cit., pt. iv., pl. 18. Mr. Cooke gives examples from drawings of the Trojans. Hence line drawing may, as he infers, be the primitive mode.
[276]. This is the way in which Mr. Cooke, who sends me these two drawings, explains them to me. The beak (?) in Fig. 45 [(b)] is added to the contour, as is the human nose in a few cases.
[277]. Cf. Ricci, op. cit., Fig. 21 (p. 27).
[278]. Op. cit., pl. 2; cf. pl. 6, where a drawing from Siberia with the same mode of treatment is given.
[279]. Op. cit., pt. iv, pl. 31 (p. 251).