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A study of the textile art in its relation to the development of form and ornament (1888)

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933, Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956. fmo, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo, Huntington Free Library. fmo · Washington, D.C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 62

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tween the mandibles, must run across the bill, totally at variance with the truth; in this case the tongue is "so represented, the light vertical band seen in the cut being a yellow stripe. It will be seen that the two representations are very unlike each other, not because of differences in the… … Fig. 317. Figure of a bird woven in interlaced wicker at one side of the center. It is clear, therefore, from the preceding observations that the con- vention of woven life forms varies with the kind of weaving, with the shape of the object, with the position upon the object, and with the shape of…

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