IDNO

LS.75478.MCBUR

Description

Composite image of thirteen drawings of differing animals, including, rhinoceros, bear, cave-lion, boar, bison, and boar.
The photographs are numbered 1 - 13, and is possibly part of a series from "Tracings from palaeolithic art, mostly from south-west France and northern Spain.
(After Breuil and others)"?.

Place

W Europe; France; Les Eyzies; Font-de-Gaume; Dordogne; Les Combarelles

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?After Breuil, Henri

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

McBurney Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.75472.MCBUR to LS.75483.MCBUR were found inside the wooden slide box now numbered C353/.
The box in which these lantern slides are found originally contained slides of Ivor Evans from Malaysia.

Publication: The top left image published in 'Proceedings of the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology of Monaco, 1906, vol. 1, p. 392. Reproduced in MacCurdy 1910.', and captioned: "Font-de-Gaume Cave. Drawing of Rhinoceros tichorhinus. Drawing by H. Breuil and L. Capitan." [JD 20/01/2026]

Publication: The top right image is published in Lankester, Ray, 1920. 'Secrets of Earth and Sea' (The MacMillan Company, New York), and captioned: "Fig. 20.—Bear: engraved on stalagmite, from the cave of Teyjat near Eyzies. (Small size.)." [JD 20/01/2026]