M0004767: Cave painting depicting a man masked as a bison playing the nose flute.

Date:
September 1936
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/38/60
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M0004767: Cave painting depicting a man masked as a bison playing the nose flute. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced Oct 2021: Illustration of Homme masque en Bison jourant de la flute

Description

Illustration of a man masked as a bison playing the nose flute and following two reindeer, one of several paintings found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères, Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège. Image taken from 'Un dessin de la grotte des Trois frères (Montesquieu-Avantès) Ariège' Breuil, Henri published in 'Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres', 1930, 74-3, pp. 261-264. Slide number: 1688

Publication/Creation

September 1936

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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