The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order (1918)
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und in such forms as the chamberednautilus, various spiriua, volutidae and numberless otherforms. (Pig.2) It is characteristic of a whoxe family of land shell-hearing creatures,typified by our common snails.Moreover, it is a habitual bod-ily configuration of many ani-mal forms such as worms… … Fig. 3. a conventionalization of the water and wind motion and for this 3 reason is often called the wave motif. 1- Goodyear, Grammar of the Lotus, 2- Holmes and Cushing, Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnoxogy,IV, 460. This same figure, in use by the Indians of the inter-ior of the continent, is…
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