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The Cliff dwellers of the Mesa Verde, southwestern Colorado : their pottery and implements (1893)

Nordenskiöld, Gustaf, 1868-1895, Morgan, Derec Llwyd · Stockholm ; Chicago : Norstedt · leaf 155

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FIG. 52. It is probable that among the cliff-dwellers the meander originated in various ways. Of the almost innumerable combinations of lines from which the meander may be developed by the repetition of slight modifications, several were probably in actual use. I have above cited an example… … FIG. 53. fig. 51:2 was developed from 50: 3. When once the development had taken this course, it advanced in the same direction, giving birth to more and more intricate meanders (fig. 51: 3). I might give further examples, illustrating meanders more or less fully developed; but I should then be…

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