[146] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, p. 657.
[147] L’Anthr., xiv, 1903, pp. 258, 263-5; Comptes rendus ... de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1903, pp. 1536-7.
[148] E. Lartet and H. Christy, Reliquiae Aquitanicae, p. 209.
[149] L’Anthr., xv, 1904, p. 174.
[150] Ib., v, 1894, p. 146.
[151] Bull. et mém. de la Soc. d’anthr., 5e sér. iii, 1902, p. 771. It is remarkable that Ezekiel (viii. 10-11), speaking of seventy of ‘the ancients of the house of Israel’ who were worshipping in a court, says that he saw therein ‘every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts ... pourtrayed upon the wall round about’. These were ‘unclean’ animals, which were not to be eaten. Cf. A. Lang, Custom and Myth, 2nd ed., 1885, p. 115.
M. Reinach also insists (L’Anthr., xiv, 1903, pp. 264-5) that the so-called sceptres, or bátons de commandement—engraved and perforated instruments of reindeer-horn—which have been found in French palaeolithic caves, were used in magical ceremonies; whereas it has been proved by Dr. O. Schoetensack (ib., xii, 1901, pp. 140-4) that they were merely dress-fasteners similar to those which are used by the Eskimos.
[152] See A. Lang, Custom and Myth, 1885, pp. 294, 296.
[153] L’Anthr., xvii, 1906, p. 293.
[154] See p. 34, supra.