Bushmen Rock Figures

Abstract

THE comparisons made by Prof. Dart (NATURE, March 21, p. 425) between Bushman paintings and Asiatic figures will need much wider knowledge than we at present have on our side. The turn-over cap called “Phrygian” belonged to Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon, and to men of Dabig between the Euphrates and Gulf of Alexandretta (see “Gates of Balawat”). It is seen about the Mediterranean now, and is much like the cap of the London draymen fifty years ago. The cap with the long tail is not only Babylonian, but is the typical head-dress of the Hittite and Syrian god Sutekh. Both of these forms may have a much wider spread, and the Bushman might have been figuring a liripipe hood of five centuries ago.