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examples could be given from New Guinea, ^jnerica,Europe and elsewhere. In fact, one usually findsthe two figures associated together, and the con-Fig. 13. sequence is one of decadence, never the evolutionof spirals from circles. The intermediate stage has been aptlytermed a bastard spiral * by Dr… … F.g 164. — Cciljpg Uvtn a* feripicna of 1- Haddon, Op. Cit. 955 . 27 thinkable of the Greek Ionic artist before the Hellenistic per-iod. The tendency of the Greek artist,in the ascendant period ofGreeii art, was to seek refinement rather than reduce any of hisart to rule of thumb or cheap…
