ABSTRACT
The economic position of the Gonrs is that of stone-cutting labourers living at a peasant level. Their main occupation is stone-cutting—the extraction of sandstone blocks from the hills and the shaping of them into paving-stones and grinding-stones. The economic position of Barhis is only that of journeymen carpenters living at a peasant level. Their main occupation is the making of posts and planks for doors, legs for string beds, ploughs, carts, chairs and the handles of hammers and mattocks. The making of the images was at most only a casual variation in a pinched and arduous routine. The series of images mounting lonely guard on the area fortifies Bir Kuar in his sense of style. A style that can use the tube of a tree as the natural basis for a geometric vertical form is much more suitable than a style which needs a naturalistic preliminary.
