I came across an
anthropologist called Dean Snow and he started looking into handprints in
caves, and like many other people I just assumed that handprints in caves
belonged to men. This is because of the other cave paintings that I have come
across of male hunting diagrams and I just linked this to the handprints. But
Snow had done some research on the measurements of male and female hands, such
as a woman’s index finger is genuinely longer in comparison to men’s.
Another
reason why I had in mind that the handprints might have belonged to men is because; this might sound silly, but of the film brother bear. The film is about three
brothers that are in a tribe and look to the spirits for guidance, and the spirits
send them individual totems to help them become the best man that they can be
for there people. When they are seen as a worthy man they earn there place to
mark a handprint on the wall with there ancestors
My favourite moment of the film is right at the end when Kenai who was man that was transferred into a bear (by the spirits) realises what his path in life is from his own reckless actions. Without knowing this himself he revels his dedication to his totem and urns the honour of becoming a man, even as a bear and gets to put his paw print on the wall with his ancestors.
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