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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 9288
- Date of Photo
- 1963
- World Region
- Europe
- Region
- Western Europe
- Country
- France
- State/Province
- Midi-Pyrenees
- Political Location
- Niaux
- Geographic Location
- Niaux Cave
- Archaeological Site Name
- Niaux Cave
- Period
- Late Magdalenian
- Culture
- Magdalenian
- Description
- Niaux, France. Bison with two black arrows. 10/11 Here once more we find evidence of a sense of creativity whence issued the development of the black horse seen in the proceeding slide, but this time applied to a bison. The animal, 39" long, rests on a rocky scale, securely positioned with its front feet on one side and its hind feet on the other.
- Two heavily defined ritual arrows, represented by converging lines, wound the bison in its right fla
- Image Categories
- Art: Cave painting
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- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4576 x 3142
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 14805
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-14805/14805
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"Niaux, France. Bison with two black arrows. 10/11 Here once more we find evidence of a sense of creativity whence issued the development of the black horse seen in the proceeding slide, but this time applied to a bison. The animal, 39" long, rests on a rocky scale, securely positioned with its front feet on one side and its hind feet on the other.; Two heavily defined ritual arrows, represented by converging lines, wound the bison in its right fla". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-14805/14805. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 25, 2024.