MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947 · Lancaster, Pa. : The New Era Printing Company · leaf 15
the polychrome ware, the alligator motives are in color; and this we now find to be likewise true of octopus motives. I realize that decorative and symbolic art is not to be demon- strated by mathematical formulae. That its manifestations are, however, subject to laws of growth, and one might add… … Fig. 157. — -The octopus appendage repeated eight times to form an ornamental pattern. Lost color ware. Yale collection, (f ) artist reflects alike his spiritual makeup and his environment, cultural as well as natural. Without insisting that the model for the design in figure 149 is an octopus, one…
Indians of Central America
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