ILLUSTRATIONS
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| A map of the Cave-men’s country | [Frontispiece] |
| “They wished they might have his cave for a home” | [14] |
| “Sabre-tooth was going away” | [19] |
| “She stood trembling so that she could hardly speak” | [22] |
| The Feast | [37] |
| The Flood | [76] |
| “The old man arose in the silence, and thus he spoke to his people” | [84] |
“Then the old man and Sharpeyes took leave of their kinfolk and started out on the long journey” | [91] |
| “They rushed upon him with their knives and spears” | [98] |
| “They carried him into the cave” | [102] |
| “They watched the fire dart up toward the sky” | [105] |
| “They shouted praises to the fire god” | [119] |
| “They broke off slender branches” | [124] |
| Making splints for baskets | [127] |
| “They rested the strap upon the forehead” | [141] |
| A mammoth hunt | [145] |
| “It was here that he showed Firekeeper how to make fire” | [151] |
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| Firekeeper carrying wood | [25] |
| A flint point | [28] |
| A hunting knife | [28] |
| Fastening the shaft to a branch | [30] |
| Sabre-tooth pinned to the ground | [31] |
| The two large sabre teeth | [33] |
| A stone hammer and stone ax | [34] |
| A gourd | [36] |
| A marrow spoon | [38] |
| Children carrying moss and leaves | [42] |
| Strongarm | [45] |
| A weighted strap drill | [48] |
| A bow drill | [49] |
| Making bones into weapons | [51] |
| Chipping the stones | [52] |
| A hammer stone, with bone handle | [52] |
| Putting handles on the spearheads | [53] |
| A hammer made by Sharpeyes | [53] |
| A handle made of a forked branch | [54] |
| The women dressing skins | [55] |
| Two sides of a scraper | [56] |
| A bone awl | [59] |
| A buckle | [59] |
| A skin cradle | [62] |
| How they rocked the babies | [63] |
| A birch bark basket | [68] |
| A basket with rim | [70] |
| Cave-men watching the river | [73] |
| The cave | [78] |
| How the sandal was worn | [88] |
| A sandal and a tool bag | [89] |
| A gourd | [94] |
| A rhinoceros | [108] |
| Making fire with a strap drill | [112] |
| A drill | [114] |
| The hearth of a fire drill | [114] |
| Strongarm making fire | [115] |
| Cave-men dancing around the fire | [116] |
| Pounding the stems | [129] |
| Woven splints | [131] |
| Firm and strong weaving | [132] |
| A strong basket | [133] |
| Methods of weaving and coloring baskets | [135], [136], [137], [138] |
| How the Cave-men carried baskets | [139] |
| A basket with a handle | [140] |
| A pad for the forehead | [140] |
| A bone whistle | [143] |
| Returning from the feast | [148], [149] |
| A bow drill made into a fire drill | [153] |
| A fire drill | [154] |
| A spearhead | [157] |
| Mammoths | [158] |
| Making a fire drill | [183] |
“They wished they might have his cave for a home”