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The decorative art of the Amur tribes (1902)

Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · [New York] : The Museum · leaf 144

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ing position. In this way also the endsof the yellow fishes depend upon the forms of the cocks, and are influenced bythem : the body of the fish a runs parallel to that of its cock, and terminates, likethat one, in a broad plane ; whereas b tapers into a point at the tail, like the greencock… … Decorative Art of the Amur Tribes. LAUFER, THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES. 75 cock-head, whose beak seizes a green fish. There are two fishes over the twococks a and b. That above a has the head green, the body blue ; that above b,the head yellow, and the body blue. In this case,…

Decoration and ornament -- Amur River Valley (China and Russia)

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