The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03

more elaborate pottery and the use Of
metals for making rude tools. Hard
stone was now cut and shaped, diorite
onyx and rock crystal jars and vases
were made with so much art that their
highly polished surfaces astonisn the
modern d1scoverer. 1t seems as If the
ue of the diamond or some other hard
substance must have been known by
the people who followed out some of
these vases, on the inside Of which are
still to be seen the marks OF the mt
ting implements. It was found that
some Of the tombs we're paved with q
kind of rose-colored marble, not native
to Egypt, and therefore this must have
been imported from some distant coun
try, showing that the men of that time
travelled and believed in imported goods
much as we do.
Evidence OF Progress
From stage to stage the perfection of
the workmanship and the care display
ed in characterization increase constant
~. The primitive geometrical designs
on the earliest pottery give way to
drawings from life, and there are rep
reservations of ostriches so lifelike as
to be easily recognized: a carving of a
ducks head in hard schist in which the
shading of the plumage is brought out.
and carving of a human hand in the
same hard material, where the lines of
q.
wood carving these old artists were en-
perts. They took the ebony which they
had to import and carved perfect stat
uettes or lions. or CT Nubian women,
which can be identified as such by the
low forehead, angular face, small eyes,
prominent cheek bones, large mouth.
thick lips and hair parted into a num-
Der Of tresses. Here is a frog carved
out of diorite, as unmstakeable as if it
had been done by a modern artist.
The men and women were alike fond
of personal adornment, for beads of
clay covered with blue enamel. OF car
nelian. amethyst emerald and rock
crystal. all pierced for stringing, the
strings having long since rotted away.
were found in large numbers Here too
were ivory and wooden instruments
with which the eyelids and brows were
colored red or black to make the eyes
appear larger. Vanity is then at least
$4,000 year old.
The furniture was only found in bits.
for the woodwork had generally rptted
away and all that remained was the
ivory legs OF sofas-the most remark
able finds made These were so larpe
that 1t is certain they must have been
made Of the tusks of the hippopotamus.
That this animal was hunted by the
early E egyptians is we'll established by
wall paintings, but the proof furnished
by the finding of their tusks is far more
conclusive, carrying the custom back
several centuries The manner in which
these legs are carved to represent the
legs of oxen is one OF the marvels of all
who have had the good fortunte to see
them.
Art OF a High Type.
The work of the jewelers. of this early
age is by no means primitive. for there
are bronze bracelets, cunningly turned
into serpents. alloys of silver and gold,
copper and brass and other tools of the
earlier stage when pure copper was
used. To illustrate how near akin man
kind has been through these myriads
of years it is only necessary to mention
the discovery in one of the tombs of
what must have been a baby's nursing
bottle in the long time ago 1t was
an vase, with hole in the side into
which bit of cloth might be inserted
that the baby might draw his milk
from the vase. Is there anything new |
under the sun?
Besides the common pots for kitchen |
use and the fine vases for the parlor |
there were discovered pieces of wood |
wonderfully inlaid with pieces OF color |
ed glass, showing that the secret of |