Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · [New York] : The Museum · leaf 64
als are well-known appearances to be traced back to the cock-ornament. Thenext pair of spirals shows the pronounced figure of a fish, its two sides runningparallel to each other, its head not being especially marked off, as in that seenin Fig. 2 of this plate. The left side ends in a fish-tail, to… … Fig. 12 offers a very interesting pattern as showing the predominating,all-governing influence of the fish-ornament, for the sake of which all other formsare remodelled. In a the cock is clearly to be recognized as a bird ; its beak,however, assumes the form of a fish-tail. On the left, to its…
Decoration and ornament -- Amur River Valley (China and Russia)
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