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 143
thic idea was beautifully ex-pressed. For example, Fig. 62 is the totem-badge MajorJ. W. Powell received from the Moki Pueblos of Arizonaas a token of his induction into the rain gens of that people.An earlier and simpler form of this occurs on a very ancientsacred medicine jar. (Fig. 63.) The sky… … to symbolise the storm, which was the objective of the exhortations, rituals, and ceremonials to which the jar was an appurtenance. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, in a more recent paper entitled A few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos,^ gives an interesting account ofthe Flute Ceremony.…
Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive
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