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developed art, not that they started art. Australasia is the home of one of the great autoch-thonous arts of the world. It belongs to the sameartistic family as Negro art and Amerind art, and it isclosely related to the surviving fragments of what wasprobably the prehistoric Asiatic art. There are… … Fig. 6. African man £& fi. with pelele and with ax hafted thru body. 36 ART AND MAN. Melanesian art is found at its purest in NewGuinea, New Caledonia, and New Ireland. It extendsto Fiji and Australia and is a main factor thruoutMalaya; it spreads northward to Formosa, perhaps toYezo, and may…
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