most barbaric art; and the
action was more considered than the form.

(A) In the round there are in the earlier graves female figures of two
races, the Bushman type and European, both probably representing
servants or slaves. These have the legs always united, sloping to a
point without feet (Plate I. fig. 1); the arms are only stumps. The face
has a beaky nose and some indication of eyes. Upon the surface is
colouring; red for the Bushman, with black whisker though female; white
for the European type, with black tattoo patterns. Other female figures
are modelled in a paste, upon a stick, and the black hair is sometimes
made separately to fit on as a wig over the red head, showing that wigs
were then used. Male figures are generally only heads in the earlier
times. Tusks with carved heads (Plate I. figs. 2, 3) are the earliest,
beginning at S.D. (sequence date) 33;[16] heads on the top of combs are
found, from S.D. 42 to the close of such combs in the fifties. All of
these heads show a high forehead and a pointed beard; and such
expression as may be discovered is grave but not savage. In later times
whole figures of ivory, stone and clay are found, with the legs united,
and the arms usually joined to the body. A favourite way of indicating
the eyes was by drilling two holes and inserting a white shell bead in
each. The figures of animals (Plate I. figs. 4, 5) are quite as rude as
the human figures: they only summarily indicate the mature, and often
hardly express the genus. They are most usual on combs and pins; but
sacred animals are also found. The lion is the most usual (Plate I. fig.
7), but the legs are roughly marked, if at all: the leonine air is
given, but the attitude is more distinct than the form. The hawk (Plate
I. fig. 6) is modelled in block without any legs. The slate palettes in
the form of animals are even more summary, and continually degraded
until they lost all trace of their origin. There are also curious
figures of animals chipped in flint, which show some character, but no
detail.

(B) Reliefs with animal figures belong to the later part of the
prehistoric age. The relief is low, and the form hatched across with
lines (Plate I. fig. 8), a style copied from drawing. There is more
animation than in the round figures. At the close of this age the
fashion of long processions of animals appears (Plate I. fig. 9); some
character is shown in these, but no sense of action.

(C) Drawing is found from th