Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 241
traordinary coinci-dence, the figure became evolved independently in the OldWorld and the New, or that in both it had a commonorigin of astounding antiquity. However, there is a prob-ability that it was introduced to the Indians by the earlySpaniards, with whom it would have been a familiarsymbol.… … Fig. 131.—Indian Labyrinth Figurefrom Eighteenth-century SpanishManuscript. (After Cotton.) Park. This, it will be seen (Fig. 132), bears no likenessto the conventional design, but is merely an asymmetricalmeandering groove somewhat similar in appearance tothe braided designs often seen on modish…
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