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I am always fascinated to see basic tools from thousands of years ago that show the artist at work. I stumbled upon this image as I was researching a great collection of encaustic mummy portraits from the British Museum collection. They currently have a show on artwork from the Ice Age some 40,000-10,000 years old!
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art/about_the_exhibition.aspx
The oldest puppet or doll: an articulated figure
made of mammoth ivory
On loan from Moravian Museum, Anthropos
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