ILLUSTRATIONS
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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” |
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| “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 |
“They wished they might have his cave for a home”