Evolution in art : as illustrated by the life-histories of designs (1902)
Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 · London : W. Scott ; New York : C. Scribner's · leaf 119
od impressing itself on the soft tapa, of socutting the mallets as to produce a regularly grooved surface,and of colouring the blocks, and lastly of making the greatprinting blocks on which the pattern stands up in relief,which were made in Fiji. Sometimes the lines in relief ofprinting blocks are… … Fig. 51. —Sketches of tapa belts from Kerepunu, British New Guinea;about three-quarters natural size. what is know^n in this country as nature-printing hasbeen independently arrived at. What has happened in the Great Ocean apparently alsotook place in New Guinea. In the south-eastern peninsulathe…
Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive
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