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Representative art
87
We have also shown examples of the geometric, ornamental art
of the Bushmen (fig 8, p. 23); however, we do not know whether
it has a symbolic meaning. Their ornamental art is very meagre
because they have so little that can become the subject of orna-
mentation.
It seems more than likely that man of later paleolithic time whose
implements are quite on the same level as those of modern primi-
tive tribes, who adorned his body and who used geometrical orna-
ments on his bone implements, decorated also his clothing and other
perishable possessions of which no trace remains. If we imagine
the remains of the modern Indians of the plains, or those of
Australians exposed for thousands of years to the wet climate of
Europe, nothing would remain to give us an insight into the com-
plexity of their culture and into the existence of their symbolic, that
is, ideoplastic art.
87
We have also shown examples of the geometric, ornamental art
of the Bushmen (fig 8, p. 23); however, we do not know whether
it has a symbolic meaning. Their ornamental art is very meagre
because they have so little that can become the subject of orna-
mentation.
It seems more than likely that man of later paleolithic time whose
implements are quite on the same level as those of modern primi-
tive tribes, who adorned his body and who used geometrical orna-
ments on his bone implements, decorated also his clothing and other
perishable possessions of which no trace remains. If we imagine
the remains of the modern Indians of the plains, or those of
Australians exposed for thousands of years to the wet climate of
Europe, nothing would remain to give us an insight into the com-
plexity of their culture and into the existence of their symbolic, that
is, ideoplastic art.