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_A map of the Cave-men’s country_ Frontispiece
“_They wished they might have his cave for a home_” 14
“_Sabre-tooth was going away_” 19
“_She stood trembling so that she could hardly speak_” 22
_The Feast_ 37
_The Flood_ 76
“_The old man arose in the silence, and thus he spoke to his
people_” 84
“_Then the old man and Sharpeyes took leave of their kinfolk
and started out on the long journey_” 91
“_They rushed upon him with their knives and spears_” 98
“_They carried him into the cave_” 102
“_They watched the fire dart up toward the sky_” 105
“_They shouted praises to the fire god_” 119
“_They broke off slender branches_” 124
_Making splints for baskets_ 127
“_They rested the strap upon the forehead_” 141
_A mammoth hunt_ 145
“_It was here that he showed Firekeeper how to make fire_” 151
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_Firekeeper carrying wood_ 25
_A flint point_ 28
_A hunting knife_ 28
_Fastening the shaft to a branch_ 30
_Sabre-tooth pinned to the ground_ 31
_The two large sabre teeth_ 33
_A stone hammer and stone ax_ 34
_A gourd_ 36
_A marrow spoon_ 38
_Children carrying moss and leaves_ 42
_Strongarm_ 45
_A weighted strap drill_ 48
_A bow drill_ 49
_Making bones into weapons_ 51
_Chipping the stones_ 52
_A hammer stone, with bone handle_ 52
_Putting handles on the spearheads_ 53
_A hammer made by Sharpeyes_ 53
_A handle made of a forked branch_ 54
_The women dressing skins_ 55
_Two sides of a scraper_ 56
_A bone awl_ 59
_A buckle_ 59
_A skin cradle_ 62
_How they rocked the babies_ 63
_A birch bark basket_ 68
_A basket with rim_ 70
_Cave-men watching the river_ 73
_The cave_ 78
_How the sandal was worn_ 88
_A sandal and a tool bag_ 89
_A gourd_ 94
_A rhinoceros_ 108
_Making fire with a strap drill_ 112
_A drill_ 114
_The hearth of a fire drill_ 114
_Strongarm making fire_ 115
_Cave-men dancing around the fire_ 116
_Pounding the stems_ 129
_Woven splints_ 131
_Firm and strong weaving_ 132
_A strong basket_ 133
_Methods of weaving and coloring baskets_ 135, 136, 137, 138
_How the Cave-men carried baskets_ 139
_A basket with a handle_ 140
_A pad for the forehead_ 140
_A bone whistle_ 143
_Returning from the feast_ 148, 149
_A bow drill made into a fire drill_ 153
_A fire drill_ 154
_A spearhead_ 157
_Mammoths_ 158
_Making a fire drill_ 183
[Illustration: “_They wished they might have his cave for a home_”]