Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Museum or the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute is rich in Zapotecan sculpture, Ooxocan ware and feather-mosaics from Mexico, particularly rejoices in several treasures: 1) the tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...
...recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal elegance of the Altamira bison; the grandeur of outline in the Norwegian rock engravings of bear, elk and whale; the cornucopian fecundity of Rhodesian animal landscapes; the kinetic fury of the East Spanish huntsmen; the spontaneous ease with which the South African draftsmen mastered the difficult silhouets of moving creatures: these are achievements which living...
...first expedition to North Africa in 1912, Professor Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings. It was already known that in Magdalenian times some artist had smeared iron oxide on a cavern wall at Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned a lively bison, with a fine high hump, muscular forelegs, a head set well enough to do justice to contemporary Animal Artist John Raltenbury Skeaping (TIME, May 3). In Khotsa Cave, 5,000 mi. from Spain in Basutoland, South Africa, Anthropologist Frobenius found the Altamira bison's twin. The long-legged silhouet...
...wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...
Colorado, In 1926 a party of diggers from Denver went south to excavate for fossils near Folsom, N. Mex. Among the bones of extinct bison they turned up two curious flint implements which later attained fame as the first "Folsom points." Obviously not arrowheads but possibly spearheads or darts, they were broad, flat blades with slightly rounded points, chiefly distinguished from other primitive weapons by deep troughs on each face. In subsequent years typical Folsom points were found all over the Midwest, as far east as Pennsylvania, as far north as New Hampshire, as far south as Georgia. The University...