The further process of differentiation of the profile from the primitive
full-face scheme is effected in part by adding other features than the
nose to the contour. Thus a notch for the mouth appears in some cases
below the nasal projection (Fig. 28 (_a_)), though the grinning front
view is apt to hold its own pertinaciously. A beard, especially the
short ‘imperial,’ as it used to be called, shooting out like the nose
from the side, also helps to mark profile.[259] Less frequently an ear,
and in a very few cases, hair, are added on the hinder side of the head,
and assist the impression of profile. Adjuncts, especially the pipe, and
sometimes the peak of the cap, contribute to the effect, as in the
accompanying drawing by a boy of six (Fig. 28 (_b_); _cf._ above, Figs.
6 (_a_), 18 (_c_), and 24 (_b_), pp. 341, 349, 354).[260]
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Footnote 259:
I take the long line in Fig. 27 to represent the manly beard.
Footnote 260:
In rare cases the pipe sticks out from the side of what is clearly the
primitive full face. Schoolcraft gives an example of this, too, in
Indian drawing, _op. cit._, pt. ii., pl. 41.
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[Illustration: Fig. 28 (_a_).]
[Illustration: Fig. 28 (_b_).]
At the same time the front features themselves undergo modification. The
big grinning mouth is dropped and one of the eyes omitted. The exact way
in which this occurs appears to vary with different children. In certain
cases it is clear that the front view of the mouth cavity disappears,
giving place to a rough attempt to render a side view, before the second
eye is expunged; and in one case I have detected a survival of the two
eyes in what otherwise would be a consistent profile drawing of head and
figure (Fig. 29 (_a_); _cf._ above, p. 349, Fig. 18 (_b_)). This late
survival of the two eyes agrees with the results of observation on the
drawings of the uncultured adult. One of General Pitt-Rivers’ African
boys inserted the two eyes in a profile drawing. Von den Steinen’s
Brazilians drew by preference the full face, so that we cannot well
judge as to how they would have treated the profile. Yet it is curious
to note that in what is clearly a drawing of a side view of a fish one
of these Brazilians introduces both eyes (Fig. 29 (_b_)). The insertion
of two eyes is said by some never to occur in the drawings of savages on
stone, hide, etc.[261] But I have come across what seems to me a clear
example of it, and this in a fairly good sketch of a profile view of the
human figure on an Indian vase (Fig. 29 (_c_)).[262] Yet this late
retention of the two eyes in profile, though the general rule in
children’s drawings, is liable to exceptions. Thus I have found a child
retaining the big front view of the mouth along with a single eye.
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Footnote 261:
Ricci’s remarks seem to me to come to this, _op. cit._, p. 25.
Footnote 262:
From _The Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1880-1, p. 406.
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[Illustration: Fig. 29 (_a_).]
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