Illustrated Sisir September 1925

In the cave of paviland which opens on the face of a steep limestone cliff about a mile east of Rhossilly on the coast of Gower Wales the earliest discovery of a member of the Cro-Magnon race was made. [...] One of the skeletons of Brunn found at a depth of 12 feet below the surface of the `losess ' was lavishly adorned with tooth shells perforated stone discs and bone ornaments made from the ribs of rhinoceros or the mammoth and from the teeth of the ma" moth ; associated with these was an ivory idol apparently of a male figure of which only the head the torso and the left arm remain The skele [...] Another practice soon arose that of making a life-size portrait statue of the dead man's head and of placing it by the side of the actual body in the burial chambe;.(2) A further development was the making of a statue of the whole body. [...] "In studying the easterly migration of the custom of mumification " he says "it is quite certain that the main stream of the wanderers who carried the knowledge to the east must have set out from the East African coast because a whole series of modifications of the Egyptian method which were introduced in the Soudan and further south are also found in Indonesia Polynesia and America. [...] The secret of the invention lies back in the manipulation of the camera.` It lies largely in the knowledge of the chemcal combinations that go toward securing the right effects.