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The decorative art of the Amur tribes (1902)

Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · [New York] : The Museum · leaf 42

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bserve here the type of the two combatant footless cocks, whosebeaks, heads, eyes, long-extended bodies, and four tail-feathers each, are distinctlymarked. In the beak of each is an oval object, the two uniting into one figure.Under these cocks we observe a symmetrical geometric figure composed… … Decorativu Art of the Amur Tribes. LAUFER, THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES. 23 parts in the real image and its counterpart are designated by the same letters.The head of the cock a, for instance, is expressed by the spiral a ; the ovalb corresponds to the portion b, somewhat more extended,…

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

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