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The decorative art of the Amur tribes (1902)

Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · [New York] : The Museum · leaf 74

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conventionalized. Around it, on both sides, two bands formingfour circles and two ellipses are symmetrically arranged. In every circle thereis a roe (Cervus capreolus L.), b ; two snakes (muiki), d; and a bird (c], calledtewerko, the species of which I have not yet been able to determine.…

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

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