These results do not seem to agree with those of M. Passy or of Professor Barnes. M. Passy distinguishes in children’s drawings a front and a side view, both of which may be used by the same child at the same time. The former consists of nose and mouth of profile and eyes and ears of full face, the latter, of nose and mouth of profile with one eye and one ear; that is to say the two differ only in the number of eyes and ears (_Revue Philosophique_, 1891, p. 614 ff.). It would be interesting to know on how large an examination this generalisation is based. As suggested above, the occasional omission of the second eye and ear where both are commonly used can be explained without supposing the child to distinguish between profile and full face. Professor Barnes goes so far as to state with numerical exactness the relative frequency of profile and full face by children at different stages. He makes, however, no serious attempt to explain the criterion by which he would distinguish the two modes of representation (see his article, _Pedagogical Seminary_, ii., p. 455 ff.). ----- In this naïve childish art of profile drawing we have something which at first seems far removed from the art of uncivilised races. No doubt, as Grosse urges, the drawings of savages discovered in North America, Africa, Australia, are technically greatly superior to children’s clumsy impossible performances. Yet points of contact disclose themselves. If a North American Indian is incapable of producing the stupid scheme of a front view of the mouth and side view of the nose, he may, as we have seen, occasionally succumb to the temptation to bring both eyes into a profile drawing. We may see, too, how in trying to represent action, and to exhibit the active limb as he must do laterally, the untutored nature-man is apt to get odd results, as may be observed in the accompanying drawing by a North American Indian of a man shooting (Fig. 39 (_a_)).[269] This may be compared with the accompanying Egyptian drawing (Fig. 39 (_b_)).[270] ----- Footnote 269: Taken from Schoolcraft, vol. i., pl. 48. Footnote 270: From Maspero’s _Dawn of Civilisation_, p. 469. ----- [Illustration: Fig. 39 (_a_).] [Illustration: Fig. 39 (_b_).] [Illustration: Fig. 40 (_a_).] [Illustration: Fig. 40 (_b_).]