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shows a nude female standing erect with a similar but smaller nude
female on her head (fig. 532)1, took this curious group to represent
a mother-goddess and her daughter2, compared the like arrange-
ment of an Indo-Chinese father-god with his child (fig. S33)3, and
suggested that the same method of figuration—presupposing a

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Fig- 532. Fig. 533.

GebuE* Gerhard Vber die Kunst der Phonicier Berlin 1848 pp. 14, 37 ('Vielleicht als
sii,^ ,e"ler Gottheit zu fassen,' etc.) pi. 4, 3 = my fig. 532 (id. Gcsammelte akadanische
I'Art "ge" undkleine Schriftm Berlin 1868 ii. 13 pi. 44, 3), Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de
ses ' nS' 332 ('Ce que le sculpteur s'est propose de montrer en disposant ainsi
tlu p0 nages, c'est que la deesse est une deesse mere ; la figurine qui forme le sommet
^Itkret^' ° ''en^P' Par lequel secontinuera la chainedesgenerations'), H.T. Bossert
lH% ^a "erl'n 1921 p. 30 fig. 116 (photo), id.2 Berlin 1923 p. 14 fig. 15 (photo),
on p 5^r,"es\U''geschichte der bildcnden Kunst in Europa3 Wien 1925 p. 62 with fig. 8
Uilc( 1 Wle an den Wappenpfahlen der Indianer Nordwestamerikas und der Polynesier
&il<hve ^ au^erstal:>en der Battaks. Der genealogische Charakter dieses barbarischen
^orde ^S 'St vo'"i°mmen deutlich'), V. Miiller Friihe Plastik in Griechenland und
From p'e" AuSsburg 1929 p. i4 n. 27, C. Picard La sculpture Paris 1935 i. 95 fig. 13.

2 c aros- Height: 0-213".

3 J PDGerhard and l'errot—Chipiez locc. citt.

after ]j •^m'\er.in ^Anthropologic 1890 p. 352 with fig. 14 on p. 358 ( = my fig. 533)
Alusen gliani u" Viag«io a Nlas Milano 1890 p. 245 fig. 48 'Un idolo' in the

cu Leida.