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The grammar of ornament (1856)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875, Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893, Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877, Bedford, Francis, 1816-1894, lithographer, Day & Son., publisher · London : Day and Son, Limited · leaf 26

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ORNAMENT OF SAVAGE TRIBES. stripes and plaids, would have continued the bands or rings round the handle across the blade. The New Zealander’s instinct taught him better. He desired not only that his paddle should be strong, … Club, Eastern Archipelago. * Captain Cook and other voyagers repeatedly notice the taste and ingenuity of the islanders of the Pacific and South Seas : instancing especially cloths, painted “ in such an endless variety of figures that one might sxxppose they borrowed their patterns from a mercer’s…

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