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 204
iands or the Woodlarks. Thetriangles above the crocodiles snouts are coloured black,those bounded by their jaws are painted red. There is yet another method of representing animalsw^hich consists in grouping them so as to tell a story, or, inother words, to make a picture. Grouped animals rarely… … Fig. io6.—Rubbing of part of the carved rim of a wooden bowl in theauthors collection. Probably from the Woodlarks or Tro-briands, British New Guinea. One-third natural size. The bulk of these pictures are representations of huntingscenes, and many incidents in the lives of these hyper-boreans are…
Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive
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