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 294
should be no, I could not recognise in itany decisive evidence. Our previous investigations sufficeof themselves to prove that the forms of development ofthe old primitive images, highly conventionalised, must ^ II. Stolpe, UiveckUngsflh-eteelser i Nahirfolkcns Oniaiueulik,Ymer, 1890. Translated… … have a symbolic significance. They symboUse, they standin place of, the primitive image. They are to be con-sidered as a sort of cryptograph. Bymeans of perpetual reiteration of certainornamental elements, they suggest thedivinity to whose service the decoratedimplement was in some way dedicated.A…
Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive
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