Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 202
a humanhead and with lines of greatpurity; other vessels were orna-mented with strongly built rude,and very summary sculptures inwhich the familiar silhouettes ofthe dog, the lion, the cock, theelephant, and the crocodile are in-dicated, sometimes with a strongtinge of irony. At this period,in the… … Polynesia. Sculpture in wood. {British Museum.) 176 MEDIEVAL ART equator, the deserts, and the forests of Central Africa,they lived in a healthier climate where stock raising ispossible, where wild beasts are rarer and game isabundant. They could, had they persisted, have givena decisive impetus to…
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