Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets (1903)
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923, James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 · Glorieta, N.M., Rio Grande Press · leaf 215
curvilinear scroll coming from someother art would be forced by the constructional character of the fabricinto square form, and the rectilinear meander or fret would result, asshown in Fig. 290. , The only criticism upon these words of Professor Holmes s that iwould make is that instead of the… … FIG. 295. GEOMETRIC SPIRAL FORM ON APACHEBASKET Mr. Holmes calls attention, however, to a self-evident proposition inthis discussion, viz.: that though the fret of basketry is a necessaryresult of attempting to compel the scroll into a woven form, the scrollmay easily have been evolved from the…
Indian baskets -- North America · Basket making
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