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 95
ealand is unique. Some of the NewZealand patterns (Fig. 43,and Plate VL, Fig. i::)certainly have a super-ficial resemblance to themore typical scroll pat-terns from the SouthEastern Archipelago ofNew Guinea, but thereis no ground for compar-ing them except for thiscasual resemblance. Thebird… … Fig. 43.—Rubbing of the decorationof a Maori flute, in the NaturalHistory Museum, Belfast; one-half natural size. mainly from tattooing, and possibly also partly from thedismemberment which so often befalls the conventionalisedcarvings of their ancestral figures. (Plate VI., Fig. 11.)When one looks…
Decoration and ornament · Art, Primitive
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