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| author | www-data <www-data@mail.pglaf.org> | 2026-02-01 20:16:35 -0800 |
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| committer | www-data <www-data@mail.pglaf.org> | 2026-02-01 20:16:35 -0800 |
| commit | 18ae012b93a59a64ab7a031cd66b35f7bcf55e5e (patch) | |
| tree | d53b088c4e9aa0009647e8b28409df41cdb63902 /77834-h | |
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Each +has been transcribed separately, with separate MP3 and MusicXML (.mxl) +files. A soprano voice is used for both.</p> + +<p class="noindent">Click on the audio player to hear the music in MP3 +format, or on the [MusicXML] link to download the notation. These links +may not work if you are reading this e-book in a format other than +HTML. The music files are the music transcriber's interpretation of the +printed notation. A translation has also been provided for the songs. +</p> + +<p class="noindent">Music transcription, translations and new original +cover art included with this eBook are granted to the public domain.</p> + +<p class="noindent">Footnotes have been moved to the bottom of the paragraph +where they appear, and in the HTML version are demarked with a dotted line.</p> + +<p class="noindent">More information and comments on minor changes to +the text are noted at the <a href="#ENDNOTE">end of the book</a>.</p> + +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"></div> + + +<p class="center fs175 lsp3"> +INSTITUTTET<br> +FOR SAMMENLIGNENDE<br> +KULTURFORSKNING +</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_001" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_001.jpg" alt="(Institute Logo)"> +</figure> + +<p class="center fs130 lsp1"> +SERIE B: SKRIFTER<br> +<br> +VIII<br> +<br> +FRANZ BOAS: PRIMITIVE ART<br> +<br> + +</p> +<p class="center p4"> +<br> +<span class="lsp1">OSLO 1927<br> + +<span class="fs70 lsp2">H. ASCHEHOUG & CO. (W. NYGAARD)</span><br> + +<span class="fs110">LEIPZIG <span class="pad20p">PARIS</span> + <span class="pad20p">LONDON</span></span></span> +<br> +<span class="fs60">OTTO HARRASSOWITZ <span class="pad10p">HONORÉ CHAMPION</span> + <span class="pad7p"> WILLIAMS & NORGATE, LTD.</span></span><br> +<span class="fs90">CAMBRIDGE, MASS.</span><br> +<span class="fs60">HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS</span> +</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"></div> + + + +<p class="center lsp2 fs110"> +INSTITUTTET<br> +FOR SAMMENLIGNENDE KULTURFORSKNING +</p> + +<hr class="r15"> + +<h1> +PRIMITIVE ART +</h1> + +<p class="center p2"> +<span class="fs60 lspp5">BY</span><br> +<br> +<span class="fs140 lsp1">FRANZ BOAS</span><br> +<span class="fs60">PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT COLUMBIA<br> +UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK</span> +</p> + +<p class="center p8"> +<br> +<span class="lsp1">OSLO 1927<br> + +<span class="fs70 lsp2">H. ASCHEHOUG & CO. (W. NYGAARD)</span><br> + +<span class="fs110">LEIPZIG <span class="pad20p">PARIS</span> + <span class="pad20p">LONDON</span></span></span> +<br> +<span class="fs60">OTTO HARRASSOWITZ <span class="pad10p">HONORÉ CHAMPION</span> + <span class="pad7p"> WILLIAMS & NORGATE, LTD.</span></span><br> +<span class="fs90">CAMBRIDGE, MASS.</span><br> +<span class="fs60">HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS</span> +</p> + + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"></div> +<p class="center p6 pb6 fs50 lsp2"> +PRINTED IN NORWAY<br> +<br> +DET MALLINGSKE BOGTRYKKERI +</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="PREFACE">PREFACE</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">This book is an attempt to give an analytical description of the +fundamental traits of primitive art. The treatment given to the +subject is based on two principles that, I believe, should guide +all investigations into the manifestations of life among primitive +people: the one the fundamental sameness of mental processes in +all races and in all cultural forms of the present day; the other, +the consideration of every cultural phenomenon as the result of +historical happenings.</p> + +<p>There must have been a time when man’s mental equipment was +different from what it is now, when it was evolving from a condition +similar to that found among the higher apes. That period lies +far behind us and no trace of a lower mental organization is found +in any of the extant races of man. So far as my personal experience +goes and so far as I feel competent to judge ethnographical data on +the basis of this experience, the mental processes of man are the +same everywhere, regardless of race and culture, and regardless of +the apparent absurdity of beliefs and customs.</p> + +<p>Some theorists assume a mental equipment of primitive man +distinct from that of civilized man. I have never seen a person in +primitive life to whom this theory would apply. There are slavish +believers in the teachings of the past and there are scoffers and +unbelievers; there are clear thinkers and muddleheaded bunglers; +there are strong characters and weaklings.</p> + +<p>The behavior of everybody, no matter to what culture he may +belong, is determined by the traditional material he handles, and +man, the world over, handles the material transmitted to him according +to the same methods.</p> + +<p>Our traditional experience has taught us to consider the course +of objective events as the result of definite, objective causation. +Inexorable causality governs here and the outer world cannot be +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[2]</span>influenced by mental conditions. Hence our hesitating wonder at +the phenomena of hypnotism and suggestion in which these lines +seem no longer sharply drawn. Our cultural environment has impressed +this view upon our minds so deeply that we assume +as a fundamental fact that material phenomena, particularly outside +of the field of human behavior, can never be influenced by +mental, subjective processes. Still, every ardent wish implies the +possibility of fulfilment and prayers for objective benefits or for +help do not differ in principle from the attempts of primitive man +to interfere with the uncontrollable course of nature. The credulity +with which fantastic theories bearing upon health are accepted, the +constant rise of religious sects with abstruse dogmatic tenets, as well +as the fashions in scientific and philosophic theory prove the weakness +of our claim to a rational view of the world.</p> + +<p>Anyone who has lived with primitive tribes, who has shared their +joys and sorrows, their privations and their luxuries, who sees in +them not solely subjects of study to be examined like a cell under +the microscope, but feeling and thinking human beings, will agree +that there is no such thing as a “primitive mind”, a “magical” or +“prelogical” way of thinking, but that each individual in “primitive” +society is a man, a woman, a child of the same kind, of the same +way of thinking, feeling and acting as man, woman or child in our +own society.</p> + +<p>Investigators are too apt to forget that the logics of science,—that +unattainable ideal of the discovery of pure relations of cause +and effect, uncontaminated by any kind of emotional bias as well +as of unproved opinion,—are not the logics of life. The feelings +underlying taboo are ever-present among us. I remember that as a +boy, when receiving instruction in religion,—that is in dogma,—I had +an insuperable inhibition against uttering the word “God”, and I +could not be brought to answer a question that required the answer +“God”. If I had been older I should have searched for and found +a personally satisfying explanation for this inhibition. Everyone +knows by experience that there are actions he will not perform, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span>lines of thought that he will not follow, and words that he will not +utter, because the actions are emotionally objectionable, or the +thoughts find strong resistances and involve our innermost life so +deeply that they cannot be expressed in words. We are right in +calling these social taboos. It requires only a dogmatic standardization +to transform them into true taboos.</p> + +<p>And magic? I believe if a boy should observe someone spitting +on his photograph and cutting it to pieces he would feel duely +outraged. I know if this should have happened to me when I was +a student, the result would have been a duel and I should have +done my level best to do to my adversary <i lang="la">in natura</i> what he had +done to me <i lang="la">in effigie</i> and I should have considered my success as +a compensation for the harm done me;—all this without any psychoanalytic +meaning. I do not believe that my feelings would have +differed much from those of other young men. Again a standardization +and dogmatization would bring us right back to “magical” +attitudes.</p> + +<p>Dr. Tozzer’s<a id="FNanchor_1_1" href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> collection of superstitions of College students with +the enlightening remarks by those who hold the beliefs will be read +with profit by all those who are convinced of our mental superiority +and the lack of ability of clear thinking among the primitives.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_1_1" href="#FNanchor_1_1" class="label">[1]</a> + A. M. Tozzer, Social Origins and Social Continuities, New York, 1925, pp. +242 et seq.</p></div></div> + +<p>Still other considerations should caution us against the assumption +of a radical difference between primitive and civilized mentality. We +like to see this distinction in greater individual mental freedom from +social bondage expressed in a free critical attitude that makes possible +individual creativeness.</p> + +<p>Our much admired scientific training has never proved a safeguard +against the seductiveness of emotional appeals, just as little as it has +prevented the acceptance as gospel truth of the grossest absurdities, +if presented with sufficient energy, self assertion and authority. If +anything, the late war with its organized governmental and private +propaganda should make us understand this truth. Opinions energetically +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span>propagated and spurious facts diligently disseminated color +the thinking of the people, and not only of the uneducated. The +intellectual is deceived as easily as the untutored by sanctimonious +professions that conform to the moral code of time and place and +flatter the feeling of self-righteousness. They gloss over the conflict +of deed and word and, when uttered by those in authority, make +criminals appear like saints.</p> + +<p>Our advantage over primitive people is one of greater knowledge +of the objective world, painfully gained by the labor of many generations, +a knowledge which we apply rather badly and which we, or +at least most of us, discard just as soon as a strong emotional urge +impels us to do so, and for which we substitute forms quite analogous +to those of primitive thought.</p> + +<p>The much maligned introspective psychology proves to the unbiased +observer that the causes that make primitive man think as +he does, are equally present in our minds. The particular behavior +in each case is determined by the traditional knowledge at the +disposal of the individual.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>The second fundamental point to be borne in mind is that each +culture can be understood only as an historical growth determined +by the social and geographical environment in which each people +is placed and by the way in which it develops the cultural material +that comes into its possession from the outside or through its own +creativeness. For the purpose of an historical analysis we treat +each particular problem first of all as a unit, and we attempt to +unravel the threads that may be traced in the development of its +present form. For this reason we may not start our inquiries and +interpretations, as though the fundamental thesis of a single unilineal +development of cultural traits the world over, of a development that +follows everywhere the same lines, had been definitely proven. If it +is claimed that culture has run such a course, the assertion must be +proven on the basis of detailed studies of the historical changes in single +cultures and by the demonstration of analogies in their development.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p> +<p>It is safe to say that the critical study of recent years has definitely +disproved the existence of far-reaching homologies which would +permit us to arrange all the manifold cultural lines in an ascending +scale in which to each can be assigned its proper place.</p> + +<p>On the other hand dynamic conditions exist, based on environment, +physiological, psychological, and social factors, that may bring +forth similar cultural processes in different parts of the world, so +that it is probable that some of the historical happenings may be +viewed under more general dynamic viewpoints.</p> + +<p>But historical data are not available and when prehistoric research +does not reveal sequences of cultural changes, the only available +method of study is the geographical one, the study of distribution. +This has been emphasized in the last third of the past century by +Friedrich Ratzel. It has probably been most rigidly developed in +the United States. I illustrated this method in 1891 by a study of +the distribution of folk-tales in North America<a id="FNanchor_2_2" href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> and it has become +more and more the method of analytical study of cultural forms.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_2_2" href="#FNanchor_2_2" class="label">[2]</a> +Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. IV, pp. 13-20; also Science, Vol. XII +(1888), pp. 194-196.</p></div></div> + +<p>Its very fruitfulness, however, has led to extremes in its application +that should be guarded against. I pointed out, in print in 1911 +and often before and since that time in speaking, that there is a +certain homology between universal distribution of cultural facts and +their antiquity. The fundamental principle involved in this assumption +was fully discussed by Georg Gerland in 1875,<a id="FNanchor_3_3" href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> although we +are hardly ready to accept his conclusions. The data of prehistoric +archaeology prove that some of these universal achievements go +back to paleolithic times. Stone implements, fire and ornaments +are found in that period. Pottery and agriculture, which are less +universally distributed, appear later. Metals, the use of which is +still more limited in space, are found still later.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_3_3" href="#FNanchor_3_3" class="label">[3]</a> + <span lang="de">Anthropologische Beiträge</span>, Halle a/S, pp. 401 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Recent attempts have been made to raise to a general principle +this point of view which, with due caution, may be applied here +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span>and there. Herbert Spinden in his reconstruction of American +prehistoric chronology, Alfred Kroeber in his analysis of cultural +forms of the Pacific Coast, and quite recently Clark Wissler have +built up, founded on this principle a system of historic sequences +that appear to me as quite untenable. That widely distributed +cultural traits develop special forms in each particular area is a +truism that does not require any proof. That these local developments +may be arranged in a chronological series, that those of the +most limited distribution are the youngest, is only partially true. It +is not difficult to find phenomena that center in a certain region +and dwindle down at the outskirts, but it is not true that these +invariably arise on an ancient substratum. The converse is often +true, that an idea emanating from a center is diffused over a wide +area. Neither may the origin always be looked for in the area of +the strongest development. In the same way as we find animals +surviving and flourishing in regions far distant from the locality in +which they developed, so cultural traits may be transferred and find +their highest expression in regions far away from their origin. The +bronze castings of Benin; the wood carvings of New Zealand; the +bronze work of ancient Scandinavia; the giant stone work of Easter +Island; the early cultural development of Ireland and its influences +over Europe are examples of this kind.</p> + +<p>Equally unsafe are the methods used by Fritz Graebner and Pater +W. Schmidt who claim the stability of certain very old and, as I +fear, fictitious correlations between cultural traits.</p> + +<p>It is probably not necessary to point out the utter inadequacy of +Elliott Smith’s attempt to reduce all ethnological phenomena to a +single, and anthropologically speaking, late source and to assume a +permanence of cultural forms that exists nowhere.</p> + +<p>It has often been observed that cultural traits are exceedingly +tenacious and that features of hoary antiquity survive until the +present day. This has led to the impression that primitive culture +is almost stable and has remained what it is for many centuries. +This does not correspond to the facts. Wherever we have detailed +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span>information we see forms of objects and customs in constant flux, +sometimes stable for a period, then undergoing rapid changes. +Through this process elements that at one time belonged together +as cultural units are torn apart. Some survive, others die, and so +far as objective traits are concerned, the cultural form may become +a kaleidoscopic picture of miscellaneous traits that, however, are +remodelled according to the changing spiritual background that +pervades the culture and that transforms the mosaic into an organic +whole. The better the integration of the elements the more valuable +appears to us the culture. I believe that it may be said that +the coherent survival of cultural features that are not organically +connected is exceedingly rare, while single detached elements may +possess marvellous longevity.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>In the present book the problem of growth of individual art styles +will be touched upon only incidentally. Our object is rather an +attempt to determine the dynamic conditions under which art styles +grow up. The specific historical problem requires much fuller +material than what we now possess. There are very few parts of +the world in which we can trace, by archaeological or comparative +geographical study, the growth of art styles. Prehistoric archaeology +in Europe, Asia, and America shows, however, that, as general +cultural traits are in a constant state of flux, so also do art styles +change and the breaks in the artistic life of the people are often +surprisingly sudden. It remains to be seen whether it is possible +to derive generally valid laws that control the growth of specific +art styles, such as Adama van Scheltema has tried to derive for +North European art.<a id="FNanchor_4_4" href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> With increasing technical skill and perfection +of tools, changes are bound to occur. Their course is determined +by the general cultural history of the people. We are not in +a position to say that the same tendencies, modified by local +historical happenings, reappear in the course of art development +everywhere.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_4_4" href="#FNanchor_4_4" class="label">[4]</a> +<span lang="de">Die altnordische Kunst</span>, Berlin, 1923.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span></p> +<p>I wish to express my thanks to those who have assisted me in +gathering the illustrative material for this volume. I am indebted to +the American Museum of Natural History, especially to Dr. Pliny +E. Goddard for permission to have drawings made of specimens, +for liberal help in their selection and also for the use of illustrative +material from the Museum publications. I am also indebted to the +Field Museum, Chicago; the United States National Museum, +Washington; the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania +at Philadelphia, the Free Public Museum of the City of +Milwaukee and to the Linden Museum at Stuttgart for illustrations +of specimens. The drawings were made by Mr. W. Baake, Miss +M. Franziska Boas and Miss Lillian Sternberg.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">No people known to us, however hard their lives may be, spend +all their time, all their energies in the acquisition of food and +shelter, nor do those who live under more favorable conditions and +who are free to devote to other pursuits the time not needed for +securing their sustenance occupy themselves with purely industrial +work or idle away the days in indolence. Even the poorest tribes +have produced work that gives to them esthetic pleasure, and those +whom a bountiful nature or a greater wealth of inventions has granted +freedom from care, devote much of their energy to the creation of +works of beauty.</p> + +<p>In one way or another esthetic pleasure is felt by all members +of mankind. No matter how diverse the ideals of beauty may be, the +general character of the enjoyment of beauty is of the same order +everywhere; the crude song of the Siberians, the dance of the +African Negroes, the pantomime of the Californian Indians, the stone +work of the New Zealanders, the carvings of the Melanesians, the +sculpture of the Alaskans appeal to them in a manner not different +from that felt by us when we hear a song, when we see an artistic +dance, or when we admire ornamental work, painting or sculpture. +The very existence of song, dance, painting and sculpture among +all the tribes known to us is proof of the craving to produce things +that are felt as satisfying through their form, and of the capability +of man to enjoy them.</p> + +<p>All human activities may assume forms that give them esthetic +values. The mere cry, or the word does not necessarily possess +the elements of beauty. If it does so it is merely a matter of +accident. Violent, unrestrained movements induced by excitement; +the exertions of the chase and the movements required by daily +occupations are partly reflexes of passion, partly practically determined. +They have no immediate esthetic appeal. The same is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span>true of all products of industrial activity. The daubing of paint, the +whittling of wood or bone, the flaking of stone do not necessarily +lead to results that compel our admiration on account of their +beauty.</p> + +<p>Nevertheless, all of them may assume esthetic values. Rhythmical +movements of the body or of objects, forms that appeal to +the eye, sequences of tones and forms of speech which please the +ear, produce artistic effects. Muscular, visual and auditory sensations +are the materials that give us esthetic pleasure and that are +used in art.</p> + +<p>We may also speak of impressions that appeal to the senses of +smell, taste and touch. A composition of scents, a gastronomical +repast may be called works of art provided they excite pleasurable +sensations.</p> + +<p>What then gives to the sensation an esthetic value? When the +technical treatment has attained a certain standard of excellence, +when the control of the processes involved is such that certain +typical forms are produced, we call the process an art, and however +simple the forms may be, they may be judged from the point of +view of formal perfection; industrial pursuits such as cutting, carving, +moulding, weaving; as well as singing, dancing and cooking are +capable of attaining technical excellence and fixed forms. The judgment +of perfection of technical form is essentially an esthetic judgment. +It is hardly possible to state objectively just where the line +between artistic and pre-artistic forms should be drawn, because we +cannot determine just where the esthetic attitude sets in. It seems +certain, however, that wherever a definite type of movement, a +definite sequence of tones or a fixed form has developed it must +become a standard by which its perfection, that is, its beauty, is +measured.</p> + +<p>Such types exist among mankind the world over, and we must +assume that if an unstandardized form should prove to possess an +esthetic appeal for a community it would readily be adopted. Fixity +of form seems to be most intimately connected with our ideas of beauty.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span></p> +<p>Since a perfect standard of form can be attained only in a +highly developed and perfectly controlled technique there must be +an intimate relation between technique and a feeling for beauty.</p> + +<p>It might be said that achievement is irrelevant as long as the +ideal of beauty for which the would-be artist strives is in existence, +although on account of imperfect technique he may be unable to +attain it. Alois Riegl expresses this idea by saying that the will to +produce an esthetic result is the essence of artistic work. The truth +of this assertion may be admitted and undoubtedly many individuals +strive for expression of an esthetic impulse without being able to +realize it. What they are striving for presupposes the existence of +an ideal form which the unskilled muscles are unable to express +adequately. The intuitive feeling for form must be present. So far +as our knowledge of the works of art of primitive people extends +the feeling for form is inextricably bound up with technical experience. +Nature does not seem to present formal ideals,—that is +fixed types that are imitated,—except when a natural object is used +in daily life; when it is handled, perhaps modified, by technical +processes. It would seem that only in this way form impresses +itself upon the human mind. The very fact that the manufactures +of man in each and every part of the world have pronounced style +proves that a feeling for form develops with technical activities. +There is nothing to show that the mere contemplation of nature or +of natural objects develops a sense of fixed form. Neither have +we any proof that a definite stylistic form develops as a product +purely of the power of the imagination of the workman, unguided +by his technical experience which brings the form into his consciousness. +It is conceivable that elementary esthetic forms like symmetry +and rhythm, are not entirely dependent upon technical activities; but +these are common to all art styles; they are not specifically characteristic +of any particular region. Without stability of form of objects, +manufactured or in common use, there is no style; and stability of +form depends upon the development of a high technique, or in a +few cases on the constant use of the same kind of natural products. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span>When stable forms have been attained, imaginative development of +form in an imperfect technique may set in and in this case the will +to produce an esthetic result may outrun the ability of the would-be +artist. The same consideration holds good in regard to the esthetic +value of muscular movements used in song and dance.</p> + +<p>The manufactures of man the world over prove that the ideal +forms are based essentially on standards developed by expert technicians. +They may also be imaginative developments of older standardized +forms. Without a formal basis the will to create something +that appeals to the sense of beauty can hardly exist.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>Many works of art affect us in another way. The emotions may +be stimulated not by the form alone, but also by close associations +that exist between the form and ideas held by the people. In other +words, when the forms convey a meaning, because they recall past +experiences or because they act as symbols, a new element is added to +the enjoyment. The form and its meaning combine to elevate the mind +above the indifferent emotional state of every day life. Beautiful sculpture +or painting, a musical composition, dramatic art, a pantomime, may +so affect us. This is no less true of primitive art than of our own.</p> + +<p>Sometimes esthetic pleasure is released by natural forms. The +song of a bird may be beautiful; we may experience pleasure in +viewing the form of a landscape or in viewing the movements of +an animal; we may enjoy a natural taste or smell, or a pleasant +feeling; grandeur of nature may give us an emotional thrill and the +actions of animals may have a dramatic effect; all of these have +esthetic values but they are not art. On the other hand, a melody, +a carving, a painting, a dance, a pantomime are esthetic productions, +because they have been created by our own activities.</p> + +<p>Form, and creation by our own activities are essential features of +art. The pleasure or elevation of the mind must be brought about +by a particular form of sense impression, but this sense impression +must be made by some kind of human activity or by some product +of human activity.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p> +<p>It is essential to bear in mind the twofold source of artistic effect, +the one based on form alone, the other on ideas associated with +form. Otherwise the theory of art will be one-sided. Since the +art of man, the world over, among primitive tribes as well as among +civilized nations, contains both elements, the purely formal and the +significant, it is not admissible to base all discussions of the manifestations +of the art impulse upon the assumption that the expression +of emotional states by significant forms must be the beginning +of art, or that, like language, art is a form of expression. In modern +times this opinion is based in part on the often observed fact that +in primitive art even simple geometrical forms may possess a meaning +that adds to their emotional value, and that dance, music and +poetry almost always have definite meaning. However, significance +of artistic form is neither universal nor can it be shown that it is +necessarily older than the form.</p> + +<p>I do not intend to enter into a discussion of the philosophical +theories of esthetics, but will confine myself to a few remarks on +the views of a number of recent authors who have treated art on +the basis of ethnological material, and only in so far as the question +is concerned whether primitive art is expressive of definite ideas.</p> + +<p>Our views agree fundamentally with those of Fechner<a id="FNanchor_5_5" href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> who recognizes +the “direct” appeal of the work of art on the one side and +the associated elements that give a specific tone to the esthetic +effects on the other.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_5_5" href="#FNanchor_5_5" class="label">[5]</a> + G. T. Fechner, <span lang="de">Vorschule der Aesthetik</span>.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Wundt<a id="FNanchor_6_6" href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> restricts the +discussion of art to those forms in which the +artistic work expresses some thought or emotion. He says, “For +the psychological study art stands in a position intermediate between +language and myth.... Thus the creative artistic work appears +to us as a peculiar development of the expressive movements of +the body. Gesture and language pass in a fleeting moment. In art +they are sometimes given a higher significance; sometimes the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span>fleeting movement is given a permanent form.... All these relations +are manifested principally in the relatively early, although not +in the very earliest stages of artistic work in which the momentary +needs of expression of thought dominate art as well as language.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_6_6" href="#FNanchor_6_6" class="label">[6]</a> + Wilhelm Wundt,<span lang="de"> Völkerpsychologie</span>, Vol. 3, +<span lang="de">Die Kunst</span>; third edition, Leipzig, +1919, p. 5.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Max Verworn<a id="FNanchor_7_7" href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> says: “Art is the faculty to express conscious +processes by means created by the artist himself in such a manner +that they may be perceived by our sense organs. In this general +sense language, song, music and dance are art, just as well as painting, +sculpture and ornamentation. The graphic and plastic arts in +the narrow sense of the term result from the ability of making +conscious processes visible in permanent materials.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_7_7" href="#FNanchor_7_7" class="label">[7]</a> <span lang="de">Die Anfänge der Kunst</span>, +Jena, 1920, p. 8. <span lang="de">“Kunst im allgemeinsten Sinne ist, +wie das Wort schon sagt, ein ‘Können’.”</span></p></div> +</div> +<p>Richard Thurnwald<a id="FNanchor_8_8" href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> accepts the view-point of Wundt when he +says, “Art, however inadequate its means may be, is a means of expression +that belongs to mankind. The means employed are distinct +from those used in gesture, language and writing. Even when the +artist is intent only upon the repetition of what he has in mind he +does so with at least the subconscious purpose of communicating +his ideas, of influencing others.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_8_8" href="#FNanchor_8_8" class="label">[8]</a> Richard Thurnwald, + <span lang="de">Handbuch der vergleichenden Psychologie, herausgegeben +von Gustav Kafka</span>, Vol. I, p. 211.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The same onesidedness may be recognized in Yrjö Hirn’s<a id="FNanchor_9_9" href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> opinion, +who says: “In order to understand the art impulse as a tendency +to esthetic production we must bring it into connection with some +function from the nature of which the specifically artistic qualities +may be derived. Such a function is to be found, we believe, in the +activities of emotional expression.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_9_9" href="#FNanchor_9_9" class="label">[9]</a> + Yrjö Hirn, The Origins of Art, London, 1900, p. 29.</p></div> +</div> +<p>It will be seen that all these authors confine their definition of +art to those forms which are expressions of emotional states or of +ideas, while they do not include in art the pleasure conveyed by +purely formal elements that are not primarily expressive.</p> + +<p>Ernst Grosse<a id="FNanchor_10_10" href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> expresses similar views in somewhat different form. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span>He stresses the practical purpose of artistic forms which appears to +him as primary. However, he assumes that these forms, while +devoted first of all to practical purposes, are intended at the same +time to serve an esthetic need that is felt by the people. Thus, he +says, that primitive ornament is by origin and by its fundamental +nature not intended as decorative but as a practically significant +mark or symbol, that is to say as expressive. If I understand him +correctly this practical significance implies some kind of meaning +inherent in the form.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_10_10" href="#FNanchor_10_10" class="label">[10]</a> +Ernst Grosse, <span lang="de">Die Anfänge der Kunst</span>, 1894, p. 292.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Emil Stephan<a id="FNanchor_11_11" href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> concludes from his detailed discussion of Melanesian +art that technical motives offer no sufficient explanation for the +origin of artistic forms (pp. <a href="#Page_52">52</a> et seq.). He considers all ornament +as representative and sees the origin of art in that unconscious +mental process by which the form appears as distinct from the +content of the visual impression, and in the desire to give permanence +to the form (p. 51). For this reason he considers the artistic +forms also as equivalents of the way in which the form appears to +the primitive artist.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_11_11" href="#FNanchor_11_11" class="label">[11]</a> + Emil Stephan, <span lang="de">Südseekunst</span>, Berlin, 1907.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Alfred C. Haddon<a id="FNanchor_12_12" href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> and W. H. Holmes<a id="FNanchor_13_13" href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> + seek the origin of all +decorative art in realism. They discuss the transfer of technical forms +to ornament but they see in these also results of the endeavor to +reproduce realistic form, namely; technical details. Henry Balfour<a id="FNanchor_14_14" href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> +agrees, on the whole, with this position but he stresses also the +development of decorative motives from the actual use of technical +processes.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_12_12" href="#FNanchor_12_12" class="label">[12]</a> +Alfred C. Haddon, Evolution in Art, London 1895.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_13_13" href="#FNanchor_13_13" class="label">[13]</a> +W. H. Holmes, Origin and Development of Form in Ceramic Art, Annual Report +Bureau of Ethnology, Vol. 4, 1886, pp. 443 et seq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_14_14" href="#FNanchor_14_14" class="label">[14]</a> + Henry Balfour, The Evolution of Decorative Art, London 1893.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>Gottfried Semper<a id="FNanchor_15_15" href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> emphasizes the importance of the form as +determined by the manner of use. He also stresses the influence +of designs developed in weaving and of their transfer upon other +forms of technique, particularly upon architectural forms.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_15_15" href="#FNanchor_15_15" class="label">[15]</a> +Gottfried Semper, <span lang="de">Der Stil in den Technischen und Tektonischen Künsten</span>, 1860.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span></p> +<p>Alois Riegl<a id="FNanchor_16_16" href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> is also inclined to stress the representative character +of the most ancient art forms, basing his argument essentially upon +the realistic paleolithic carvings and paintings. He sees the most +important step forward in the attempt to show the animals in outline, +on a two-dimensional surface which necessitates the substitution +of an ideal line for the three-dimensional form that is given to +us by every day experience. He assumes that geometric ornament +developed from the treatment of the line, obtained by the process +just mentioned, according to formal principles.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_16_16" href="#FNanchor_16_16" class="label">[16]</a> + Alois Riegl, <span lang="de">Stilfragen</span>, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1923, pp. 2 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>Setting aside the assumed sequence of these two aspects, his view-point +is distinguished from that of the authors referred to before, +by the recognition of the principle of form as against that of content.</p> + +<p>The principle of form is still more energetically defended by van +Scheltema, who tries to prove definite developmental processes +through which the formal treatment of North European art has +passed, first in the Neolithic period, then in the bronze age and +finally in the iron age.<a id="FNanchor_17_17" href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"> +<p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_17_17" href="#FNanchor_17_17" class="label">[17]</a> + F. Adama van Scheltema, <span lang="de">Die altnordische Kunst</span>, Berlin, 1923. For a comprehensive +review of works on primitive art up to 1914, see Martin Heydrich, +<span lang="de">Afrikanische Ornamentik</span>, <span lang="de">Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie</span>, + Supplement to +Volume XXII, Leyden, 1914; also the bibliography in Eckert von Sydow, <span lang="de">Die Kunst +der Naturvölker und der Vorzeit</span>, Berlin, 1923; and Herbert Kühn, <span lang="de">Die Kunst der +Primitiven</span>, München, 1923. An excellent review of the subject has been given by +Elizabeth Wilson, <span lang="de">Das Ornament</span> (Dissertation, University of Leipzig).</p></div> +</div> +<p>Alfred Vierkandt<a id="FNanchor_18_18" href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> + also emphasizes the fundamental importance of +the formal element in the esthetic effect of all manifestations of art.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_18_18" href="#FNanchor_18_18" class="label">[18]</a> + <span lang="de">Prinzipienfragen der ethnologischen Kunstforschung, Zeitschrift für Aesthetik +und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft</span>, Vol. XIX, Berlin, 1925, pp. 338 et seq. +See also <span lang="de">Jahrbuch für historische Volkskunde</span>, Vol. II; + <span lang="de">Vom Wesen der Volkskunst</span>, +Berlin, 1926; Rafael Karsten, Civilization of South American Indians, New York, 1926.</p></div> +</div><hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="GRAPHIC_AND_PLASTIC_ARTS">GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS +<br> +<span class="fs75">THE FORMAL ELEMENT IN ART</span></h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">An examination of the material on which our studies of the artistic +value of objects of primitive manufacture are founded shows +that in most cases we are dealing with products of an industry in +which a high degree of mechanical skill has been attained. Ivory +carvings of the Eskimo; fur clothing of the Chukchee; wood carving +of the northwest coast of America, of New Zealand, the Marquesas, +or central Africa; metal work of Africa; appliqué work and embroidery +of the Amur River; pottery of the North American Pueblos; +bronze work of ancient Scandinavia are examples of this kind.</p> + +<p>The close relation between technical virtuosity and the fullness of +artistic development may easily be demonstrated by an examination +of the art of tribes with one-sided industries. While people like the +African negroes or the Malay are in possession of many industries, +such as basketry, carving, weaving, metal work and pottery, we find +others among whom the range of industrial activities is so narrow +that almost all the utensils for their manifold needs are made by +the same process.</p> + +<p>The Californian Indians present an excellent example of this +kind. Their chief industry is basketry. Almost all their household +goods, receptacles for storage, cooking vessels, mortars for +preparing food, children’s cradles, receptacles for carrying loads, +are made of basketry. As compared to this industry others employed +for the manufacture of weapons and tools are insignificant. +The building of houses, of canoes, woodcarving, and painting are +only slightly developed. The only other occupation in which an +unusual degree of skill has been attained is featherwork. A great +deal of time is therefore given to the manufacture of baskets and +an unusual degree of virtuosity is found among the basketmakers. +The beauty of form, the evenness of texture of the Californian +baskets are well known and highly prized by collectors. At the same +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span>time the baskets are elaborately decorated with a variety of geometrical +designs or by the addition of shells and feathers. (Plate <a href="#plate_I">I</a>.) +Basketmaking is an occupation of women and thus it happens that +among the Californian Indians only women are creative artists. +They are virtuosos in their technique and on account of their +virtuosity productive. The works of art made by the men are, as +compared to theirs, insignificant.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_1" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_021.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 1. Front of painted box, Tlingit, Alaska. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It so happens that conditions among the northern neighbors of the +Californians are reversed. From Puget Sound northward the household +goods and implements of the Indians are made of wood, and much of the +time of the men is spent in woodworking. They are skilled joiners +and carvers who through constant practice have acquired virtuosity +in the handling of wood. The exactness of their work rivals that of +our very best craftsmen. Their boxes, buckets, kettles, cradles, and +dishes are all made of wood, as those of the Californians are made of +basketry. In their lives basketry plays a relatively unimportant part. +The industry in which they have attained greatest proficiency, is, at +the same time, the one in which their decorative art is most fully +developed. It finds expression, not only in the beauty of form of the +woodwork, but also in elaborate decoration. Among these people all +other aspects of decorative art are weak as compared to their artistic +expression in woodwork or in art forms derived from woodwork (fig. <a href="#fig_1">1</a>). +All this work is done by men and hence it follows that the men are the +creative artists while the women seem to be lacking in inventiveness +and artistic sense. Here also virtuosity in technique and artistic +productivity go hand in hand.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="plate_I" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_022.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate I.</span></p> + + + Maidu Baskets. 1-2. Butterfly design. 3. Raccoon design. + 4. Rim: mountains; body: flying geese. 5. Moth-miller. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span></p> +<p>As a third example we might mention the Pueblo Indians of the +Southern United States. In many villages of this region pottery is +the dominant industry and in pottery is found the highest expression +of art. The form of the clay vessel is characterized by great +regularity and it becomes the substratum for decoration. Since +pottery is a woman’s art, women are the most productive artists +among the Pueblos (fig. <a href="#fig_2">2</a>). However, the industrial activities of +the Pueblos are not quite so one-sided as those of California and +British Columbia. Therefore the men +who are experienced in industrial work +devoted to ceremonial purposes are +not lacking in the ability of artistic +expression.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp40" id="fig_2" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_024.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 2. Jar from Zuni. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I believe these examples demonstrate +that there is a close connection between +the development of skill in an industry +and artistic activity. Ornamental art +has developed in those industries in +which the greatest skill is attained. +Artistic productivity and skill are closely correlated. Productive +artists are found among those who have mastered a technique, +among men when the industries are in their hands, among women +when they are devoted to industrial activities.</p> + +<p>It will be admitted that aside from all adventitious form elements, +the product of an experienced worker in any handicraft has an +artistic value. A child learning to make a basket or a pot cannot +attain the regularity of outline that is achieved by the master.</p> + +<p>The appreciation of the esthetic value of technical perfection is +not confined to civilized man. It is manifested in the forms of +manufactured objects of all primitive people that are not contaminated +by the pernicious effects of our civilization and its machine-made +wares. In the household of the natives we do not find slovenly +work, except when a rapid makeshift has to be made. Patience +and careful execution characterize most of their products. Direct +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span>questioning of natives and their criticism of their own work shows +also their appreciation of technical perfection. Virtuosity, complete +control of technical processes, however, means an automatic regularity +of movement. The basketmaker who manufactures a coiled +basket, handles the fibres composing the coil in such a way that +the greatest evenness of coil diameter results (fig. <a href="#fig_3_4">3</a>). In making +her stitches the automatic control of the left hand that lays down +the coil, and of the right that pulls the binding stitches over the +coil brings it about that the distances between the stitches and the +strength of the pull are absolutely even so that the surface will be +smooth and evenly rounded and that the stitches show a perfectly +regular pattern,—in the same way as an experienced seamstress +will make her stitches at regular intervals and with even pull, so +that they lie like beads on a string. The same observation may be +made in twined basketry (fig. <a href="#fig_3_4">4</a>). In the handiwork of an expert +the pull of the woof string will be so even that there is no distortion +of the warp strings and the twisted woof will lie in regularly +arranged loops. Any lack of automatic control will bring about +irregularities of surface pattern.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp80" id="fig_3_4" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_025.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd25">Fig. 3. Coiled basketry.</td> +<td class="tdc ">Fig. 4. Twined basketry.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A pot of well-rounded form results also from complete control of +a technique. Primitive tribes make their pottery without the aid +of the potter’s wheel, and in most cases the potter builds up his +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span>vessel by the process of coiling, analogous to the coiling of a +basket. Long round strips of clay are laid down spirally beginning +at the bottom. By continued turning and gradual laying on of +more and more strips in a continued spiral the pot is built up. +Complete control of the technique will result in a perfectly round +cross section and in smooth curvatures of the sides. Lack of skill +will bring about lack of symmetry and +of smoothness of curvature. Virtuosity +and regularity of surface and form +are here also intimately related.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_5" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_026.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 5. Chipped flint implements: + <i>a</i> North America; <i>b</i> Egypt. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A similar correlation is found in +the manufacture of chipped stone +implements. After the brittle stone +has been roughly shaped it is given +its final form either by pressure +with an implement that squeezes +off long, thin flakes or by indirect +chipping. In the former case the +flaking implement is held in the right +hand and by sudden pressure with +the point of the flaker long flakes +or small bits are removed from +the surface. When the worker has +attained complete control of this technique his pressure will be +even and executed with equal rapidity; the distances between the +points of attack will be the same and he will move his flaker +in regular lines. The result is a chipped implement of regular form +and surface pattern in which the long, conchoidal depressions caused +by the flaking off of thin chips are of equal size and regularly +arranged (fig. <a href="#fig_5">5</a>).</p> + +<p>When indirect chipping is applied the thin part of the object +which is to be worked is placed on a hard, sharp edge and by a +smart blow on the body of the flint a strong vibration is produced +which results in a break just over the sharp edge. In this way, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span>place and size of the flake are perfectly controlled by the expert +craftsman.</p> + +<p>Quite similar are the conditions in woodwork. The smoothing +of large surfaces is generally done with the adze. A skilled worker +handles his adze automatically. The strength of the stroke and +the depth to which it enters the surface of the wood are always +the same and the chips removed have always the same size and +form. The workman will also move the adze in even lines and +strike the surface at even distances. The result of automatic +action is here, also, evenness of surface and regularity of surface +pattern (fig. <a href="#fig_6">6</a>).</p> + +<p>These conditions are well-described by Sophus Müller, who says,<a id="FNanchor_19_19" href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> +“A great part of the work on flint must be designated as luxury, +and was done with the sole intent of producing a masterpiece of +handiwork. When making an adze blade all that is needed for +practical purposes is a good cutting edge. Smoothness of face, back +and sides is not necessary, particularly since a large portion of these +were covered by the attachment to the handle. With coarse and +conchoidal chipping the blade would be equally serviceable. However, +the maker wanted to produce excellent stone work, to the making +of which he devoted all the care, taste and skill at his command +and by this the manufactured objects undoubtedly increased in value. +These objects might be called therefore, in the strict sense of the +term, works of artistic industry.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_19_19" href="#FNanchor_19_19" class="label">[19]</a> + Sophus Müller, <span lang="de">Nordische Altertumskunde</span>, Strassburg 1897, Vol. I, p. 190.</p></div> +</div> +<p>All these examples show that complete automatic control of a +technique, and regularity of form and surface pattern are intimately +correlated.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_6" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028_6.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 6. Part of surface of + wooden sail, Vancouver + Island. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_7" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028_7.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 7. Painted board, + Tierra del Fuego. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_8" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028_8.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 8. Bushman designs from ostrich eggs and from + horn bracelet. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_9" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028_9.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 9. Kaffer headrests. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>However, besides these, attempts at decoration occur in which a +mastery of technique has not been attained. Among a few tribes +almost all artistic work is of this character. Among the inhabitants +of Tierra del Fuego are found only meagre examples of painting, +lacking in skill (fig. <a href="#fig_7">7</a>). The patterns are simply dots and +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span>coarse lines in which the arrangement is the essential artistic element. +It is intelligible that a feeling for symmetry may exist without the +ability of perfect execution. The modern Bushmen scratch patterns +on ostrich eggs which serve as receptacles for water (fig. <a href="#fig_8">8</a>). Here +we find the intent to give expression to form but with inadequate +means. It is important to note that the same motive, two circles +connected by a narrow band, occurs several times in these etchings. +The circle might be suggested to the workman by the perforation +of the shell of the ostrich egg through which the water is poured +out, but the combination can hardly be derived on the basis of +Bushman industries. Shall we consider the pattern as the result +of the play of their imagination or as an attempt at representation? +It seems to me important to note that the neighbors of the Bushmen, +the negroes of the Zambezi, use the same pattern and that +rows of triangles and diamonds, such as are used by the Bushmen, +are found on their implements also (fig. <a href="#fig_9">9</a>). The pattern may +therefore have come from an outside source.<a id="FNanchor_20_20" href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> Perhaps the decoration +on ostrich eggs is poor only on account of the difficulties of +handling the material. At least the zig-zag patterns (fig. <a href="#fig_8">8</a>), found +on a bracelet, show a much greater technical perfection than those +found on the ostrich eggs.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_20_20" href="#FNanchor_20_20" class="label">[20]</a> + F. von Luschan, <span lang="de">Buschmann-Einritzungen auf Strausseneiern, Zeitschrift für +Ethnologie</span>, Vol. 55 (1923), pp. 31 et seq.—Hendrik P. M. Muller et John F. +Snelleman, <span lang="fr">L’Industrie des Caffres dans le sud-est de l’Afrique</span>. (Pl. XIV, Figs. +2-5). See also P. C. Lepage, <span lang="fr">La décoration primitive; Afrique</span>, Paris, +<span lang="fr">Librairie des arts décoratifs</span>, Plate 5, where similar designs are shown on pottery vessels.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Here may also be mentioned the painting and carving of the +Melanesians. We see among them a wealth of forms in carvings +of excellent technique. In some specimens, particularly from +western New Guinea, we find complete mastery of the art. In +the majority of cases, however, there is an imperfect control of +technique, while there is an astounding multiplicity of forms. The +lines generally lack regularity and evenness (fig. <a href="#fig_10">10</a> <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>). There is +no clear proof of a general degeneration of the art and we may +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span>perhaps assume that in this case the development of a keen sense for +form among all the carvers and painters of the tribe did not go hand +in hand with a corresponding mastery of technique. It is not unlikely +that foreign influence has led here to an exuberant form perception.</p> + +<p>Setting aside any esthetic consideration, we recognize that in +cases in which a perfect technique +has developed, the consciousness +of the artist of having +mastered great difficulties, in +other words the satisfaction of +the virtuoso is a source of +genuine pleasure.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_10" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_030.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 10. Paddle and shield, New Ireland. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I do not propose to enter +into a discussion of the ultimate +sources of all esthetic judgments. +It is sufficient for an +inductive study of the forms +of primitive art to recognize +that regularity of form and +evenness of surface are essential +elements of decorative +effect, and that these are intimately +associated with the feeling +of mastery over difficulties; +with the pleasure felt by the virtuoso on account of his own powers.</p> + +<p>I can give at least a few examples which illustrate that the artist +has not in mind the visual effect of his work, but that he is stimulated +by the pleasure of making a complex form.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_11_12" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_031.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd50">Fig. 11. Plan of rawhide box, Sauk and Fox Indians.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 12. Rawhide box, Sauk and Fox Indians.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The raw hide boxes of the Sauk and Fox Indians are made of a +large piece of hide which is carefully ornamented according to a +definite plan (fig. <a href="#fig_11_12">11</a>). The boxes are made by folding the hide. +There are five sides of approximately equal width (1-5). These +are the four sides of the box: front (5), bottom (4), back (3), top (2), +and a flap (1) covering the front. A strip on each side (<i>a</i>-<i>e</i>) is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span>folded over and the marginal piece (<i>d</i>) belonging to the bottom segment +is folded in along diagonal lines as we fold in the ends of a +paper wrapper, so that the marginal strips, <i>e</i> and <i>c</i>, form the sides +of the box. Another similar fold is made in <i>b</i> when the top is folded +over the top opening of the box. The folds at the bottom are sewed +in firmly, while the fold on top remains open. The resulting form +is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_11_12">12</a>. Those parts of the surface that are entirely +invisible are indicated by horizontal shading (fig. <a href="#fig_11_12">11</a>). These are +folded in and sewed in on the inside of the box. Those parts that +may be seen when the box is opened are indicated by diagonal +shading; while the white area is that part of the surface that is +visible when the box is closed and tied up. It will be noticed that +the fields <i>c</i> and <i>e</i> overlap on the short sides of the finished box.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_13_14" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_032.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 13. Design on rawhide for a box, Sauk and Fox Indians.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 14. Design on rawhide for a box, Sauk and Fox Indians.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The decoration of these boxes is carefully laid out on a flat piece +of rawhide. Corresponding to the five faces of the box most of +the designs are divided into five equal fields and corresponding to +the folded margins two marginal fields are set off from the central +field. This, however, is so narrow that in folding part of the lateral +design is turned over so that it becomes invisible. When the boxes +are folded the cohesion of the pattern is completely lost. Not only +do the folds fail to agree with the divisions, but owing to the method +of folding and the complete covering of the field <i>d</i> and of part of <i>e</i>, +the whole pattern is broken up and on the short sides we find +only fragments adjoining in the most irregular way (fig. <a href="#fig_11_12">12</a>). When +the box is closed field <i>e</i> adjoins field 1, and the overlapping +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span>section <i>c</i> adjoins it in the middle of the narrow side. On top it adjoins +field 2 and at the bottom field 4. The whole formal idea of the +carefully planned pattern is lost in the completed box. We find even +patterns laid out in four strips instead of five, so that the fundamental +pattern and the sides do not coincide (fig. <a href="#fig_13_14">14</a>). It will be +seen, therefore, that the artist spends his ingenuity in decorating the +rawhide but that in the box the fundamental ideas of his carefully +planned decoration are lost.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_15" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_033.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 15. Designs on rawhide boxes, Sauk and Fox Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The disregard of the original pattern is such that in some specimens +(fig. <a href="#fig_15">15</a>) part of the design has been cut off in order to make the +sides fit together. In our illustration the parts cut off,—the right +upper corners,—have been reconstructed.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p> +<p>It might be said that similar conditions prevail in modern, patterned +fabrics that are made into garments. In this case the manufacturer +tries to attain a pleasing effect for the fabric as a whole. If economy +of material did not interfere, the tailor would fit the pattern together, +but we always feel the conflict between the pattern and the requirements +of the finished garment.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_16" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_034.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 16. Fringe from legging, + Thompson Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>As another example I mention +a legging made by an Indian woman +from the interior of British +Columbia. It bears the usual decoration,—a +long fringe along the +outer seam. The fringe consists +of a long piece of curried skin +cut in narrow strips. These strips +are decorated in rhythmic order +(fig. <a href="#fig_16">16</a>), a string decorated by +one glass bead and two bone +beads in alternating order is +followed by a plain string, next +by one decorated with single +alternating glass and bone beads, +then a plain one and finally one like the first. When we indicate +the plain and decorated strips by letters, we find the arrangement</p> + +<p class="center nowrap"> +. . . | A B C B A | A B C B A | . . . +</p> + +<p class="noindent">repeated over and over again.<a id="FNanchor_21_21" href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> The important point to be noted is, +that when in use, the fringe hangs down without order along the +outer side of the leg so that the elaborate rhythmic pattern cannot +be seen. The only way in which the maker can get any satisfaction +from her work is while making it or when exhibiting it to her friends. +When it is in use there is no esthetic effect.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_21_21" href="#FNanchor_21_21" class="label">[21]</a> James Teit, The Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Publications of the +Jesup North Pacific Expedition, New York 1900, Vol. I, p. 382; see also Gladys +A. Reichard, The Complexity of Rhythm in Decorative Art, American Anthropologist +N. S., Vol. 24 (1922), p. 198.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp45" id="fig_17" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_035_17.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 17. Twilled weaving showing + alternation of patterns. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span></p> +<p>Other cases occur in which motives are applied that are practically +invisible. Thus in mattings from Vancouver Island, the weaver will +alternate the direction of the strands in squares without any attempt +to set off the surface in colors (fig. <a href="#fig_17">17</a>). +When the matting is new these patterns +may be seen in reflected light, but +after a very short time they disappear +almost completely.</p> + +<p>Similarly the woven patterns on arm +rings from the Ucayali are practically +invisible.<a id="FNanchor_22_22" href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_22_22" href="#FNanchor_22_22" class="label">[22]</a> + Max Schmidt, <span lang="de">Besondere Geflechtsart der Indianer im Ucayaligebiete, Archiv +für Anthropologie</span>, N. S., Vol. VI (1907), p. 270.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_18" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_035_18.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 18. Carving on bow of Bella Bella + canoe, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>To sum up: Objectively the excellence +of workmanship results in regularity +of form and evenness of surface +which are characteristic of most uncontaminated +primitive manufactures, +so much so that most objects of every day use must be considered +as works of art. The handles of implements, stone blades, receptacles, +clothing, permanent houses, canoes are finished off in such a way that +their forms have artistic value.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_19_20" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_036.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd60">Fig. 19. Rattle, Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 20. Base of flint knife,</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Expert workmanship in the treatment of the surface may lead not only +to evenness but also to the development of patterns. In adzing the +form of the object to be smoothed will determine the most advantageous +direction of the lines in which the adze has to be carried. In a large +Bella Bella canoe, the body of the canoe is adzed in horizontal lines, +while prow and stern show vertical lines. The wolf carved on the bow of +the same canoe shows surface patterns on its body and limbs (fig. <a href="#fig_18">18</a>). +Decorative <span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span>use of adzed lines, is also found on a rattle (fig. <a href="#fig_19_20">19</a>). +In this specimen there is no technical need for the alternation in the +direction of the groves, and the fields on the top of the rattle can +the explained only as determined by the pleasure felt by the variation +of the simple activity in novel and more complicated ways.<a id="FNanchor_23_23" href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_23_23" href="#FNanchor_23_23" class="label">[23]</a> +See also page <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In chipping of flint zig-zag lines are produced by the meeting of +two lines on a ridge (fig. <a href="#fig_19_20">20</a>).</p> + +<p>Technical experience and the acquisition of virtuosity have probably +led to the general prevalence of the plane, the straight line and regular +curves such as the circle and the spiral, for all of these are of +rare occurrence in nature, so rare indeed, that they had hardly ever +a chance to impress themselves upon the mind.</p> + +<p>Plain surfaces are represented by crystals, by the cleavage of some +kinds of rock, or by the surface of water during a calm. Straight +lines by the shoots and stems of plants or by the sharp edges of +crystals; regular curved lines by the shells of snails, by vines, bubbles +on water or by smooth pebbles, but there is no obvious motive +that would induce man to imitate these particular abstract forms, +except perhaps in those cases in which regularly curved shells are +worn as ornaments or employed as utensils.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, the straight line develops constantly in technical +work. It is a characteristic form of the stretched thong or cord and +its importance cannot be ignored by the hunter who hurls a lance or +flies an arrow. The technical use of the straight shoot may well have +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span>been important in its derivation. Plants like the bamboo or the reed +may thus have helped man to discover the value of the straight line.</p> + +<p>More essential than this seems to be the possession of a perfect +technique, which involves great accuracy and steadiness of movement. +These in themselves must lead necessarily to regular lines. +When the uncertain wobbling of the cutting +tool is eliminated, smooth curves will result. +When the potter turns the pot he +is making and his movements are quite +regular the pot will be circular. Perfectly +controlled coiling of basketry or of wire will +lead to the formation of equidistant spirals.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_21" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_037.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 21. Face painting, Tierra del Fuego. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A number of other characteristic features +may be observed in the art of all times +and all peoples. One of these is symmetry. +Symmetrical forms are found even +in the simplest forms of decorative art. +The tribes of Tierra del Fuego<a id="FNanchor_24_24" href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> decorate +their faces and bodies with designs, many +of which are symmetrical. Vertical lines on +both sides of the body or a series of symmetrically arranged dots +running from ear to ear across the nose are of this kind (fig. <a href="#fig_21">21</a>). +They also use symmetrically decorated boards with which they adorn +their huts (see fig. <a href="#fig_7">7</a>, page 23). The Andaman Islanders like to +decorate their bodies with symmetrical patterns (Plate <a href="#plate_II">II</a>). Many of the +designs of the Australians are symmetrical (fig. <a href="#fig_22">22</a>) and in paleolithic +painting geometrical forms occur that exhibit bilateral symmetry +(fig. <a href="#fig_23">23</a>). In a few cases the elements arranged symmetrically are so +complex that the symmetry can have been attained only by careful +planning. Examples of this kind are necklaces of Indians in British +Columbia in which we find as many as eighteen beads of different +colors irregularly arranged, but repeated in equal order right and left.<a id="FNanchor_25_25" href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_24_24" href="#FNanchor_24_24" class="label">[24]</a> + W. Koppers, <span lang="de">Unter Feuerland-Indianern</span>, p. 48, Pl. 7.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_25_25" href="#FNanchor_25_25" class="label">[25]</a> + See Gladys A. Reichard, American Anthropologist, N. S., Vol. 24 (1922) p. 191.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="plate_II" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_038.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate II.</span></p> + + + Andaman Islander. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span></p> +<p>The causes that have led to the widespread use of symmetrical +forms are difficult to understand. Symmetrical motions of the arms +and hands are physiologically determined. The right and left are +apt to move symmetrically +and the +motions of the same +arm or of both arms +are often performed +rhythmically and +symmetrically from +right to left and from +left to right. I am +inclined to consider +this condition as one +of the fundamental +determinants, in importance +equal to +the view of the symmetry +of the human +body and of that of +animals; not that the +designs are made by +right and left hand, +rather that the sensation +of the motions +of right and left +lead to the feeling +of symmetry.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_22" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_040_22.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 22. Australian shields. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_23" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_040_23.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 23. Paleolithic paintings. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In by far the greatest number of cases symmetrical arrangements +are to the right and left of a vertical axis, much more rarely above +and below a horizontal one.</p> + +<p>The prevalence of horizontal and the rarity of vertical symmetry +is presumably due to the absence of vertically symmetrical movements,—except +in those rhythmic movements in which the arms are +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span>alternately raised and lowered,—and in the rarity of natural forms +that are vertically symmetrical.</p> +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_24" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044_24.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 24. Patterns from bamboo combs, Malay Peninsula. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In nature we see generally more fundamental differences in vertical +direction than in horizontal layers. In animals, legs, body and head +are on different levels. In landscapes, earth, trees, mountains and +sky follow one another in vertical succession. On the other hand, +we are liable to find in horizontal sequence sameness or variations +of analogous form. This may be one of the reasons why there are +found in ornamental art frequent arrangements in a series of horizontal +bands that differ fundamentally in pattern, while in each horizontal +band we find either symmetry, rhythmic repetition, or variations of +similar forms (figs. <a href="#fig_24">24</a>, <a href="#fig_25">25</a>, <a href="#fig_26">26</a>). Exceptions however, occur, for +instance in the decorations of Melanesian houses (Plate <a href="#plate_III">III</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp20" id="fig_25" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044_25.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 25. + Design from + bamboo spear, + New Guinea. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Other causes may contribute to the development of symmetrical +patterns. In the making of coiled pottery or coiled basketry symmetry +results from the process of manufacture. By regular turning of the pot +or basket a circular form is produced. The process of winding twine +around a holder may have the same effect. In two-handed implements, +such as the bow of the bowdrill, symmetrical forms also develop, but implements +of this type are not by any means numerous and their occurrence +is no adequate explanation of the general occurrence of symmetry.</p> + +<p>We must leave it undecided whether the circumstances here referred +to are adequate to account for the symmetry of form of +such implements as lance heads, arrow-heads, baskets and boxes. +We must be satisfied with the establishment of their general occurrence +and the knowledge that they have an esthetic value wherever they +are found. Examples of symmetrical arrangements are very numerous. +The boxes from British Columbia (fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a>, p. 263), neckrests of the +Kaffers (fig. <a href="#fig_9">9</a>, p. 23), Melanesian shields and paddles (fig. <a href="#fig_10">10</a>, p. 25), +and the painted rawhides of the Sauk and Fox (figs. <a href="#fig_13_14">13</a>-<a href="#fig_15">15</a>, pp. 27, 28) +may serve as exemples. A special type of symmetrical design is +found in our heraldic style with its animals rampant on each side of +a central field. It is interesting to note that the same arrangement +is very ancient. It occurs on the Lions’ Gate of Mycenae. It has +also developed independently in prehistoric Peru (fig. <a href="#fig_27">27</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="plate_III" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_042.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate III.</span></p> + + + Decorated House, Northern New Guinea. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_26" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044_26.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 26. Etruscan vase. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_27" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044_27.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 27. Peruvian designs. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span></p> +<p>On objects that are frequently seen from different sides are found +forms that are symmetrical both ways, when seen right and left +and when seen up and down. Examples of this are the Australian +shield fig. <a href="#fig_22">22</a> (p. 33), and the parfleches of the North American +Indians (fig. <a href="#fig_88_89">89</a>, p. 97). On objects of similar character made by the +same technical processes +and by the same tribe, +such as rawhide bags +(fig. <a href="#fig_28_30">28</a>) double symmetry +may also occur.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_28_30" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_045.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd50">Fig. 28. Painted rawhide bags, Shuswap, British Columbia.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 30. Carved board Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, New Guinea.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In circular forms the +diameter is often the +axis of symmetry. In +other cases symmetrical +fields are radially arranged +and there may be +a number of repetitions. +The circumference takes +the place of the horizontal, +the radius that +of the vertical (fig. <a href="#fig_29">29</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_29" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_046_29.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 29. Designs of the Dayak. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a number of cases +we find instead of normal +symmetry an inversion +of the two symmetrical +halves so that what is +above to the right, is below to the left. Arrangements of this type are, +however, less numerous than true symmetry. Such forms occur in +New Guinea. They are due to the decorative development of the two +branches of a double spiral (fig. <a href="#fig_28_30">30</a>). This form results sometimes from +circular rhythmic repetitions in which the whole circle is filled by two +or more units. This is found for instance, in pottery from the southwestern +Pueblos (fig. <a href="#fig_31">31</a>) and also quite commonly in Central America.<a id="FNanchor_26_26" href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_26_26" href="#FNanchor_26_26" class="label">[26]</a> + See, for instance S. K. Lothrop, Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, New +York, 1926, Plates 39, 46, fig. 195.</p></div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span></p> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_31" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_046_31.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 31. Designs from pottery of the ancient Pueblos. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span></p> +<p>Other figures resulting from rotation, that is from a decorative pattern +applied rhythmically in the same direction, as for instance the swastika +and S shaped figures occupying +the center of a decorative field, +present the same type of inverted +symmetry. The same treatment +is found in the art of ancient +Scandinavia (fig. <a href="#fig_32">32</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_32" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_047_32.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 32. Bronze ornament, Sweden, + 7th Century A. D. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_33" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_047_33.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 33. Design from Peruvian textile. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A curious development of this +decorative device is applied in +the art of ancient Peru. On +many fabrics we find patterns +consisting of a diagonal arrangement +of squares or rectangles. +In each diagonal the same design +is repeated, while the next +diagonal has another type. In +each diagonal line the design is +shown in varying positions. If +the one faces the right, the next +faces the left. At the same time +there is an alternation of colors, +so that even when the form is the +same, the tints and the color values +will not be the same. A characteristic +specimen of this type will +be described later on (p. 47).</p> + +<p>The plan of one of these designs +is illustrated in fig. <a href="#fig_33">33</a>.<a id="FNanchor_27_27" href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> +There are eight rectangular fields with two designs (1 and 2); those right +and left of the middle line and those above and below the horizontal +middle line are symmetrical in regard to form. In color, 1 corresponds +to 1<sup>b</sup> and 1<sup>a</sup> to 1<sup>c</sup>; also 2 corresponds in color to 2<sup>b</sup> and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span>2<sup>a</sup> to 2<sup>c</sup>. The colors being in all these cases, on the whole, reversed. +1, 2, and 1<sup>b</sup>, 2<sup>b</sup> have a yellowish background and a red field surrounding +the tree shaped design; +1<sup>a</sup>, 2<sup>a</sup> and 1<sup>c</sup>, 2<sup>c</sup> have a light red +background and a greenish field +surrounding the tree shaped figure. +The whole field, consisting of four +sections, is followed in the whole +decorated stripe by another set of +four sections in form like the preceding +one. In this the background +of 1 and 2, 1<sup>b</sup> and 2<sup>b</sup> is blue, of +1<sup>a</sup>, 2<sup>a</sup> and 1<sup>c</sup>, 2<sup>c</sup> yellowish. The +field surrounding the tree shaped +figure is yellowish in 1 and 1<sup>b</sup>, +greenish in 1<sup>a</sup>, and 1<sup>c</sup>. Taken as +a whole, the right side is practically +the same as the left, turned +upside down. The order of fields +on the left from the top downward +and for the right side from below +upward, is according to the color +of the background, abbreviating, +r red, y yellow, b blue:</p> + +<p class="center"> +r r y y / y y b b / r r y y / y y<br> +b b / r r y y / y y b b / r r y y /. +</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_27_27" href="#FNanchor_27_27" class="label">[27]</a> + Walter Lehmann, <span lang="de">Kunstgeschichte des alten Peru</span>, Berlin 1924, Plates 3 and 4.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp35" id="fig_34" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_048.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 34. Designs from Peruvian textile. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A second example is shown in +fig. <a href="#fig_34">34</a>. In this specimen the diagonally +arranged fields marked 1, <i>a</i>, +2, <i>b</i><a id="FNanchor_28_28" href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> have the same color scheme.</p> + +<p>The larger fields in 1 are yellow, the lesser black. The larger fields +in 2 are pink, the lesser grey. The background in <i>b</i> is grey, the scroll +purple. The background in <i>a</i> is dark grey, the scroll light purple.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_28_28" href="#FNanchor_28_28" class="label">[28]</a> + These remarks refer also to the fields marked as 1′, 1″ etc.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span></p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_35" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_049.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 35. Pot of coiled pottery, Prehistoric Pueblo Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Another fundamental element of decorative form is rhythmic repetition. +Technical activities in which regularly repeated movements are +employed lead to rhythmic repetition in the direction in which the +movement proceeds. The rhythm of time appears here translated +into space. In flaking, adzing, hammering, in the regular turning +and pressing required in the making of coiled pottery, in weaving, +regularity of form and rhythmic repetition +of the same movement are necessarily +connected. These rhythmic movements +always produce the same series of forms. +Examples of rhythmic surface forms determined +by perfect control of a technique +are found in many industries and in all +parts of the world. Exquisite regularity +of flaking is found in the Egyptian flint +knives (see fig. <a href="#fig_5">5</a>, p. 21). It is not so +frequent in the flaking of American Indians. +The adzed boards of the Indians of +the North Pacific Coast bear chipping +marks of great regularity that give the +appearance of a pattern (figs. <a href="#fig_6">6</a>, p. 23 +and 18, p. 30). On surfaces that are to be painted these marks +are often polished off with grit-stone or shark skin, while on unpainted +parts they are kept, presumably on account of their artistic effect. +In Oriental metal work the strokes of the hammer are so regular +that patterns consisting of flat surfaces originate. Other examples +of the artistic effect of the regularity of movement are found in the +prehistoric corrugated pottery of the North American South West. +The coils are indented by pressure of the fingers and a series of +indentations form a regular pattern on the surface (fig. <a href="#fig_35">35</a>). The +effect of automatic control is seen nowhere more clearly than in +basketry, matting and weaving. It has been pointed out before +(p. 20) that evenness of surface results from regularity of movement. +The rhythmic repetition of the movement leads also to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span>rhythmic repetition of pattern. This is most beautifully illustrated +by the best examples of California basketry.</p> + +<p>The virtuoso who varies the monotony of his movements and +enjoys his ability to perform a more complex action, produces at +the same time a more complex rhythm. This happens particularly +in weaving and related industries such as braiding and wrapping +with twine. Skipping of +strands,—that is twilling (see +fig. <a href="#fig_17">17</a>, p. 30) is the source +of many rhythmic forms and +twilling is undertaken by the +virtuoso who plays with his +technique and enjoys the +overcoming of increased difficulties.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_36" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_050.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 36. Necklace of Thompson Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In many cases rhythmic +complexity is clearly the result +of careful planning. I have referred before to the rhythmical arrangement +on fringes of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, (p. <a href="#Page_29">29</a>).</p> + +<p>Another good example (fig. <a href="#fig_36">36</a>) is a double necklace in which +the rhythmic series is—</p> + +<p class="center nowrap"> +black, red, yellow, green, blue, green, +</p> + +<p class="noindent">both in the inner and outer lines while the connecting links have +the order</p> + +<p class="center nowrap"> +black, red, yellow, green, red, blue.<a id="FNanchor_29_29" href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> +</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_29_29" href="#FNanchor_29_29" class="label">[29]</a> +In this specimen (see American Anthropologist, N. S., Volume 24, 1922, p. 188), +the connecting links between the two strings have been misplaced, the inner string +of beads being shifted three units to the right, i. e. the central connecting link +is attached to the first yellow bead to the left of the red center; the others being +shifted correspondingly. They have been corrected here so as to bring out the +arrangement which was evidently planned.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Dr. Reichard<a id="FNanchor_30_30" href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> has discussed a number of other examples from +the same region which have similar characteristics. In one example +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span>the arrangement of the fringe elements is more complex than in the +one previously described. Designating different colors by numbers +and dentalia shells by D, we find the order</p> + + +<p class="center mono"> +1 2 3 D 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 D 3 2 1<a id="FNanchor_31_31" href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> +</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_30_30" href="#FNanchor_30_30" class="label">[30]</a> + American Anthropologist l. c., pages 198-199.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_31_31" href="#FNanchor_31_31" class="label">[31]</a> Owing to a probable error the arrangement of the beads, the order of the last +five beads to the right is</p> + +<p class="center"> +<span class="nowrap">D 2 3 2 1</span> + <span class="pad1"> instead of</span> + <span class="nowrap pad1">2 D 3 2 1</span>. +</p> + +<p>The change of D and 2 makes the arrangement symmetrical. The same result +might be obtained by changing the first five beads from <span class="nowrap">1 2 3 D 2</span> to <span class="nowrap">1 2 3 2 D</span> and +leaving the right end undisturbed.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>Other examples of complex rhythms from this region have been +given by Dr. Reichard in the essay previously referred to.</p> + +<p>In some instances the rhythms are not so distinct, but nevertheless +discernible. As an example may serve a neckband consisting of +a double string in which beads of various colors are interspersed +among red beads in the following order</p> + +<p class="center mono clearx"> + —r— r——r———r ——— r————r———r——r— + / / / / | \ \ \ \ + —r——r——r ——r———rrr———r————r———r——r— +</p> + +<p>In Eastern Siberia similar conditions occur.<a id="FNanchor_32_32" href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_32_32" href="#FNanchor_32_32" class="label">[32]</a> +See W. Jochelson, The Koryak, Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, +Vol. VI, pp. 688 et seq.; and in the publication previously referred to by Dr. Reichard.</p></div> +</div> +<p>A fairly simple sequence is shown on an embroidered strip (fig. <a href="#fig_37">37</a> a) +consisting in regular sequence of squares followed by three narrow +strips; the middle strip is a little wider than the two lateral strips.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_37" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_052.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 37. Koryak embroideries. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A more complex rhythm is shown in figure 37 b. The long fringe +which is caught in the seam near the upper border of the embroidery +is repeated at regular intervals. An embroidered strip near the +upper part of the design is interrupted and the black bars on the +central white strip are omitted at these places. A division of the +upper row of embroidery, between the sets of fringes, into three +parts of unequal length will be noticed. Just under the breaks in +this row are two groups of tufts of seal fur, a little wider below +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span>than on top, and these are set off more definitely by the +arrangement of groups of white lines on the lower two rows.</p> + +<p>Still more complex are a number of borders embroidered in colored +yarn. In these we may distinguish between the rhythm of form and +of color (fig. <a href="#fig_38">38</a>). The arrangement is one combining symmetry with +rhythmic complexity. On one of these strips (fig. <a href="#fig_38">38</a> a) some of +the rectangles with rhombic checkerwork have a white background; +in these there are two rows of blue or purple diamonds at each +end and two rows of red diamonds in the centre (design 1). Other +rectangles have a yellow background with red diamonds at the sides +and blue ones in the middle (design 2). Besides these there is one +with red background and black diamonds (design 3). The colors of +the crosses are irregularly arranged. There are four with predominating +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span>red and white (design 4) and others with predominating yellow +and blue (design 5). The most symmetrical arrangement of this +strip requires a yellow rectangle in the middle of the front. One +end of the stripe, as shown in the illustration, has three short blue +bars on a red background (design 6). The peculiar cut at this end +fits into a corresponding cut at the other end and shows that the +stripe as it is has been taken from a garment. The general impression +of the design is that the rhythm and symmetry of the crosses +is subordinated to the symmetry of the rectangles. For this reason +I have placed the crosses in the following arrangement in the upper +line, the rectangles in the lower line.</p> + +<p class="center mono clearx"> + Crosses 4 5 5 5 4 5 4 4 5 4 6 +Rectangles 2 1 1 <i>2</i> 1 1 2 1 3 1 + Front Back +</p> + +<p>The embroidery on figure 38 b consists of four distinct elements; +a flower with leaves on each side (design 1); one branch with curved +leaves (design 2); one branch with terminal flowers (design 3). Besides +these there is one other element which occurs only once on +the back of the coat. It is marked design 4. The embroidered +stripe is not sewed symmetrically to the coat but has evidently been +placed in such a way that the arrangement in the front of the coat +corresponds to the sequence:—</p> + +<p class="center mono"> +2 3 2 1 <i>3</i> 1 2 3 2 +</p> + +<p class="noindent">while the back is occupied by three designs (3). The small design (4) +is found on the back. The whole arrangement of the small designs +on the back being</p> + +<p class="center mono"> +2 2 4 2 +</p> + +<p>Another specimen (fig. <a href="#fig_38">38</a> c) consists of a double leaf design on a +plain background alternating with another design consisting of three +crosses. This pair of designs occurs in regular succession five times, +but under the left arm it is interrupted by the two patterns shown +on the right hand side of the figure.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_38" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_054.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 38. Koryak embroideries. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In still another coat (fig. <a href="#fig_38">38</a> d) we find the same series of designs +in symmetrical arrangement on the front and back. The middle is +occupied by a cross and the other designs follow as indicated. Under +the right arm appears an additional design, consisting of a central +cross and rhomboidal fields with central dots; while under the left +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span>arm a single field is added differing in color from all the others but +related to them in form.</p> + +<p>An interesting feature in this series is the overlapping of form +and color. This condition appears even more clearly in designs from +ancient Peru. I observed the occurrence of this rhythmical form a +number of years ago and called the attention of Mr. Charles Mead +to the phenomenon.</p> + +<p>He described<a id="FNanchor_33_33" href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> a number of designs of this type which show a +rhythmic arrangement of six units, sometimes the same in form but +different in color. Sometimes with a double rhythm, one of form +and one of color.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_33_33" href="#FNanchor_33_33" class="label">[33]</a> + Charles W. Mead, Six-Unit design in Ancient Peruvian Cloth, Boas Anniversary +Volume, New York 1906, pp. 193 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Plate <a href="#plate_IV">IV</a>, fig. 1 represents a border of vicuna wool, consisting of a series +of diagonal bars all of the same pattern. The sequence of color is:</p> + +<div class="center"> +<ul class="clist"> +<li>1. Bright red (1) with brown (7) dots.</li> +<li>2. Blue (2) with pink (1*) dots.</li> +<li>3. Dull yellow (3) with brown (7) dots.</li> +<li>4. White (4) with pink (1*) & brown (7) dots.</li> +<li>5. Dark green (5) with red (1) dots.</li> +<li>6. Red (1) with green (2) dots.</li> +</ul> +</div> + +<p>The triangular patterns (Plate <a href="#plate_IV">IV</a>, fig. 2) have the following +sequence:</p> + + +<table class="pattable wd70"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">1.</td> +<td class="tdc">Background</td> +<td class="tdl"> white</td> +<td class="tdc">figures</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">spots</td> +<td class="tdl">dark blue.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">2.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark blue</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">3.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark blue.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">4.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">brown</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">5.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">light blue</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">6.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdc">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">light blue.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>The quadruple bird head pattern (Plate <a href="#plate_IV">IV</a>, fig. 3) has the following +colors for the background, bird, and bird’s eye:</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span></p> + +<table class="pattable wd70"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">1.</td> +<td class="tdc">Background</td> +<td class="tdl">pink</td> +<td class="tdc">1</td> +<td class="tdc">bird:</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">eye:</td> +<td class="tdl">pink.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">2.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">2</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">3.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">3</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">light yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">4.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark red</td> +<td class="tdc">1<sup>a</sup></td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">pink.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">5.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">2<sup>a</sup></td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark red</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">6.</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">3<sup>a</sup></td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">light yellow</td> +<td class="tdc">—</td> +<td class="tdl">light yellow.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_IV" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_056.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate IV.</span></p> + +Peruvian Textiles. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_39" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_058.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 39. Peruvian embroidery + from Ica. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A large cloak from Ica is embroidered with designs representing +a man with a bow and headdress (fig. <a href="#fig_39">39</a>). The figures are the +same all over, except that the position and the objects they hold +alternate right and left. The color scheme, however, varies: there +are six distinctive types. Considering +only the colors of coat, +legs and face we may arrange +them in the following order:</p> + +<table class="pattable wd30"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<th class="tdl">Coat.</th> +<th class="tdl">Legs.</th> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1.</td> +<td class="tdl">Yellow</td> +<td class="tdl">dark blue</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">2.</td> +<td class="tdl">purple</td> +<td class="tdl">red</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">3.</td> +<td class="tdl">red dark</td> +<td class="tdl">blue</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">4.</td> +<td class="tdl">blue dark</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">5.</td> +<td class="tdl">black dark</td> +<td class="tdl">blue</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">6.</td> +<td class="tdl">dark blue</td> +<td class="tdl">black</td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<table class="pattable wd30 p2"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<th class="tdl">Face, above.</th> +<th class="tdl">Face, below.</th> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1.</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +<td class="tdl">black</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">2.</td> +<td class="tdl">yellow</td> +<td class="tdl">white</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">3.</td> +<td class="tdl">brown</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">4.</td> +<td class="tdl">blue</td> +<td class="tdl">red</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">5.</td> +<td class="tdl">brown</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">6.</td> +<td class="tdl">dark yellow</td> +<td class="tdl">light yellow</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>The fifth and sixth type correspond in the rest of their +color schemes to the third and second types.</p> + +<p>The general arrangement of these types is as follows:</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span></p> +<p class="center mono clearx"> + 1 2 3 4 1 2 3<i><sup>a</sup></i> 4 1 6 5<i><sup>a</sup></i> 4 1 + 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 4 + 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 + 4 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 4 1 + 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 4 + 1 2 3 4 1 6<i><sup>b</sup></i> 5 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 + 4 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 4 1 + 2 3 4 1 6 5<i><sup>c</sup></i> 4 1 2<i><sup>b</sup></i> 3<i><sup>c</sup></i> 4 1 2 3 + 1 2 3 4 1 6 5 4 1 2 3 4 1 +</p> + +<p>In the actual arrangement there are apparently three mistakes. In +the first horizontal line, the two figures marked with the note <i>a</i> +have been exchanged. In line six and line eight the two figures +marked with the note <i>b</i> have been transposed and in line eight the +two figures with the note <i>c</i> have been exchanged. It will be seen +that when these transpositions have been effected the diagonal lines +running from the first row down to the left, follow a regular alternation +of types. Type 6 is clearly related to 2, and type 5 to 3. +Since in quite a number of woven garments regular diagonal sequences +may be observed, it seems likely that these were particular +determinants of the style. There are in all, six different types, but +if we imagine the lines continued, it would be found that the same +order will occur after twelve lines. The embroidery does not represent +a regular six-unit design but is rather a four unit design of +two distinct types—1 2 3 4 and 1 6 5 4,—in which the former type +is repeated twice and the latter once.</p> + +<p>Similar observations may be made on the fabrics illustrated in +Reiss and Stübel’s “Necropolis of Ancon”. I have selected a few +specimens that illustrate the rhythmic repetition of color. Figure 40<a id="FNanchor_34_34" href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> +represents a band with red background on which are animal figures +in the following sequence:</p> + +<p class="center"> +<i>purple</i>, yellow, <i>green</i>, yellow, <i>white</i>, yellow, <i>green</i>, yellow +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span></p><p class="noindent">in other words a sequence of eight units consisting of one purple +and one white design interrupted by the symmetrical color sequence +yellow, green, yellow. The yellow designs are surrounded by a +heavy black border.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_34_34" href="#FNanchor_34_34" class="label">[34]</a> + Reiss and Stübel, Necropolis of Ancon, p. 67 b, fig. 3.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_40" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_060_40.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 40. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_41" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_060_41.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 41. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In figure 41<a id="FNanchor_35_35" href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> we have another band which consists of diagonal +patterns framed by red lines except in one place where a black +frame is found. As on the preceding specimen the black serves to +separate the red and yellow. The design is the same all through, +and the order of the elements as follows:</p> + +<p class="noindent"> +<span class="pad1">yellow</span> <span class="pad2">red</span> + <span class="pad5">yellow</span> + <span class="pad2">brown</span> <span class="pad3">yellow</span><br> + <span class="pad2">black frame</span> <span class="pad1">black zig-zag</span> + <span class="pad1">red frame</span> <span class="pad1">red zig-zag</span> <span class="pad1"> red frame</span><br> +<br> +<span class="pad7">blue-green</span> <span class="pad2">yellow</span> <span class="pad2">purple</span><br> + <span class="pad9">red zig-zag</span> + <span class="pad2">red frame</span> <span class="pad1">red zig-zag</span> +</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_35_35" href="#FNanchor_35_35" class="label">[35]</a> Ibid, p. 67, fig. 6.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In other words the essential sequence is yellow, red, yellow, brown, +yellow, blue-green, yellow, purple; a series of eight elements.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span></p> +<figure class="figleft illowp80" id="fig_42" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_061_42.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 42. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In figure 42 we find a border of simple interlocking S shaped designs +in the order, white, dark blue, light blue, yellow, brown; a series +of five elements +which +are repeated +regularly.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_43" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_061_43.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 43. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Figure 43 +represents a +part of a design on a poncho in which, from above downward we +have a series of six pairs of a fret design in the following arrangement:</p> + +<div class="center"> +<ul class="clist"> +<li>green, red</li> +<li>yellow, blue</li> +<li>white, purple</li> +<li>yellow, brown</li> +<li>light red, black</li> +</ul> +</div> + +<p class="noindent">the sixth line repeats the +color sequence of the first.</p> + +<p>Figure 44 is a somewhat +complicated design which is +not completely shown in the +section here represented. +The principle of the pattern +is illustrated in figure 44<i>b</i>. +The sequence of color of +the S shaped head design +is purple, yellow, green, on +a red background.</p> + +<p>In figure 45 we have a +decorative band with the +color sequence yellow, green, yellow, green, light yellow, white, +yellow, green, yellow; obviously a series of six units. The designs +on the background of these colors are all in red.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_44" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_062_44.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 44. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_45" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_062_45.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 45. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_46" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_062_46.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 46. Peruvian fabric. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span></p><p>In figure 46 a border is shown which has the color arrangement, +from left to right:</p> + +<div class="center"> +<ul class="wd50 clist"> + +<li>pink—black,</li> +<li>red—yellow,</li> +<li>light gray—dark gray,</li> +<li>black—pink,</li> +<li>yellow—red,</li> +<li>dark gray—light gray.</li> +</ul> +</div> + + +<p>In this specimen there is a systematic inversion of color values; +what is light in the first set of three is dark in the second three. +This tendency is quite marked in a considerable number of cases. +We have for instance, a series of</p> + +<p class="center"> +white, red, yellow;—gray, pink, yellow, +</p> + +<p class="noindent">where the white corresponds to the dark gray and the red to the light pink.</p> + +<p>The tendency to this repetition of colors is shown very clearly in +Mexican codices. For example in the Codex Nuttall, p. 82 (fig. <a href="#fig_47">47</a>), +we find in the figure in the left hand lower corner a base in which +stepped triangles are used with the sequence: yellow, red, black, +yellow, purple, reddish brown. On the same page, the feather fringes +on the coats of the figures represented are in the same order. Quite +a number of feather dresses may be found in which the same order +is preserved, as for instance on page 81 of the same Codex. The +order in which these colors are given runs sometimes from left +to right; sometimes from right to left, as for instance in the feather +dress of the lowest left hand figure, page 81. Sometimes a different +set of colors is used. On the feather headdress of a figure, page 75, +we find the order:</p> + +<div class="center"> +<ul class="clist"> + +<li>white, red, yellow, blue, purple, brown,</li> +<li>white, purple, yellow, blue, red, brown (twice),</li> +</ul> +</div> + + +<p class="noindent">and the latter order is repeated in figures found on page 67 in the +left hand lower corner on a base; in reverse order on page 67 on +a feather coat and also on page 62 in stripes on the figures in the +lower right hand corner. It seems that in this codex the order of +colors is quite definitely fixed.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[53]</span></p> +<p>Remarkable rhythmic repetitions are found also on bead work +from the Zambesi. On quite a number of specimens the following +order of colors is regularly repeated:</p> + +<p><i>Black</i> white red yellow <i>green</i> yellow red white. Or written in +another way: <i>Green</i> yellow red white <i>black</i> white red yellow.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_47" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_064.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 47. Patterns from Mexican Codex. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>These occur on a belt, a woman’s apron, a necklace, and on two +mats<a id="FNanchor_36_36" href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a>. In a number of places blue is substituted for green, and +brown for red.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_36_36" href="#FNanchor_36_36" class="label">[36]</a> +Muller et +Snelleman, <span lang="fr">L’industrie des Caffres dans le sud-est de l’Afrique</span>. +Pl. XIX figs. 3, 5, 7. Pl. XXIV figs. 1, 2.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The rhythmic repetition and symmetry appears most clearly when +we substitute numbers for colors. I designate</p> + +<p class="center">White 1, Red 2, Yellow 3, Brown 3′, Blue 4, Green 4′, Black 5.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[54]</span></p> +<p>According to the description of the belt first mentioned, as given +by the authors, there is a regular repetition in the following order:</p> + +<p class="mono center"> +1 2 3 | <i>4</i> | 3´ 2 1 | <i>5</i> | 1 2 3 | <i>4´</i>| 3 2 1 | <i>5</i> | +1 2 3 | 4´| +</p> + +<p>The same order is found on the handle of an axe which is decorated +with colored zig-zag lines<a id="FNanchor_37_37" href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a>.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_37_37" href="#FNanchor_37_37" class="label">[37]</a> <i>Ibid.</i>, plate XI, fig. 1.</p></div> +</div> +<p>On a pouch<a id="FNanchor_38_38" href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> there is a lower field arranged in rows of diamonds, +followed by a middle field consisting of zig-zag bands, and an upper +field consisting again of diamonds.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_38_38" href="#FNanchor_38_38" class="label">[38]</a> <i>Ibid.</i>, plate XXIV, fig. 3.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In this the order is from below upward</p> + +<p class="mono center"> +2 1 <i>5</i> 1 2 3 <i>4</i> 3 2 | 4 3 5 1 5 3 5 1 | +<span class="fs80">diamonds zig-zags</span> +2 3 <i>4</i> 3 2 +<span class="fs80">diamonds.</span> +</p> + +<p>Like symmetry, rhythmic repetition runs generally on horizontal +levels, right and left, although not quite as preponderantly as symmetry.</p> + +<p>Piling up of identical or similar forms occurs in nature as often +as lateral symmetry. Plants with their vertical succession of leaves, +branches of trees, piles of stones, ranges of mountains rising behind +one another, may suggest vertical arrangements of similar elements. +However, much more common are repetitions in horizontal bands; +of simple arrangements of single strokes in rows; and of complicated +successions of series of varied figures that recur in regular order +(fig. <a href="#fig_48">48</a>, Plate <a href="#plate_V">V</a>).</p> + +<p>It follows from what has been said before that the forms here +discussed are not expressive of specific emotional states and in this +sense significant.</p> + +<p>This conclusion may be corroborated by a further examination of +decorative forms.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_V" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_066.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate V.</span></p> + + + Kumiss Goblets of the Yakut. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[55]</span></p> +<p>We have already indicated that the artistic value of an object is +not due to the form alone, but that the method of manufacture +gives to the surface an artistic quality, either through its smoothness +or through a patterning that results from the technical processes +employed. However, the treatment of the surface is not controlled +solely by technical processes. We may observe that in the art products +of people the world over other elements occur that are due +to the attempt to emphasize the form.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_48" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_068.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 48. Pottery vessels: <i>a</i> Finland; <i>b</i> Ica, Peru. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The application of marginal patterns is one of the most common +methods employed for this purpose. In many cases these are +technically determined. When, for instance, a woven basket is +finished off, it is necessary +to fasten the loose +strands and this leads +generally to a change +of form and surface +pattern in the rim. The +strands may be turned +down, wrapped and +sewed together, they +may be braided, or +woven together and left +standing as a fringe. In a bark basket the rim must be strengthened +by a band, to prevent splitting of the bark, and the band and the +sewing set off the rim from the body. A thin metal disk may have +to be strengthened by rolling in the outer rim.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_49" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_069.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 49. Birchbark vessels;<span class="nowrap"> <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, Amur River;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>c</i>, Shuswap;</span> + <span class="nowrap"> <i>d</i>, <i>e</i>, Alaska.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The birchbark basketry of western North America and of Siberia +presents an excellent example of a marginal pattern originating +through technical necessity and regularity of motor habits. Necessary +protection of the rim is obtained by sewing on a hoop. The +grain of the bark runs parallel to the rim and if the stitches were +all passing through the same grain the whole rim of the basket +would tear off. It is therefore necessary to make the holding stitches +of different lengths. This is done in the most effective way by +beginning with a short stitch which passes through the bark immediately +under the strengthening hoop, by making the next stitch a +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span>little longer and the following still longer. In this way the distance +from the first short stitch has become long enough to permit a +repetition of the new short stitch and by +continuing in this way a marginal pattern +of right triangles develops. The same +result may be attained by alternating a +few short stitches with a few long ones. +From this results a different type of +pattern. The same method is used by the +Golds of southeastern Siberia (fig. <a href="#fig_49">49</a><a id="FNanchor_39_39" href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a>).</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_39_39" href="#FNanchor_39_39" class="label">[39]</a> +See for a fuller description the remarks by F. Boas in James Teit “The Shuswap”, +Publications of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, + Volume II, page 478-487.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp40" id="fig_50" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_070.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 50. Pottery vessels; <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, + Chiriqui, Costa Rica; <i>c</i> Ontario. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In woodwork, pottery and in most +kinds of metal work these technical +motives are not present. Nevertheless +marginal patterns are widely distributed, +although they cannot be explained on +the basis of technical considerations. +It would be quite arbitrary to claim +that all these marginal patterns were +primarily suggested in those types of +technique in which a distinctive treatment +of the margin is a necessity, for +these are relatively few in number and +of highly specialized character, while +rim patterns are well nigh universal. +It is instructive to observe that in coiled +pottery the whole body of the vessel +is generally polished off and that sometimes +the impressions of the modelling +fingers are left on the rim. There is +no technical, compelling reason that +requires this mode of treatment, but it +is intelligible as an attempt to emphasize the form. Examples of +this mode of treatment are very numerous. Rows of small pellets, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[58]</span>moulded rims or incised lines along the rim of pots (fig. <a href="#fig_50">50</a>), small +marginal curves along the rim of bronze disks, lines accompanying +the rims of flat dishes and spoons such as are used by the Alaskan +Eskimo, incised lines on the rim of a soapstone pot of the Hudson +Bay Eskimo, and on their ivory combs (fig. <a href="#fig_51">51</a>), the spur line +decoration of all the Eskimo tribes (see fig. <a href="#fig_78">78</a>, p. 86), the jutting +out of the rims of dishes +from Oceania, or on pots +from ancient Europe are of +this kind. As F. Adama van +Scheltema has justly pointed +out, we cannot reduce +this world-wide tendency +to any other ultimate cause +than to a feeling for form, +in other words, to an esthetic +impulse that prompts man +to emphasize the form of +the object that he has made.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_51" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_071.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 51. <i>a</i>, Part of soapstone kettle; + <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, Ivory combs, Eskimo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a number of cases the +form is not so much accentuated +as rather set off, +closed in and separated from +the surrounding space by a +formal limitation, a marginal +line, thickening of the rim +or a sharp crest, by which means the individualization of the object is +attained. Quite often these limiting bands develop into decorative +fields and serve the double purpose of limitation and of decoration. +They may attain an individuality of their own.</p> + +<p>When the surface itself is decorated, these lines or ornamental +bands serve the additional purpose of limiting and closing the decorative +field. Examples of this kind are very numerous. We find +them in borders of our rugs, in architectural decoration, when the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[59]</span>corners and roof lines of a building are formed by ornamental stone +work, in book binding,—in short in practically all forms of modern +decorative art, but no less in primitive art. Blankets of the Alaskan +Indians (see figs. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> et seq., pp. 259 et seq.), bronze work of ancient +Scandinavia, prehistoric pottery of Europe and of Central America, +gable boards of New Zealand houses, belts from New Guinea, +baskets from British Guinea +(fig. <a href="#fig_81">81</a>, p. 90) and wooden +cups from the Congo region +illustrate this tendency +(fig. <a href="#fig_52">52</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_52" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_072.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 52. Wood carving, Bambala, Congo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are, however, many +cases in which the decoration +is so closely adapted to +the form of the object that +the stimulus for developing +a closing outline is not felt. +The decoration of the field +appears as a picture fitted +into the object. In still +other cases the smooth, +undecorated marginal field +serves as a border setting +off the central ornamented area. In basketry with radial decoration, +we find often a lack of border designs and a tendency to let the +ornament run right up to the rim where it seems cut off.</p> + +<p>Another characteristic trait of decorative art must be mentioned. +Not only is the general form emphasized and limited, but its +natural divisions are determining elements in the application of decorative +patterns and bring it about that the decoration is arranged in +distinct fields. This is very apparent in pottery in which a neck is +set off from a body or in which the body is divided by a sharp +angle into an upper and a lower part. Such types are found in +prehistoric European art as well as in America (fig. <a href="#fig_53_54_55">53</a>).</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[60]</span></p> +<p>On pouches of American Indians (fig. <a href="#fig_53_54_55">54</a>) body and flap are treated as +separate units. In moccasins, the uppers form a field separate from the +rim (fig. <a href="#fig_53_54_55">55</a>). In clothing, the patterns on collars, pockets or sleeves +are often considered as separate units. Wissler has called attention +to the influence of the structure of garments upon their decoration<a id="FNanchor_40_40" href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a>.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_40_40" href="#FNanchor_40_40" class="label">[40]</a> + Clark Wissler, Structural Basis to the Decoration of Costumes among the +Plains Indians, Anthrop. Papers Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 17, pp. 93 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_53_54_55" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_073.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 53. Pottery vessel, Molkenberg type, Megalithic period.</td> +<td class="tdc wd30">Fig. 54. Pouch, Arapaho.</td> +<td class="tdc wd30">Fig. 55. Embroidered moccasin, Apache.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The tripartite division of the decorative field of Alaskan woven +blankets is determined by the position of the blanket. The wider +middle field is on the back of the wearer, the narrower, lateral +fields are in front of the body (see figs. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> + et seq., pp. 259 et seq.).</p> + +<p>In garments made of single pieces of fabric, or in sewed basketry +(fig. <a href="#fig_56">56</a>) we find the seams sometimes decorated so that the +seam becomes a decorative element. In other cases seams are +accompanied by decorative bands. In leggings and shirts of American +Indians the seams are often emphasized by the attachment of fringes.</p> + +<p>In other objects prominent places are elaborated by the addition +of decorative elements.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_56" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_074_56.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 56. Birchbark vessels; <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, Eastern Indians; <i>d</i>, Koryak. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="fig_57" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_074_57.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 57. Pottery vessel, Arkansas. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[62]</span></p> +<p>In clay pots, the handles are so treated (fig. <a href="#fig_57">57</a>). On shields the +central knob becomes an object of decoration. The handles of canes or +other knob-like terminations are often elaborated as decorative elements.</p> + +<p>Sometimes fields without natural breaks, such as wall surfaces, are +treated as units. Examples of this kind are our modern wall papers, or +the painted walls of ancient Egyptian buildings. Often the tendency to +break up the decorative field is so strong, that even where a natural +division is not given it may be broken up into smaller parts. We may +notice particularly that the marginal lines which emphasize or limit +the form, develop exuberantly and thus encroach more and more upon the +body of the object. In baskets from the interior of British Columbia +the marginal pattern has grown to such an extent that it occupies the +whole upper half or even more of the basket and is itself subdivided +into a number of fields that follow the outline of the margin (fig. +<a href="#fig_58">58</a>). Similar conditions are found on the margins of blankets of the New +Zealanders (see Plate <a href="#plate_VIII">VIII</a>, p. 182) and on the bronze work of ancient +Scandinavia.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_58" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_075.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 58. Imbricated basket, Chilcotin, + British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Thus we reach the conclusion that a number of purely formal +elements, some of which are more or less closely connected with +technical motives, others with physiological conditions of the body +and still others with the general character of sense experience are +determinants of ornamental art. From this we conclude that a +fundamental, esthetic, formal interest is essential; and also that art, +in its simple forms, is not necessarily expressive of purposive action, +but is rather based upon our reactions to forms that develop through +mastery of technique. The same elements play also an important +role in highly developed art forms. If it is true that these elements +are in part not purposive, then it must be admitted that our relation +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[63]</span>to them is not essentially different from those we have towards +esthetically valuable phenomena of nature. The formal interest is +directly due to the impression derived from the form. It is not +expressive in the sense that it conveys a definite meaning or expresses +an esthetic emotion.</p> + +<p>It might be thought that this condition prevails only in the domain +of decorative art, and that representative art, dance, music, and +poetry must always be expressive. This is to a great extent true +so far as representative art is concerned, for the term itself implies +that the art product represents a thought or an idea. It is also +necessarily true in poetry, in so far as its materials are words that +convey ideas. Nevertheless a formal element may be recognized +in these also, a form element quite analogous to the one we found +in decorative art. It determines certain aspects of the characteristic +style. So far as representative art is ornamental, the formal principles +of decorative art enter into the composition and influence the +representative form. In dance, music and poetry, rhythm and +thematic forms follow stylistic principles that are not necessarily +expressive but that have objectively an esthetic value. We shall +discuss these questions more fully at another place<a id="FNanchor_41_41" href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_41_41" href="#FNanchor_41_41" class="label">[41]</a> +See p. <a href="#Page_301">301</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[64]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="REPRESENTATIVE_ART">REPRESENTATIVE ART</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">While the formal elements which we have previously discussed +are fundamentally void of definite meaning, conditions are quite +different in representative art. The term itself implies that the work +does not affect us by its form alone, but also, sometimes even +primarily, by its content. The combination of form and content +gives to representative art an emotional value entirely apart from +the purely formal esthetic effect.</p> + +<p>If has been customary to begin the discussion of representative +art with a consideration of the simple attempts of primitive people +or of children to draw objects that interest them. I believe that +the art problem is obscured by this procedure. The mere attempt +to represent something, perhaps to communicate an idea graphically, +cannot be claimed to be an art; just as little as the spoken word +or the gesture by means of which an idea is communicated, or an +object,—perhaps a spear, a shield or a box,—in which an idea of +usefulness is incorporated, is in itself a work of art. It is likely +that an artistic concept may sometimes be present in the mind of +the maker or speaker, but is becomes a work of art only when it is +technically perfect, or when it shows striving after a formal pattern. +Gestures that have rhythmical structure, words that have rhythmic and +tonal beauty are works of art; the implement of perfect form lays claim +to beauty; and the graphic or sculptural representation has an esthetic, +an artistic value, when the technique of representation has been +mastered. When a tyro attempts to create a work of art, we may +recognize and study the impulse, but the finished product teaches only +his vain efforts to master a difficult task. When man is confronted +with a new problem like the building of a house of new, unfamiliar +material, he is apt to find a solution, but this achievement is not art, +it is a work adapted to a practical end. It may be that the solution +is intuitive, that is, that it has not been found by an intellectual process, +but after having been solved it is subject to a rational explanation.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[65]</span></p> +<p>Just so when man has to represent an object, he is confronted with a +problem that demands a solution. The first solution is not an artistic +but a practical achievement. We are dealing with a work of art only +when the solution is endowed with formal beauty or strives for it. +The artistic work begins after the technical problem has been mastered.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_59" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_078.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 59 <i>a</i>. Embroidery, Huichol Indians, + Mexico. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>When primitive man is given a pencil and paper and asked to +draw an object in nature, he has to use tools unfamiliar to him, and +a technique that he has never tried. He must break away from +his ordinary methods of work +and solve a new problem. The +result cannot be a work of art,—except +perhaps under very +unusual circumstances. Just like +the child, the would-be artist is +confronted with a task for which +he lacks technical preparation, +and many of the difficulties that +beset the child beset him also. +Hence the apparent similarity +between children’s drawings and +those of primitive man. The attempt of both are made in similar +situations. A most characteristic case of this kind was told to me +by Mr. Birket-Smith. He asked an Eskimo of Iglulik to draw with +a pencil on a piece of paper a walrus hunt. The native was unable +to accomplish this task and after several attempts he took a +walrus tusk and carved the whole scene in ivory, a technique +with which he was familiar.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_59_60" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_079.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 59 <i>b</i>. Embroidery, Huichol Indians, Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 60. Decorated fishskin garment, Amur River.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The contrast between representation for the sake of representation +and representation as a work of art appears clearly in many cases. +I select a few examples. The Indians of the mountains of northwestern +Mexico wear beautifully embroidered or woven clothing, the +designs of which are largely based on Spanish motives. Heraldic +patterns and isolated animal figures combined with geometrical forms +are the constituent elements (fig. <a href="#fig_59">59</a> <i>a</i>). Besides these embroidered +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[66]</span>and woven fabrics, which are of excellent workmanship, we find +small embroidered rags (fig. <a href="#fig_59">59</a> <i>b</i>), which are attached to arrows and +serve the purpose of representing a prayer to a deity. A roughly +outlined figure of a child expresses a prayer for the health of the +child; that of a deer, a prayer for success in hunting. The arrows +with the attached rags are stuck into the thatched roof of a temple +where they are allowed to decay. They are not intended as works +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[67]</span>of art but only as representations that serve a temporary purpose; +hence the disregard of form and of exactness of workmanship.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_VI" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_080.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate VI.</span></p> + + + Shaman’s Dress, Amur River. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Quite similar observations may be made on the clothing of the +Amur tribes. The skin clothing worn by the people, particularly on +festive occasions, is beautifully ornamented in appliqué, or by painting. +The ornaments are in part geometrical, in part representative. Figures +of birds and fish abound (fig. <a href="#fig_59_60">60</a>). On the other hand the painted +dresses of shamans are roughly executed (Plate <a href="#plate_VI">VI</a>). They represent +mythological concepts and have a value solely on account of their +meaning. The interest does not center in the form. As compared +to wearing apparel they are crudely done, for the beauty of execution +is of minor importance.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_61" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_082.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 61. Upper row, pictographs of Ojibwa Indians; lower row, of Dakota Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A third example is found among the North American Indians of +the Great Plains. Their representative art, in the strict sense of the +term, is almost entirely confined to a crude form of picture writing. +They have not developed a high technique of painting and the forms +of horses, men, buffaloes and tents are merely reminders of incidents +in the life of the people. The figures (fig. <a href="#fig_61">61</a>) are in no way ornamental +and bear no relation to the object on which they are depicted. +They are made for the purpose of representation only. They are +not art in the rigid sense of the term. Judging from the character +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[68]</span>of the figures and their use we may safely say that the artistic interest +is entirely absent. We may even apply this observation to +the picture writing of the ancient Mexicans (fig. <a href="#fig_62">62</a>), which, as compared +to their sculpture, is of inferior value. The importance of +communicating ideas outweighs the artistic interest. We shall see +later on that nevertheless there +is a definite relation between +artistic style and the forms of +inartistic painting (see p. <a href="#Page_164">164</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_62" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_083.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 62. Mexican painting from Codex + Borbonicus. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Incidentally it may be remarked +here that the difference +in interest sometimes leads to +contrasting art styles, provided +the representative work is also +executed in a perfectly controlled +technique. Thus the Northwest +Americans who have a +very characteristic style of art +sometimes make carvings that +are intended to deceive by their +realism. In one of their ceremonies +a person is apparently +decapitated and after the decapitation +the head is shown +held by the hair. This head is +carved in wood and done with +great care in a most realistic fashion. It is entirely free of the +stylistic characteristics of Northwest coast carving and painting +(see fig. <a href="#fig_156">156</a>, p. 185).</p> + +<p>We revert now to a consideration of the simple, crude representative +drawings. The most important inference that may be drawn +from the study of such representations, graphic as well as plastic, is +that the problem of representation is first of all solved by the use +of symbolic forms. There is no attempt at accurate delineation. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[69]</span>Neither primitive man nor the child believes that the design or the +figure he produces is actually an accurate picture of the object to +be represented. A round knob on an elongated cylinder may represent +head and body; two pairs of thin, straight strips of rounded +cross section, arms and legs; or +in a drawing a circle over a rectangle +may suggest head and body; +straight lines, arms and legs; +short diverging lines at the ends +of arms and legs, hand and feet.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_63" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_084.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 63. <i>a</i>, Carved figure, Philippine Islands; + <i>b</i>, Marble figure representing + harpist, Thera. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The break between symbolic +representation and realism may +occur in one of two ways. The +artist may endeavor to render the +form of the object to be represented +in forceful outline and +subordinate all consideration of +detail under the concept of the +mass as a whole. He may even +discard all details and cover the +form with more or less fanciful +decoration without losing the effect +of realism of the general +outline and of the distribution +of surfaces and of masses. On +the other hand, he may endeavor +to give a realistic representation +of details and his work may consist of an assembly of these, +with little regard to the form as a whole.</p> + +<p>An excellent example of the former method is the Filipino wood +carving, fig. <a href="#fig_63">63</a> <i>a</i>. Head and chest show the concentration of the +artist upon the delimiting surfaces and an utter disregard of detail. +The same method is used in the figure of a harpist belonging to the +ancient art of the Cyclades (fig. <a href="#fig_63">63</a> <i>b</i>).</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[70]</span></p> +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_64_65">64</a>, an African mask, the surfaces of forehead, eyes, cheeks +and nose are the determinants of the form which has been treated +decoratively with the greatest freedom. There are no ears; the eyes +are slits with geometrical ornaments; the mouth a circle enclosing +a cross. In fig. 65, representing a painted carving from New Guinea, +the outline of the face, emphasized by the hair line, eyes, and mouth, is +easily recognized, but all the other parts are treated purely decoratively.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_64_65" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_085.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 64. Wooden mask, Urua, Congo.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 65. Carved board, Papua Gulf, New Guinea.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>The opposite method is found, for instance, in Egyptian paintings +and reliefs in which eyes, nose, hands, and feet are shown with a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[71]</span>fair degree of realism, but composed in ways that distort the natural +form and which are perspectively impossible (fig. <a href="#fig_66">66</a>). A still better +example is the drawing, fig. <a href="#fig_67">67</a>, an attempt of one of the best Haida +artists from Northern British Columbia to illustrate the story of an +eagle carrying away a woman. The face of the woman is evidently +intended as a three-quarter view. Facial +painting will be noticed on the left +cheek; the left ear only is shown as +seen in profile; the mouth with teeth +is placed under the nose in mixed full +profile and front view, and has been +moved to the right side of the face. In the lower lip is a large +labret shown <i lang="la">en face</i>, for only in this view was the artist able to +show the labret with its characteristic oval surface. The nose seems +to be drawn in profile although the nostrils appear <i lang="la">en face</i>.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_66" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_086_66.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 66. + + Egyptian painting. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_67" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_086_67.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 67. Haida drawing representing eagle + carrying away a woman. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a graphic representation of objects one of two points of view +may be taken: it may be considered as essential that all the characteristic +features be shown, or the object may be drawn as it appears +at any given moment. In the former case our attention is directed +primarily towards those permanent traits that are most striking and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[72]</span>by which we recognize the object, while others that are not characteristic, +or at least less characteristic, are considered as irrelevant. +In the latter case we are interested solely in the visual picture that +we receive at any given moment, and the salient features of which +attract our attention.</p> + +<p>This method is more realistic than the other only if we claim that +the essence of realism is the reproduction of a single momentary +visual image and if the selection of what appears a salient feature +to us is given a paramount value.</p> + +<p>In sculpture or modelling in the round these problems do not +appear in the same form. Here also attention may be directed +primarily towards the representation of the essential, and the same +principles of selection may appear that are found in graphic art, but +the arrangement of the parts does not offer the same difficulties that +are always present in graphic representation. As soon as man is +confronted with the problem of representing a three-dimensional +object on a two-dimensional surface and showing in a single, permanent +position an object that changes its visual appearance from +time to time, he must make a choice between these two methods. +It is easily intelligible that a profile view of an animal in which only +one eye is seen and in which one whole side disappears may not +satisfy as a realistic representation. The animal <em>has two</em> eyes and +<em>two</em> sides. When it turns I see the other side; it exists and should +be part of a satisfying picture. In a front view the animal appears +foreshortened. The tail is invisible and so are the flanks; but the +animal has tail and flanks and they ought to be there. We are +confronted with the same problem in our representations of maps of +the whole world. In a map on Mercator projection, or in our +planiglobes, we distort the surface of the globe in such a way that +all parts are visible. We are interested only in showing, in a manner +as satisfactory as possible, the interrelations between the parts of the +globe. We combine in one picture aspects that could never be seen +at one glance. The same is true in orthogonal architectural drawings, +particularly when two adjoining views taken at right angles to each +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[73]</span>other, are brought into contact, or in copies of designs in which the +scenes or designs depicted on a cylinder, a vase, or a spherical pot +are developed on a flat surface in order to show at a single glance +the interrelations of the decorative forms. In drawings of objects +for scientific study we may also sometime adopt a similar view-point, +and in order to elucidate important relations, draw as though we +were able to look around the corner or through the object. Different +moments are represented in diagrams in which mechanical movements +are illustrated and in which, in order to explain the operation +of a device, various positions of moving parts are shown.</p> + +<p>In primitive art both solutions have been attempted: the perspective +as well as that showing the essential parts in combination. Since +the essential parts are symbols of the object, we may call this method +the symbolic one. I repeat that in the symbolic method those +features are represented that are considered as permanent and +essential, and that there is no attempt on the part of the draftsman +to confine himself to a reproduction of what he actually sees at a +given moment.</p> + +<p>It is easy to show that these points of view are not by any means +absent in European art. The combination of different moments in +one painting appears commonly in earlier art,—for instance when +in Michel Angelo’s painting Adam and Eve appear on one side of +the tree of knowledge in Paradise and on the other side of the tree +as being driven out by the angel. As a matter of fact, every large +canvass contains a combination of distinct views. When we direct +our eyes upon a scene we see only a small limited area distinctly, +the points farther away appear the more blurred and indistinct the +farther removed they are from the center. Nevertheless most of +the older paintings of large scenes represent all parts with equal +distinctness, as they appear to our eyes when they wander about +and take in all the different parts one by one. Rembrandt forced +the attention of the spectator upon his main figures by strong lights, +as upon the swords in the great scene of the conspiracy of Claudius +Civilis and his Batavians against the Romans, but the distant figures +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[74]</span>are distinct in outline, although in dark colors. On the other hand, +Hodler, in his painting of a duel draws compelling attention to the +points of the swords which are painted in sharp outline while everything +else is the more indistinct the farther removed it is from +the point on which the interest of the artist centers.</p> + +<p>Traits considered as permanent characteristics play a rôle even in +modern art. Until very recent times the complexion of man was +conceived as essentially permanent. At least the strong changes that +actually occur in different positions have not been painted until very +recent times. A person of fair complexion standing between a green +bush and a red brick wall has certainly a face green on one side +and red on the other, and if the sun shines on his forehead it may +be at times intensely yellow. Still we are, or at least were, not +accustomed to depict these eminently realistic traits. We rather concentrate +our attention upon what is permanent in the individual complexion +as seen in ordinary diffuse daylight. We are accustomed to +see the accidental momentary lights weakened in favor of the permanent +impression.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_68" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_090.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 68. Egyptian drawings; above: bowl + and pitcher; below: sleeping person + covered by blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In primitive, symbolic representations these permanent traits appear +in the same way, sometimes strongly emphasized. It will be readily +seen that children’s drawings are essentially of the character here +described. They are not memory images, as Wundt claims, except +in so far as the symbols are remembered and reminders, but compositions +of what to the child’s mind appears essential, perhaps also +as feasible. A person has two eyes which have their most characteristic +form in front view, a prominent nose which is most striking +in profile; hands with fingers which are best seen when the palms +are turned forward; feet the form of which is clear only in profile. +The body is essential and so is the clothing, hence the so-called +Röntgen pictures in which covered parts are drawn. These drawings +are a collection of symbols held together more or less satisfactorily +by a general outline, although single traits may be misplaced. The +same traits prevail commonly in primitive drawings. When Karl von +den Steinen had the South American Indians draw a white man, they +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[75]</span>placed the moustache as a characteristic symbol on the forehead, +for it sufficed to place it as a symbol on the most available space. +The Egyptian paintings with their mixture of profile and front views +and transparent objects through which hidden parts may be seen +(fig. <a href="#fig_68">68</a>) must be viewed in the same manner. They are not by any +means proof of an inability to see and draw perspectively; they +merely show that the interest of the people centered in the full representation +of the symbols.</p> + +<p>When exceptionally great weight +is attached to the symbol, so that +it entirely outweighs the interest in +the outline, the general form may +be dwarfed and forms originate that, +from our perspective point of view, +lose all semblance of realism. The +most characteristic case of this kind +is found in the art of the Northwest +coast of America, in which the whole +animal form is reduced to an assembly +of disconnected symbols. A +beaver is adequately represented by +a large head with two pairs of large +incisors and a squamous tail (see pp. <a href="#Page_186">186</a> et seq.). However, in this +case we are no longer dealing with crude representations, but with +a highly developed art. Its form proves that in its development +symbolic representation has been of fundamental importance.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_69" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_091_69.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 69. Eskimo etching on walrus tusk, Alaska. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>The second form of representation is by means of perspective +drawing, in which the momentary visual impression regardless of +the presence or absence of characteristic symbols, is utilized. This +method is not by any means absent in the drawings of primitive man +as well as in those of children, but it is not as common as symbolic +representation. In a way most crude symbolic forms contain a perspective +element, although it does not extend over the whole figure, +but only over parts which are more or less skilfully put together, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span>so that a semblance of the general outline is maintained. This is +the case in Egyptian paintings, in those of Australians and in North +American picture writing (see figs. <a href="#fig_61">61</a>, <a href="#fig_62">62</a>). In other cases the art +of perspective drawing rises to real excellence. The silhouettes of +the Eskimo may be mentioned as a case in point (fig. <a href="#fig_69">69</a>). Their +figures are always small, scratched into ivory, antler or bone, and +filled with hachure or with black pigment. Form and pose are well-done. +Although there is generally no perspective arrangement of +groups, each figure is well executed and renders a single visual impression. +We find perspective of groups in the rock paintings of +South Africa (fig. <a href="#fig_70">70</a>), not perfect, but indicated by the overcutting +of figures and by the relative sizes of objects near by and of those +seen at a distance. Perspective realism of single figures is even +more fully developed in the paintings of later paleolithic man, found +in the caves of southern France and of Spain (fig. <a href="#fig_71">71</a>). Less skilful +efforts at perspective representation are not rare. On mattings from +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[78]</span>the Congo region, on basketry hats from Vancouver Island (fig. <a href="#fig_72">72</a>) +rather clumsy attempts have been made. In those from the former +region there are animals in profile in the latter whaling scenes: men +going out in a canoe and hauling in a harpooned whale.</p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_70" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_091_70.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 70. Bushman rock paintings. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Much more common are carvings in wood, bone or stone, or +pottery objects that are not symbolic but true to nature. Ivory carvings +of the Eskimo, Chukchee and Koryak (fig. <a href="#fig_73">73</a>), prehistoric carvings, +pottery from North America are examples.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_71" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_092.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 71. Paleolithic painting representing bison. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_72" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_093.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 72. Hat of the Nootka Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>As stated before, a sharp line between the two methods of graphic +representation cannot be drawn. In most cases symbolic representations +are at least in part perspective, either +in so far as the general form is maintained, +or as parts are shown in perspective form; +while perspective representations may +contain symbolic elements. When the +Pueblo Indian paints the form of a deer +with a fair degree of perspective accuracy +(see fig. <a href="#fig_142">142</a>, p. 167), but adds to it a +line running from the mouth to the heart +as an essential symbol of life; or when +the symbols are arranged with a fair +degree of correspondence to perspective order we have forms in +which both tendencies may be observed. Indeed, some degree of +conventional symbolism is found in every drawing or painting, the +more so, the more sketchy it is; in other words, the more the +representation is confined to salient traits. This is particularly true +in all forms of caricature.</p> + +<p>If representative art did develop into absolute realism, stereoscopic +color photography would be the highest type of art, but this is +obviously not the case. Setting aside the emotional appeal of the +object itself, an accurate copy of a natural object, such as a glass +flower, a painted carving, an imitation of natural sounds or a pantomime +may attain an intense emotional appeal, they may excite our +admiration on account of the skill of execution; their artistic value +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span>will always depend upon the presence of a formal element that is +not identical with the form found in nature.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_73" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_094.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 73. Koryak carvings. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Stress must be laid upon the distinctive points of view from which +the two methods of graphic representation develop, because the +development of perspective drawing is often represented as growing +out of the cruder symbolic method. As a matter of fact the two +have distinct psychological sources which remain active in the early, +as well as in the late history of art. Vierkandt<a id="FNanchor_42_42" href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> designates the +various methods of representation as suggestive (andeutend), descriptive +(beschreibend), and perspective (anschaulich). Of these the +former two correspond to what I have called here symbolic. They +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[80]</span>differ only in the more or less fragmentary character of the symbols. +The perspective type does not develop from the former two as the +result of an evolution; it is based on a distinct mental attitude, the +early presence of which is manifested by the realistic, perspective +paintings of a number of primitive tribes.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_42_42" href="#FNanchor_42_42" class="label">[42]</a> +<span lang="de">Das Zeichnen der Naturvölker, Zeitschrift für angewandte Psychologie</span>, Vol. 6, +(1912), pp. 347 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The theory of a continuous development from symbolic to realistic +art is one of the numerous attempts to prove a continuous development +of cultural forms, a steady, unbroken evolution. This view-point +has had a deep influence upon the whole theory of ethnology. +Evolution, meaning the continuous change of thought and action, or +historic continuity, must be accepted unreservedly. It is otherwise, +when it is conceived as meaning the universally valid continuous +development of one cultural form out of a preceding type, such as +the assumed development of economic forms from food gathering +through herding to agriculture. In past times these three stages were +assumed to be characteristic of all human development, until it was +recognized that there is no connection between the invention of +agriculture and the domestication of animals,—the former developed +through the occupation of woman who gathered the vegetable food +supply, the latter through the devotion of men to the chase. The +men had no occasion to become familiar with the handling of plants, +and the women had just as little opportunity of dealing with animals. +The development of agriculture and of herding can, therefore, not +possibly be derived from the same sources.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_74" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_096.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 74. Bronze casting, Benin. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It is no less arbitrary to assume that social forms must have +developed in regular universally valid sequence, one certain stage +always being based on the same preceding one in all parts of the +world. There is no evidence that would compel us to assume that +matrilineal organizations always preceded patrilineal or bilateral ones. +On the contrary, it seems much more likely that the life of hunters +in single family units, or that of larger groups in more fertile areas +has led to entirely different results. We may expect continuous evolution +only in those cases in which the social and psychological conditions +are continuous.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[81]</span></p> +<p>After this brief excurse, let us revert to our subject. Representations +become works of art only when the technique of their +manufacture is perfectly controlled, at least by a number of individuals; +in other words, when they are executed by one of the +processes, that are industrially in common +use. Where carving is practiced, we may +expect artistic form in carvings; where +painting, pottery, or metal work prevail, +artistic form is found in the products of +those industries in which the highest degree +of technical skill is attained. The Eskimo +carves in ivory, antler or bone, of which +he makes his harpoons and many other +utensils; his best representative work is +made with the knife and consists of small +carvings and etchings in which he applies +the same methods that he employs every +day. The New Zealander carves in wood, +makes delicate stonework, and paints; his +best representative work is made by these +methods. Metal work and ivory carvings +from Benin (fig. <a href="#fig_74">74</a>), headmasks from the +Cameroons (fig. <a href="#fig_75_76">75</a>, p. 82), wood carvings +from the Northwest coast of America (see +figs. <a href="#fig_154_155">154</a>-<a href="#fig_156">156</a>, pp. 184, 185), pottery from +Peru, from the Yoruba country (fig. <a href="#fig_75_76">76</a>, p. 82), +Central America and Arkansas (fig. <a href="#fig_77">77</a>, p. 85), +basketry of the Pima, embroideries (see +fig. <a href="#fig_39">39</a>, p. 47) and woven fabrics of the Peruvians are other examples.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_75_76" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_097.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 75. Headmask, Cross River, Cameroon.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 76. Terra cotta head from Ife, Yoruba country.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Since representations that are intended to have artistic value are +made in the most highly developed technique it is not surprising +that the formal style of the technique gains an influence over the +form of the representation. The angular lines of weaving with +coarse materials and the steplike forms of diagonals which are +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[82]</span>determined by this technique impress themselves often upon representations +and become part and parcel of a local style. There +develops an intimate relation between the formal and representative +elements that brings it about that representation receives a formal +value entirely apart from its significance. The deeper the influence +of the formal, decorative element upon the method of representation, +the more probable it becomes that formal elements attain an +emotional value. An association between these two forms of art is +established which leads, on the one hand to the conventionalization +of representative design, on the other to the imputation of significance +into formal elements. It is quite arbitrary to assume a one-sided +development from the representative to the formal or <i>vice +versa</i>, or even to speak of a gradual transformation of a representative +form into a conventional one, because the artistic presentation +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[83]</span>itself can proceed only on the basis of the technically developed +forms. At another place we shall discuss this subject more fully +(see pp. <a href="#Page_118">118</a> et seq.).</p> + +<p>In all aspects of life may be observed the controlling influence of +pattern, that is of some typical form of behaviour. As we think in +a pattern of objective, material causality, primitive man thinks in a +pattern in which subjective causality is an important element. As +our personal relations to blood relatives are determined by the +pattern of our family, so the corresponding relations in other societies +are governed by their social patterns. The interpretation of the +pattern may change, but its form is apt to continue over long periods.</p> + +<p>The same stability of pattern may be observed in the art products +of man. When a definite type has once been established, it exerts +a compelling influence over new artistic attempts. When its control +continues over a long period it may happen that representations +are cast in an iron mould and that the most diverse subjects take +similar forms. It appears then as though the old pattern had been +misunderstood and new forms had developed from it. Thus, according +to Von den Steinen, the figurines on carvings from the Marquesas, +which originally represented two figures back to back, have determined +the type of entirely new representations, or, as he prefers +to put it, they have been misunderstood and developed in new ways. +I do not doubt that in some cases this process of misinterpretation +occurs, but it is not the one that interests us at this place. Striking +examples of the overmastering influence of a pattern may be found +in many parts of the world. The style of the Northwest coast of +America is so rigid that all animal figures represented on plain surfaces +are cast in the same mould (see pp. <a href="#Page_185">185</a> et seq.); the overwhelming +frequency of the spiral in New Zealand is another example; +the interwoven animal figures of early medieval Germanic art; the +angular patterns of the North American Indians (see p. <a href="#Page_176">176</a>); all +these illustrate the same condition. In an art, the technique of which +does not admit the use of curved lines and in which decorative +patterns have developed, there is no room for curved lines, and the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[84]</span>curved outlines of objects are broken up into angular forms. The +patterns, or as we usually say, the style, dominates the formal as +well as the representative art.</p> + +<p>However, the style is not by any means completely determined +by the general formal tendencies which we have discussed, nor by +the relations between these elements and the decorative field, but it +depends upon many other conditions.</p> + +<p>One more point must be discussed here. Attention has been +called to the apparent absence of purely formal elements in the art +of those tribes that are from an economical and industrial point of +view most primitive, namely the modern Bushmen of South Africa, +the Eskimo of Arctic North America, the Australians, and in remote +times, the paleolithic hunters. The statement is not quite correct, +as has already been pointed out by Vierkandt, because other tribes +that live on the same industrial level, do not share these characteristics; +particularly the Veddah and the Andaman Islanders. Furthermore, +it is not by any means certain that the South African rock +sculptures were made by the Bushmen. It seems fairly certain +that the best ones of those recorded were made in early times and +that the living Bushmen know little about their origin. In the South +African paintings and petroglyphs and in the art works of the other +tribes mentioned before, we find a highly developed realistic art +which exhibits an astonishing truth of perspective perception, in rest +as well as in motion. Verworn has based on this observation a +distinction of what he calls the physioplastic and ideoplastic art; the +former containing truthful, momentary visual images, the latter representing +nature remodeled by thought and therefore, in a conventional +style.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_77" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_100.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 77. Pottery head from Arkansas. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I do not believe that the assignment of these styles to distinct +levels of culture is tenable, for physioplastic representations are not +by any means confined to the tribes of simplest economic structure, +nor, as indicated just now, are they common to all of them. We +must avoid in these matters, as well as in all other ethnic questions, +treating tribes too much as standardized units. Individual variation +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[85]</span>in physical appearance as well as in mental life is as important in +primitive society as in our own. There are artists and craftsmen +in all forms of society, as there are believers and unbelievers; there +are creative artists who rise above the level of the skilful artisan +and tradesmen who are satisfied with a slavish, though accurate +adhesion to existing patterns. +Where representative art has +fallen under the rigid control +of technique, there is little opportunity +for the development +of a naturalistic style; where +the technique is free, there we +may also expect free forms. +This condition is realized in +two ways, namely, in those +cases in which representative +art is not enslaved by a one-sided +technique, and under +conditions in which a high +degree of freedom in the use of +a variety of technical processes +has been attained. A study of +the whole range of art products +shows that where a technique is practised that gives tree range to +the development of form, naturalistic forms, that is forms relatively +free of stylistic mannerisms, although sometimes of bold generalization, +occur. Carving in wood, bone, ivory or stone, and modelling +in clay are the principal arts that give this freedom which is not so +easily found in graphic representation. Therefore we find in many +cultures that are otherwise under the strict control of conventional +style, at least occasionally figures in the round that are naturalistic. +Examples are found in the art of the North Pacific Coast; in bronze +castings, wood carvings and clay figures of Africa (figs. <a href="#fig_74">74</a>-<a href="#fig_75_76">76</a>); +in pottery of the ancient inhabitants of Arkansas (fig. <a href="#fig_77">77</a>); and in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[86]</span>stone work from Mexico, as well as in Peruvian pottery. On the +other hand, our modern realism is based on the emancipation from +a single rigid style that controls all art production. Such freedom +is not found to the same extent in primitive art with its more limited +number of technical processes.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_78" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_101.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 78. Ivory and bone carvings, and tattooing + of eastern Eskimo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Another error seems to me to <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: underly" id="underly">underlie</ins> the theory propounded by Max +Verworn. It is not only incorrect to assume that representations true +to nature are confined to tribes on the lowest economic and industrial +level, it can also be shown that at least those living at the present +time have ideoplastic art as well as physioplastic art. This is +particularly true of the Eskimo. While they do produce a remarkable +number of realistic carvings and etchings, they also have a number of +conventional, geometric designs which are of regular occurrence. Most +prominent among these are the alternating spurline and the sequence +of Y shaped figures (fig. <a href="#fig_78">78</a>). The latter has sometimes a symbolic +meaning, just as other conventional geometric designs among other +groups of people. With small circles at the end of the bifurcated Y +it is interpreted as a flower. Furthermore, the clothing of men and +women is always decorated with motives that indicate or emphasize the +parts of the body they cover, as the shoulderblades or the breastbone. +Particularly among the Alaskan is this conventional art ideoplastic in +the meaning of Verworn.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[87]</span></p> +<p>We have also shown examples of the geometric, ornamental art +of the Bushmen (fig. <a href="#fig_8">8</a>, p. 23); however, we do not know whether +it has a symbolic meaning. Their ornamental art is very meagre +because they have so little that can become the subject of ornamentation.</p> + +<p>It seems more than likely that man of later paleolithic time whose +implements are quite on the same level as those of modern primitive +tribes, who adorned his body and who used geometrical ornaments +on his bone implements, decorated also his clothing and other +perishable possessions of which no trace remains. If we imagine +the remains of the modern Indians of the plains, or those of +Australians exposed for thousands of years to the wet climate of +Europe, nothing would remain to give us an insight into the complexity +of their culture and into the existence of their symbolic, that +is, ideoplastic art.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[88]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="SYMBOLISM">SYMBOLISM</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">We have seen that in the art of primitive people two elements +may be distinguished; a purely formal one in which enjoyment +is based on form alone, and another one in which the form is +filled with meaning. In the latter case the significance creates an +enhanced esthetic value, on account of the associative connections +of the art product or of the artistic act. Since these forms are +significant they must be representative, not necessarily representative +of tangible objects, but sometimes of more or less abstract ideas.</p> + +<p>In our previous discussion we have also shown that representative art +may be, and generally is, strongly influenced by technical form, so much +so, that in many cases the natural prototype is not readily recognized.</p> + +<p>It is remarkable that in the art of many tribes the world over, +ornament that appears to us as purely formal, is associated with +meanings, that it is interpreted. Karl von den Steinen found that +the geometrical patterns of the Brazilian Indians represented fish, +bats, bees, and other animals, although the triangles and diamonds +of which they consist bear no apparent relation to these animal +forms. The design on top in figure 79 represents bats, indicated by +the black triangles. The figure below it represents the uluri, a small +object of clay used by women in place of a breech clout. The +third figure represents a fish, the large scales of which are indicated +by diamonds. The fourth and fifth figures also represent fish, while +the last one is called young bees.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_79_80" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_104.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 79. Ornaments of the Auetö Brazil.</td> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 80. Ornaments of the Karayá.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A number of clay dishes that were said to represent animals were +in part characterized by distinct heads, limbs, and tails, while others +bore no resemblance to the forms that they were claimed by the +natives to represent. A general similarity of form, however, exists +between the purely conventional and the realistic forms, which +suggested to Von den Steinen the conclusion that the former developed +from the latter. Later on Ehrenreich corroborated these +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[89]</span>observations both in South and North America. A small number +of designs with names are shown in fig. <a href="#fig_79_80">80</a>. The diamonds in the +first figure on top, represents wasps nests and may be compared to +the young bees in fig. <a href="#fig_79_80">79</a>. The zig-zag band in the second figure, which +is symmetrically arranged and has rhythmically repeated elements of +unequal lengths, represents bats. In form these are identical with the +frigate bird of New Ireland (see fig. <a href="#fig_100_101_102">101</a>, p. 107). The third figure +from the top represents the marking on the skin of the rattlesnake, +and the remaining figures also are marks on the skin of various snakes.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[90]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_81" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_105.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 81. Basketry patterns from British Guyana; <span class="nowrap"><i>a</i>, snake pursuing frog;</span> + <span class="nowrap"> <i>b</i>, man;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>c</i>, dog;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>d-f</i>, wild nutmeg</span>. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>W. E. Roth has recorded the significance of basketry designs of +the Indians of British Guiana.<a id="FNanchor_43_43" href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> Some of these designs contain +realistic figures, but many of them are geometrical derivatives of +zig-zag bands and meandric forms such as occur on coarse twined +basketry in many parts of the world. Most of these forms are +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[91]</span>explained as animals; some +identified by their form, +others imitating the pattern +of the skin or being suggestive +of parts of the body. +There are also a number +of plant representations (figs. +81, 82). In some of these +the meaning of the form is +readily recognized as in the +snake pursuing a frog (fig. +<a href="#fig_81">81</a> <i>a</i>) or in the human form +(fig. <a href="#fig_81">81</a> <i>b</i>). The body of the +snake is represented by a +broad meander, its head by +a triangle. To the right of +the head is the frog. Less +evident is the dog shown +in fig. <a href="#fig_81">81</a> <i>c</i>. The interpretation +of the designs in figs. +<a href="#fig_81">81</a> <i>d</i>, <i>e</i> and <i>f</i> and 82 seems +quite arbitrary. The meanders +fig. <a href="#fig_81">81</a> <i>d-f</i> represent +the wild nutmeg. In <i>e</i> the +vertical connecting bar of +the double T represents the +main branches, the horizontal +one the secondary branches. +Fig. <a href="#fig_82">82</a> <i>a</i> is called the centipede, <i>b</i> savanna grass, <i>c-f</i> periwinkles, +<i>g</i> butterflies, and the three designs <i>h-j</i> represent snakes. The square +in the pattern in the left hand lower corner of <i>j</i> is the head of the snake.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_43_43" href="#FNanchor_43_43" class="label">[43]</a> + W. E. Roth “Introductory Study of Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana +Indians” 38th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington 1924, +pp. 354 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_82" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_106.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 82. Basketry patterns from British Guyana; + <span class="nowrap"><i>a</i>, Centiped;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>b</i>, Savannah grass;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>c-f</i>, Periwinkles;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>g</i>, Butterflies;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>h-j</i>, Snakes.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Ehrenreich was the first to observe the highly developed symbolism +of the North American Indians and his observation gave the +impetus to the studies of North American art which were largely +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[92]</span>instituted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. +His observations were made among the Cheyenne, and on account +of their importance, they may be quoted here;<a id="FNanchor_44_44" href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> “Representations of +heavenly phenomena are found in their highest development among +the agricultural Pueblo tribes, whose whole cult consists essentially in +magic performances +intended to secure +rain. Besides this, geographical +motives +are used, such as +mountains, rivers, +trails, camping sites, +which are important +to the Indians who +inhabit the endless +prairies. A typical +example is found on +the ornament taken +from a moccasin (fig. +<a href="#fig_83">83</a> <i>a</i>) in which a +dark blue series of +triangles represent +mountains, a light +blue stripe a river, +a red one a trail. +A second ornament, +also taken, from a +moccasin (Fig. <a href="#fig_83">83</a> <i>b</i>) +shows a series of tents. Red dots in the triangular tents represent fire.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_44_44" href="#FNanchor_44_44" class="label">[44]</a> +<span lang="de">Ethnologisches Notizblatt</span>, vol. II, 1, pp. 27 et seq. (1899).</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figleft illowp65" id="fig_83" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_107.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 83. Designs of the Cheyenne Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>“The hoods of cradle boards are generally richly ornamented. +The design of a specimen purchased by me is of peculiar interest +on account of the representation of abstract ideas (Fig. <a href="#fig_83">83</a> <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>). As +usual, the upper surface of the hood is white, which color, in the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[93]</span>symbolism of the Indians designates the sky and life. The margin +is formed by a green line and the whole surface is divided into +three fields by two convergent blue lines. The large lateral fields +are strictly symmetrical. They contain three groups of stars represented +by rectangles. The lowest line,—four red rectangles with +enclosed green centers,—represent large, bright stars; and the top +row, red without centers, are the children of the stars. It is uncertain +whether by this term the smallest stars or falling stars are +meant.</p> + +<p>“The middle field, bounded by blue lines, represents the path +of life of the child. In this field are found peculiar green figures +which terminate above and below in T shaped ends. They are +diamond-shaped and enclose a red and yellow checkerwork. They +designate the child’s good luck or the success that he will have in +life. In this case green symbolizes growth and development; yellow, +maturity and perfection; red, blood, life and good-fortune; all of +which are related to the deities. The lower rim of the hood is +interrupted on both sides by small white and blue squares. These +are said to represent the child’s age. I did not learn what was +meant by this expression. Probably the change of seasons was +meant, since the alternation of blue and white signifies the change +of winter and summer.</p> + +<p>“The hood ends in a square flap which bears in its center a +green diamond terminating in cross bars, but smaller and simpler +than the corresponding figures of the central field. It represents +the heart. The blue lines and angles in the corners of the flap +are continued in the same way on the opposite side. They represent +the unexpected events of life. Attachments on each side are +the child’s ears; the short lines of beads embroidered on the back +of the flap represents the hair of the child.”</p> + +<p>Based on these results a somewhat extended study of the symbolism +of American Indian art was undertaken, in the course of +which A. L. Kroeber investigated the art of the Arapaho; Roland +B. Dixon, that of the Californian tribes; Clark Wissler, that of the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[94]</span>Sioux and Blackfeet, and H. H. St. Clair that of the Shoshone. +Later on the study was extended over other adjacent areas.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_84_85" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_109.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable wd100"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 84. Moccasin, Arapaho.</td> +<td class="tdc wd60">Fig. 85. Knife case, Arapaho.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The results obtained by Kroeber indicate a close similarity between +the symbolism of the Arapaho and that of the Cheyenne. Here +also abstract ideas appear in considerable number. It will suffice +here to give a few examples. On a moccasin<a id="FNanchor_45_45" href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> (fig. <a href="#fig_84_85">84</a>) “the longitudinal +stripe signifies the path to destination. A small stripe at the +heel of the moccasin (not shown in the figure) signifies the opposite +idea, the place whence one has come. The variety of color in the +larger stripe represents a variety of things (which naturally are of +many different colors) that one desires to possess. The small dark blue +rectangles are symbols that are called ‘hiiteni’<a id="FNanchor_46_46" href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a>. The white +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[95]</span>border of this moccasin, on account of its color, represents snow. +The figures in it represent hills with upright trees. The stripe over +the instep signifies ‘up hill and down again’ (its middle portion +being elevated above the ends by the instep of the foot). The dots +in this stripe represent places left bare by the melting snow.” The +knife scabbard<a id="FNanchor_47_47" href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> represented in fig. <a href="#fig_84_85">85</a> “has at the top a cross signifying +a person. The triangles above and below it are mountains. On the +lower part, on the middle line, are three green squares, symbols of +life or abundance. Red slanting lines pointing +towards the squares are thoughts or wishes directed +towards the desired objects, represented by the +life symbols.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_45_45" href="#FNanchor_45_45" class="label">[45]</a> + A. L. Kroeber, The <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Arapho" id="Arapho">Arapaho</ins>, Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, +Vol. XVIII, pp. 39, 40.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_46_46" href="#FNanchor_46_46" class="label">[46]</a> <i>Hiiteni</i> is explained as meaning life, abundance, food, prosperity, temporal +blessings, desire or hope for food, prayer for abundance, or the things wished for +(A. L. Kroeber, <i>ibid.</i>, p. 40).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_47_47" href="#FNanchor_47_47" class="label">[47]</a> l. c. p. 88.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp20" id="fig_86" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_110.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 86. Legging, + Sioux Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Observations among the Sioux Indians made +by Clark Wissler have given similar results. +The design on a legging (fig. <a href="#fig_86">86</a>) may serve as +an example. It represents a battle.<a id="FNanchor_48_48" href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> The diamond-shaped +center is here the body of a man. +The large triangles are the tents of the village in +which the battle took place. The pronged figures +represent wounds and blood; the straight lines +supporting them, the flight of arrows. The crossed +lines are said to represent arrows and lances.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_48_48" href="#FNanchor_48_48" class="label">[48]</a> Clark Wissler, Decorative art of the Sioux Indians, Bulletin American Museum +of Natural History, Vol. XVIII, p. 253.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>The Assiniboine, a closely related branch of the Sioux, did not +yield much information in regard to the meaning of designs, but the +few fragments collected by Robert H. Lowie<a id="FNanchor_49_49" href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a> show that the principles +found among other tribes are or were not unknown to them. +The designs found on a drum illustrate this (fig. <a href="#fig_87">87</a>).</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_49_49" href="#FNanchor_49_49" class="label">[49]</a> Robert H. Lowie, The Assiniboine, Anthropological Papers American Museum +of Natural History, Vol. IV, p. 26.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_87" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_111.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 87. Drum of the Assiniboine. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>“The gray central field is itself a drum; the concentric rings +around it are rainbow symbols, and the four sets of slanting lines +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[96]</span>(yellow, black and whitish) represent the sunshine. The green color +between these lines denotes clouds; the four following rings the +rainbow, and the external ring has no ascertainable meaning. On +the other side there is a star in the +center; the black circle stands for +night, the blue color at the circumference +for twilight, and the oblique +red, yellow and white lines for the +sunshine.”</p> + +<p>Some <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Arapho2" id="Arapho2">Arapaho</ins> designs are interpreted +as representing geographical +features or a village in its geographical +environment. In the specimen +shown in (fig. <a href="#fig_88_89">88</a>) “the two large triangles +at the end represent tents; the +center diamond two tents; between +them a white stripe with black dots +in it represents a buffalo path with +buffalo tracks in it. The four red +obtuse triangles along the sides are +mountains; small yellow triangles enclosed +by them are tents; the double +blue lines surrounding the entire +pattern represent mountain ranges. +Small rectangles in this border, +colored red and yellow, represent +lakes.”</p> + +<p>Geographical interpretations are +quite common among most of the +Indian tribes of the Great Plains. +Mountains, caves, trees, streams, lakes, trails, and tents are commonly +symbolized in the angular forms of their paintings and embroideries. +As compared to these the association between abstract ideas and +geometric form is <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: rater" id="rater">rather</ins> rare.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[97]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_88_89" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_112.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable wd100"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 88. Rawhide bag, Arapaho.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 89. Design from parfleche, Shoshone.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A few examples may also illustrate the explanations given by +Shoshone Indians.<a id="FNanchor_50_50" href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> The interpretations are largely geographic. In +fig. <a href="#fig_88_89">89</a> the red central rectangle represents the ground, the green +background trees. On this green ground is a lake, indicated by the +blue area in the center, the yellow line dividing the central field, +is an inlet of the lake. The obtuse blue triangle on the sides of the +central rectangle represents mountains with timber. The triangles +on the short sides are also mountains. The yellow apex is the sun +shining on the mountains, the red middle part of the triangle the +ground, the green area at the base, grass at the foot of the mountains. +In the corners we find small triangles representing sand and +over them the yellow sun light.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_50_50" href="#FNanchor_50_50" class="label">[50]</a> These are taken from observations by H. H. St. Clair at Wind River Reservation. +Lowie did not succeed in obtaining any explanations at the Lemhi Agency, Idaho.</p></div> +</div> + + +<p>On a second Shoshone parfleche obtuse triangles in the central +rectangle and smaller triangles in the longitudinal borderstrips represent +mountains, a red line in the center stands for a river, and +right angle triangles are tipis.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[98]</span></p> +<p>Another Shoshone parfleche of similar pattern, was explained as +follows: a blue line enclosing an inner rectangle is a fort or +enclosure surrounded by the enemy, represented by red and green +squares of the border. A yellow and red line passing through +the center is the pass by which the people escape.</p> + +<p>A consistent geographically explained ornament has also been +described by Stephan (fig. <a href="#fig_90_91">90</a>). The upper zig-zag line (<i>a</i>) represents +a snake; the rectangular fields under it (<i>b</i>), the sea moved by +the wind. The dark corners of the rectangle (<i>c</i>) indicate calm on +deep water. The central field with cross hachure (<i>d</i>), rain on the sea +or ripples on the water. The lowest bands (<i>e</i>, <i>f</i>) and the top band +(<i>a</i>) do not belong to the sea picture. (<i>e</i>) is explained as the veins +of the <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: cocanut" id="cocanut">coconut</ins> leaf, (<i>f</i>) as a kind of grass.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_90_91" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_113.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 90. Bamboo case, Melanesia.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 91. Zuni bowl, broken and edges ground down.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In the opposite end (<i>a</i>) is not explained, (<i>b</i>) is a snake. The rest of +the design fits in with the geographical pattern, (<i>c</i>) being rocks beaten +by breakers.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[99]</span></p> +<p>I am indebted to Miss Ruth L. Bunzel for the following consistent +interpretation of a Zuni bowl,—part of a deep bowl the upper +part of which has been broken off. Her informant explained it as +follows (fig. <a href="#fig_90_91">91</a>): “We call the whole design ‘cloud all alone’. When +a person does not go to the dances when they dance for rain, after +her death she goes to the Sacred Lake and when all the spirits of +the other dead people come back +to Zuni to make rain, she cannot +go, but must wait there all +alone, like a single little cloud +left in the sky after the storm +clouds have blown over. She +just sits and waits all alone, +always looking and looking in +all directions, waiting for somebody +to come. That is why +we put eyes looking out in all +directions.”</p> + +<p>Consistent symbolic interpretations +have also been given +for ceremonial objects of the +Huichol Indians.<a id="FNanchor_51_51" href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_51_51" href="#FNanchor_51_51" class="label">[51]</a> Carl Lumholtz, Symbolism of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs American Museum +of Natural History, Vol. III, page 125, fig. 133.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_92" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_114.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 92. Ceremonial object, Huichol + Indians, Mexico. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_93" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_116_93.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 93. Woven ceremonial + object, Huichol Indians, + Mexico. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>On a “front shield”, a sacred object (fig. <a href="#fig_92">92</a>) fertility symbols +are represented by geometrical figures: “The cross in the center +represents four clouds on the horizon, the colored segments completing +the inner circle represent red and blue birds (swifts) soaring +above the clouds. In the second circle are shown crosses representing +red, yellow and blue corn. In the outer zone is a zig-zag +line in red and blue representing Mother East-water, a Deity. Nine +triangles between head and tail of the serpent, crowded together, +represent mescal (a narcotic cactus) which is considered related to +corn and is held as a prayer for rain and for health.”</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[100]</span></p> +<p>Another example is a sacrificial back shield (fig. <a href="#fig_93">93</a>),<a id="FNanchor_52_52" href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> in which +the symbol (<i>a</i>) represents a serpent, (<i>b</i>) white clouds, (<i>c</i>) black +clouds, (<i>d</i>) rain, (yellow and white stripes); (<i>e</i>) three flowers, (<i>f</i>) a +squash vine, these two representing vegetation, springing up after +rain; and (<i>g</i>) the earth with its hills.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_52_52" href="#FNanchor_52_52" class="label">[52]</a> Page 146, fig. <a href="#fig_173">173</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_94" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_116_94.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 94. Design from a + pouch, Huichol Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Similar representations are found in embroideries in woven garments, +thus a zig-zag line on a pouch<a id="FNanchor_53_53" href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> (fig. <a href="#fig_94">94</a>) represents lightning, +the crosses the Pleiades.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_53_53" href="#FNanchor_53_53" class="label">[53]</a> Carl Lumholtz, Decorative Art of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs American +Museum of Natural History, Vol. III, p. 325, fig. 257.</p></div> +</div> + + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_95" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_116_95.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 95. Tattooing designs, Marquesans. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Turning to Polynesia, von den Steinen<a id="FNanchor_54_54" href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> has given us a full +description of tattooing of the Marquesans, from which it appears +that in the minds of the natives the designs have definite significance. +I mention a series of black triangles on rectangular bases, called +the Fanaua, women who died in child birth (fig. <a href="#fig_95">95</a> <i>a</i>); the cumulus +clouds of the northwind (fig. <a href="#fig_95">95</a> <i>b</i>). In fig. <a href="#fig_95">95</a> <i>c</i> the upper row was +called by one informant, “the fellow with the step of the rooster”, +the lower one “the hero Pohu and his house”. Another informant +from another village, designated the figures with raised arms as +legendary miscarriages consisting of a chest, the low semicircular +and rectangular figures as others consisting of ribs only. Of the +two analogous figures, <a href="#fig_95">95</a> <i>d</i> and <i>e</i>, the former is called a crab, the +latter a turtle, while <a href="#fig_95">95</a> <i>f</i> is called the bath of the hero Kena.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_54_54" href="#FNanchor_54_54" class="label">[54]</a> + Karl von den Steinen,<span lang="de"> Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst</span>, Berlin 1925; also W. C. +Handy, Tattooing in the Marquesas, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 7, +Honolulu 1922.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>We find in our civilization cases in which form or color composition +possess symbolic significance entirely apart of their form values. The +most obvious case is that of the national flags. They are not only +ornamental, but possess a strong emotional appeal. They call forth the +feeling of national allegiance and their values cannot be understood +on a purely formal basis, but are founded upon the association of the +form with definite fields of our emotional life. The same is true of +certain symbols. In Germany, at the <span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[101]</span>present time, the swastika as the +symbol of antisemitism, and the David’s star as the Jewish symbol have +very definite political significance and are apt to excite the most +violent passions when used for decorative purposes,—not on account of +their form, but because of the emotional reaction to the ideas they +represent. Military insignia, emblems of secret societies, students’ +emblems and other regalia exert the same influence through their +associations. Owing to the strong emotional value of these patterns and +the specific character of the associations, the use of the ornament may +be restricted to special classes of objects, or reserved for privileged +classes or individuals. Thus, among ourselves, the cross, or the <span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[102]</span>flag, +cannot appropriately be used at all places and at all times, and +insignia of rank are confined to those who have the right to wear them. +Just so, totemic devices may be used only by the privileged, not by +those who belong to another totem. Strong emotional values are commonly +associated with all forms that are used in important rituals. The +simple ornaments of cedarbark dyed red which are used by the +Indians of British Columbia have such an appeal, because the ornamental +attachments symbolize the gifts that the wearer has received from his +supernatural protector.</p> + +<p>It is readily recognized that these conditions can prevail only +when the interpretation of the ornament, and with it its emotional +significance are firmly established in the minds of the people; if all +react without fail, without hesitation to the same pattern. This is +not by any means the case everywhere. On the contrary, many +cases are known in which there is considerable wavering in regard +to the meaning of the symbol. One person may interpret it one +way, another, another way. For instance, in the designs of the +Californian Indians, the same form will be called by different people, +or even by the same person at different times, now a lizard’s foot, +then a mountain covered with trees, then again an owl’s claw. It is +conceivable that an individual may feel a strong emotional value +of a design, but in a case of variable associations the symbol has +no binding emotional value for the whole tribe. It will be the +less relevant the more variable the individual and tribal associations. +I believe this is also the reason why among ourselves an expressionistic +art is impossible, or why at least it cannot appeal to +the people as a whole. It is possible for an artist to train a group +of followers and admirers in the symbolism that he cultivates, but +it is exceedingly unlikely that such symbolism should develop in +such a way that it would be felt automatically by all of us. In +music a few associations of this type exist. We feel, for instance, +the difference of mood in the major and minor keys; the former +mood joyful and energetic; the latter gentle, moody or even sad. +It is well to remember that these emotional tones are not by any +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[103]</span>means everywhere connected with these two forms, but that in the +music of other people that have something comparable to our major +or minor, the relations may be quite different. We also feel a certain +energy connected with the major key of E flat, but undoubtedly +this is due to very specific associations that are not valid in +other cultural areas.</p> + +<p>Expressionistic art requires a +very firm and uniform cultural +background, such as is possessed +by many peoples of simple social +structure, but that cannot exist +in our complex society with its +manifold, intercrossing interests +and its great variety of situations +that create different emotional +centers for each of its +numerous strata.</p> + +<p>It is, therefore, important to +know whether there exist firm +associations between form and +significance, and whether these +associations are accompanied by strong emotional reactions.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_96" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_118.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 96. Patterns representing the star, + Arapaho. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The former question may be investigated in two ways: By studying +the variety of forms which are used to represent the same +objects, and conversely by illustrating the variety of explanations +given to the same form. <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Arapho" id="Arapho3">Arapaho</ins> designs collected by Kroeber offer +a favourable field for this study. The range of forms interpreted +as the star (fig. <a href="#fig_96">96</a>) is based on the tendency in the art of the +Plains Indians to use triangular and quadrangular figures and narrow +lines, and on the scarcity of polygons. We find, therefore, as +representations of stars, crosses, groups of squares, diamonds and a +cross with triangular wings. In the last quite exceptional figure of +this series the star is represented by a hexagon. In some cases +the association between the form and its meaning becomes more +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[104]</span>intelligible through the general setting in which the design element +is found, as for instance, through the color contrast between design +and background.<a id="FNanchor_55_55" href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_55_55" href="#FNanchor_55_55" class="label">[55]</a> See A. L. Kroeber “The Arapaho”, +Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 17.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The variety of forms which are used to represent a person may +serve as another example (fig. <a href="#fig_97">97</a>). Some of these are similar to +the forms used to represent the star.</p> + +<p>Still another example is the representation of the butterfly (fig. <a href="#fig_98">98</a>). +In this series one of the designs representing the star will be found.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_97" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_119_97.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 97. Patterns representing + persons, Arapaho. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_98" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_119_98.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 98. Patterns representing + butterfly, Arapaho. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_99" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_119_99.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 99. Examples of chevrons from Neu-Mecklenburg; + <i>a</i>, Carved bamboo; <i>b</i>, Embroidered + mat. The chevron to the left on + the bamboo represents a palm leaf, an armring + or a worm; the same design on the mat, tracks + of a crustacean. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Conversely a diamond is explained as a person, a turtle, the +navel, a mountain, a lake, a star, an eye. The setting of the design +does not by any means explain sufficiently why these varying interpretations +should be used.</p> + +<p>A rectangle represents a camp circle, brush hut, a mountain, the +earth, a buffalo or life; a triangle with an enclosed rectangular or +pentagonal figure (see fig. <a href="#fig_117">117</a>, p. 120) is explained as a mountain +with trees, a cave in the mountain, a brush hut or a tent.</p> + +<p>The second form in fig. <a href="#fig_98">98</a> is explained as a butterfly or the +morning-star.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[105]</span></p> +<p>In bead embroidery we find frequently a central design in the +form of a diamond, from the acute angles of which, extend straight +lines. To the ends of these triangular designs or other small forms +are attached. In fig. <a href="#fig_152">152</a> (p. 178) some of these designs are shown. The +first one is taken from a pouch (<i>j</i>); the central diamond represents a +person, the triangular designs at the ends of the lines, buffalo hoofs. +A similar design (<i>k</i>) from a moccasin represents the navel and +arrows; the background is snow. In a third example (<i>q</i>) the central +diamond represents a turtle, the lines its claws and the small +patterns at the ends of these lines, eggs.</p> + +<p>Another example of the variation of explanation of the same +design is found in designs from New Ireland<a id="FNanchor_56_56" href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a> (fig. <a href="#fig_99">99</a>). The chevron +represents the leaf of a palm, an armring, a worm, the foot of a +bird, tracks of a crustacean, or fish bones.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_56_56" href="#FNanchor_56_56" class="label">[56]</a> Stephan, <span lang="de">Neu-Mecklenburg</span>, p. 114, fig. <a href="#fig_120">120</a>. + The same figure is found in the +same author’s <span lang="de">“Südseekunst”</span>, p. 15, fig. <a href="#fig_19_20">19</a>, with somewhat different explanations, +presumably due to an oversight.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The great variety of these interpretations of the same figure and +of the many forms by means of which the same ideas find expression, +show clearly that the terms by which designs are described +must not be conceived simply as names, but that rather a certain +association exists between the general artistic pattern and a number +of ideas which are selected according to tribal usage, and also in +accordance with the momentary interest of the person who gives +the explanation.</p> + +<p>Often the range of ideas associated with forms follows a fairly +definite pattern in each tribe. We may compare this condition with +attitudes which we assume in regard to forms that may have +varying types of symbolic connotation. To a Canadian, a British +flag surmounted by maple leaves would be closely associated with +patriotic feeling, and in this connection the maple leaf has a definite +significance; in other combinations it may appear with quite a +different meaning. A red maple leaf may be symbolic of the fall +of the year.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[106]</span></p> +<p>During the World War the bloody hand was used on posters +to excite the populace to hatred, because it was symbolic of the +imaginary cruelty of the German soldier and this association was +assiduously cultivated by word and letter. In another setting a bloody +hand may be a symbol of suffering or of sacrifice, as the red hand +impressed on church walls or sanctuaries.</p> + +<p>A white rose may be a symbol of death or innocence. A crescent +may bring up a thought of Turkey, a beautiful summer night, or +it may be conceived purely as form.</p> + +<p>Not only is the significance of designs variable, the explanations +of forms found on the same object seem often quite incoherent. +The cases are not very numerous in which we find a clearly defined, +consistent symbolism extending over the whole pattern.</p> + +<p>Judging from information given by Stephan in regard to paintings +and carvings from Melanesia,<a id="FNanchor_57_57" href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a> the explanations, varied and incoherent +as they may be, are given without hesitation and although the same +pattern elements are not given every time the same interpretation, +the whole grouping, expressed at any given time, seems to be clear +in the mind of the person who gives the explanation.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_57_57" href="#FNanchor_57_57" class="label">[57]</a> +Emil Stephan, <span lang="de">Südseekunst</span>, p. 86.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In by far the majority of cases the interpretation appears to us as entirely +incoherent. The terms by which the same forms are designated by different +individuals and at different times are so varied that it is difficult +to assume that we are merely dealing with names of design elements.</p> + +<p>As a typical example of lack of relation between the symbols +composing the ornament may be mentioned an + <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Arapho" id="Arapho4">Arapaho</ins> knife scabbard<a id="FNanchor_58_58" href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a> +(fig. <a href="#fig_100_101_102">100</a>). “The green lines forming a square at the top +represent rivers. The figure within is an eagle. The two larger +dark portions of this figure are also cattle-tracks. The two rows of +triangles on the body of the scabbard represent arrow-points. The +squares in the middle are boxes, and the lines between them are +the conventional morning-star cross. The small squares on the +pendant attached to the point of the scabbard are cattle-tracks.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_58_58" href="#FNanchor_58_58" class="label">[58]</a> +Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 18, p. 87.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[107]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_100_101_102" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_122.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable wd100"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 100. Embroidered knife sheath, Arapaho.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 101. Painted board, Neu-Mecklenburg.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 102. Decorated paddle, Neu-Mecklenburg.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>As another example I select a decorated object from New Ireland +described by Stephan. In fig. <a href="#fig_100_101_102">101</a> (<i>a</i>) represents a frigate bird, +(<i>b</i>) fish bones, (<i>c</i>) buttons for strings of shell money, +(<i>d</i>) men’s arms, and (<i>e</i>) a fish head. On a paddle +(fig. <a href="#fig_100_101_102">102</a>) the spirals represent the opercula of a snail; +the connected triangles, the wings of the frigate bird. On +other specimens the spirals represent young fern fronds.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_108">[108]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_103" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_123.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 103. Blanket of mountain-goat wool, Tlingit. Alaska. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In the art of the North Pacific coast a definite totemic meaning +is given to conventional figures. There is no general agreement as to +their significance, but to many forms is assigned a meaning according +to the totemic affiliation of the owner for whom it thus attains a +value based on its meaning. Explanations of a blanket design (fig. +<a href="#fig_103">103</a>) obtained by G. T. Emmons and John R. Swanton, may serve +as an example. According to Emmons the design represents a whale +diving, in the lateral fields are ravens sitting. The head with nostrils +and mouth is shown below. The central face represents the body, +the inverted eyes along the upper border, the tail. According to +Swanton the design represents a wolf with young. The head is +shown below. The hind legs and hip joints are represented by the +two large inverted eyes and the adjoining ornament along the upper +border. The two dark segments just above the eyes are explained +as the feet. The face in the middle of the design represents, as +usual, the body of the animal. The small eye designs, with adjoining +ear and wing feathers, in the middle on each side of the body, are +interpreted as forelegs and feet. The designs in the lateral panels +are explained as young wolves sitting.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_109">[109]</span></p> +<p>It seems likely that wherever varied interpretations of the same +form, or of closely allied forms occur within the same social unit, +conditions of this kind prevail.</p> + +<p>We have no information whatever that would enable us to decide +whether the ideas expressed are entirely incoherent. It is conceivable +that there may be associations that are unknown to us and +that create a greater unity than appears on the surface. I am under +the impression that connected with the interpretation there exists a +certain emotional tone that may be weak, but that is, nevertheless, +not negligible in the esthetic effect of the whole object.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_104" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_124.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 104. Basketry patterns of the Pomo Indians, California. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It would seem that in a considerable number of cases ornamental +patterns have definite names that are always applied, no matter +in what combination the design may occur. Many Californian +basketry patterns are of this kind. Barrett<a id="FNanchor_59_59" href="#Footnote_59_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a> gives the names of +decorative patterns used by the Pomo Indians, from which I select +a few as an illustration (fig. <a href="#fig_104">104</a>). The northern and eastern Pomo +call fig. <a href="#fig_104">104</a> <i>a</i>, <i>b</i> butterflies; the central Pomo call them arrow-heads; +the designation for <i>c</i> is sharp arrow-heads. The northern +Pomo call <i>d</i>, pointed broad band, deer back, or darts for a game; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_110">[110]</span>the central Pomo call them crow-foot or crow-track; the eastern +Pomo, zig-zag or marks of the east. The design <i>e</i> is called quail plumes; +<i>f</i> and <i>h</i>, by the northern Pomo, “sharp points and in the +middle striped water snake”; the central Pomo call them “similar +to slender arrow-heads”, and the single triangles, turtle-neck. The +eastern Pomo call the designs butterfly and “in the middle (gaya) +striped water snake”. The design <i>g</i> is called by the northern Pomo, +empty spaces and quail tip patterns; by the eastern Pomo, butterfly +and quail plumes; <i>i</i> by the central Pomo quail plumes arrowhead.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_59_59" href="#FNanchor_59_59" class="label">[59]</a> + S. A. Barrett, Pomo Indian Basketry, Univ. of California Publications in Am. +Arch. and Ethn. Vol. VII, No. 3.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_105" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_125.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 105. Drawn work, Mexico. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>This usage corresponds to our terms when we speak, for instance, +of the “egg and dart” design. Among the Shetland Islanders patterns +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_111">[111]</span>on knit stockings are called “flowers”, flowers serving as a synonym +for pattern. The drawn work of Mexico bears also names.<a id="FNanchor_60_60" href="#Footnote_60_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a> Here +we find names as for instance, “Little Jesus”, “Beehive” (<i>a</i>) (fig. <a href="#fig_105">105</a>), +“Partridge’s Eye” (<i>b</i>), “Tomato Seed and Peel” (<i>c</i>), liana (<i>d</i>), +“Spider Net” (<i>e</i>). The same is true of the embroidery of Paraguay.<a id="FNanchor_61_61" href="#Footnote_61_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_60_60" href="#FNanchor_60_60" class="label">[60]</a> Journal American Folk-Lore Vol. 33, 1920, pp. 73 et seq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_61_61" href="#FNanchor_61_61" class="label">[61]</a> E. Roquette-Pinto, On the Ñanduti of Paraguay. Proceedings of the Congress +of Americanists, Gotenburg, 1925, pp. 103 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Named designs among more primitive people are particularly +common in Africa, where, according to all investigators, the complex +designs are conceived as compounds of single elements which bear names.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_106" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_126.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 106. Designs of the Ruanda. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Czekanowski<a id="FNanchor_62_62" href="#Footnote_62_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a> says in discussing the ornaments found in Ruanda +(fig. <a href="#fig_106">106</a>): “On account +of the simplicity of the +Ruanda ornament its +elements are easily +determined. We shall +enumerate them here +according to their names: +quiver (<i>a</i>); shield +(<i>b</i>); millet (<i>c</i>); knife (<i>d</i>); +arrowhead (<i>e</i>); kindly +person (<i>f</i>); ferrule of +a spear (<i>g</i>); wings of a +swallow (<i>h</i>); large tail (<i>i</i>, <i>j</i>); arrows (<i>k</i>). The three last patterns may be +considered as compound forms. The pentagon occupies an exceptional +position. All these elements consist of straight lines. Curves occur as +segments, crescents, spirals and circles. Wide-lined circles are called +arm rings (<i>m</i>); narrow ones, bracelets (<i>n</i>).” The general ornamentation +consists of horizontal rows of black triangles or diamonds on a plain +background or a white triangle on a black background. The arrowhead +design (<i>e</i>) appears in long rows, the point of one head touching the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[112]</span>notch of the other. Zig-zag bands in diagonal or vertical rows of +the pattern <i>i</i> and <i>j</i> occur also. The characteristic point seems to +be that only the elements of the whole pattern bear names.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_62_62" href="#FNanchor_62_62" class="label">[62]</a> Jan Czekanowski, <span lang="de">Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika +Expedition</span>, 1907-1908, Vol. VI, Part 1. pp. 329 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_107" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_127.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 107. Designs of the Pangwe. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I infer from Tessmann’s<a id="FNanchor_63_63" href="#Footnote_63_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a> description that among the Pangwe of +West Africa also the single pattern elements bear names while the +multifarious combinations lack explanations such as we find in +America or in Melanesia. In fig. <a href="#fig_107">107</a> patterns in woodcarving are +represented which are +named as follows: (<i>a</i>) +file; (<i>b</i>) string of cowrie +shells; (<i>c</i>, <i>d</i>) triangular +leaf used for feathering +arrows for the cross bow +(triangle with wide base); +point of iron money, +spear point (triangle with +narrow base); (<i>e</i>) tail of +armadillo; (<i>f</i>) kerf; (<i>g</i>) +rainbow; (<i>h</i>) fish bone; +(<i>i</i>) triangular spear; (<i>k</i>) +spider net.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_63_63" href="#FNanchor_63_63" class="label">[63]</a> Günter Tessmann, <span lang="de">Die Pangwe</span>, Berlin 1913, Vol. 1, p. 243 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_108" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_128.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 108. Designs of the Bushongo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Of the Bushongo Torday<a id="FNanchor_64_64" href="#Footnote_64_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a> says that the nomenclature is not certain +(p. 216). “The Bushongo do not consider the design as a whole, but +they divide it into various elementary patterns. They take one of +these elements as characteristic of the whole figure and call the +whole design by this term. The motives obtained by interrupting woven +patterns<a id="FNanchor_65_65" href="#Footnote_65_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a> at regular intervals are built up of <span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[113]</span>small details which +are found variously combined in other motives. Therefore, owing to the +analytical mind of the natives, the curious phenomenon results that the +same name may be given to two designs, apparently quite dissimilar, +at least so far as the general impression is concerned, and that the +natives of opposite sex will give to the same design different names +because either considers a particular element as the principal part.” +The closely related patterns fig. <a href="#fig_108">108</a> <i>b</i> and <i>d</i> are derived +from interwoven strands (fig. <a href="#fig_108">108</a> <i>a</i>). The form <i>b</i> is +called imbolo (interwoven?); <i>c</i> is called the xylophone and +<i>d</i> the foot of Matarma. The Bangayo call the same pattern in +carving (<i>e</i>, <i>f</i>) back and head of the python. The patterns +108 <i>g</i>, <i>h</i> are called the knee and <i>i</i> the knot.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_64_64" href="#FNanchor_64_64" class="label">[64]</a> + E. Torday and T. A. Joyce, Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément +appelés Bakuba, etc. Les Bushongo, <span lang="fr">Documents ethnographiques concernant +les populations du Congo Belge</span>, Vol. II, number 1, Brussels, 1910, pp. 217, 219.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_65_65" href="#FNanchor_65_65" class="label">[65]</a> i. e. the element consisting of a single warp strand showing between two +woof strands and the adjoining similar elements, formed in simple up and down +weaving.</p></div> +</div> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_109" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_129.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 109. Feet of pottery dishes, Chiriqui, Costa Rica. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_110" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_130_110.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 110. Polynesian ornaments. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_111" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_130.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 111. Crocodile arrows, New Guinea. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_112" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_131.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 112. Designs representing frigate + bird and crocodile. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The significance of primitive +ornament has also been studied +in another way. In a number +of cases it has been shown that +series can be arranged in which we may place at one end a realistic +representation of an object. By degrees we may pass to more and +more conventional forms that show each a distinct similarity to +the preceding one, but end in a purely conventional, geometric +design in which the initial stage can hardly, if at all, be recognized. +I believe the first to discover this phenomenon was Frederic +Ward Putnam, who described the development, as he called it, of +the hollow, slit feet of Chiriquian (Costa Rican) pottery from a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[114]</span>fish form to a purely conventional design (fig. <a href="#fig_109">109</a>). He was followed +by others who made studies of similar transitions in other +parts of the world. William H. Holmes described the so-called +alligator vases of Chiriqui, showing the relations between the alligator +design and curious irregular painted forms (see fig. <a href="#fig_129">129</a>, p. 137). +Hjalmar Stolpe, and about the same time, Charles H. Read +(fig. <a href="#fig_110">110</a>) discussed the relations of human figures and geometrical +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[115]</span>designs in Polynesian ornaments; Haddon studied the so-called +crocodile arrows (fig. <a href="#fig_111">111</a>) and the frigate bird (fig. <a href="#fig_112">112</a>) designs of +New Guinea in their gradual transition from fairly realistic forms in +which the crocodile and the bird are easily recognized, to geometrical +types in which the prototype is entirely obscured. Similar relations are +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_116">[116]</span>found in the facial urns of prehistoric times, (fig. <a href="#fig_113">113</a>) in some of +which we find a perfectly plain and distinct face, while in others +there are only a few knobs that, on account of their position, recall +the face. George Grant MacCurdy +takes us back to Chiriqui where +he collected from museum collections +series of types beginning with +the form of the armadillo and +ending with small decorative points +(fig. <a href="#fig_114">114</a>). Von den Steinen forms +out similar phenomena in the +tattooings of the Marquesans.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_113" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_132_113.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 113. Facial urns. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a few cases the striking +similarity of the patterns which +contradicts the diversity of names +suggests an historical relation between +the forms. This is the case, +for instance, with the Bushongo +antelope and beetle patterns (fig. +<a href="#fig_115">115</a>). The resemblance between +the realistic antelope head (<i>a</i>) and +beetle design (<i>d</i>) is evident. It is, +however, not necessary to assume +a transition from the antelope to +the beetle design, but the question +has to be answered in how far the +stylistic form may have moulded +the two representations in the same +form or, on the other hand, why an +ornamental form may have outlines that, on the one hand, express +an antelope’s head and, on the other hand, the body of a beetle.<a id="FNanchor_66_66" href="#Footnote_66_66" class="fnanchor">[66]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_66_66" href="#FNanchor_66_66" class="label">[66]</a> +E. Torday and T. A. Joyce, <span lang="fr">Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément +appelés Bakuba, etc. Les Bushongo, Documents ethnographiques concernant +les populations du Congo Belge</span>, Vol. II, number 1, Brussels, 1910, p. 212.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_117">[117]</span></p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_114" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_132_114.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 114. Armadillo designs, Chiriqui. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_115" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_132_115.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 115. Designs of the Bushongo representing + the head of the antelope and the beetle. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_118">[118]</span></p> +<p>Here arises the important problem whether we are to assume +that all these forms are developments from realism to conventionalism, +as has often been assumed, or whether the converse process +may not also have occurred, namely that a geometrical design +existed and that a gradual development towards a realistic form +took place, that a meaning was read into the geometric pattern and +that in this way the significant forms originated. Unfortunately +historical evidence is hardly ever available and we are compelled +to rely upon indirect evidence. We cannot follow the excellent +example set by Riegl in his detailed study of the history of the +introduction of curved lines in Mediterranean art.</p> + +<p>However, we can apply the geographical method, the only one +that has made it possible to unravel part of the historical development +of people that do not possess written records, and for cultures +the development of which cannot be traced by archaeological +evidence. It is possible to establish with a high degree of probability +the relationship of cultural forms and their gradual spread by +means of a study of the distribution of ethnic phenomena and their +variations in the sections of the area in which they are found. This +method is strictly analogous to the one applied by biologists in their +studies of the gradual distribution of plants and animals.</p> + +<p>In our case we must try to trace the distribution of designs together +with the interpretations given to them by different tribes. +If we should find consistent interpretations of the same form over +large areas, perhaps even more realistic forms in a central district, +more conventional ones in outlying parts of the country, but in all +of them the same interpretation, we should have to consider this as +plausible evidence of an origin of the conventional types from a +realistic representation. If, on the other hand, it should be found +that in the whole area realistic forms and conventional forms were +irregularly distributed and that furthermore the meanings of identical +or similar forms did not agree, then the origin of conventional +forms from realistic ones would seem to be quite unlikely. Then we +should have to assume one of two possibilities; either the form must have +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[119]</span>spread gradually over the whole area and must have been given a +meaning independently by each people,—in other words the +meaning must have been read into the pattern,—or it may have +been that a dominating style has forced a diversity of realistic representations +into the same geometric patterns.</p> + +<p>In the latter case we should have to consider the processes by +which realistic forms should gradually change into unrecognizable +conventional ones; in the former the processes by which from a +conventional form a representative one +develops.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_116" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_134.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 116. Design representing + the buffalo, Arapaho. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>That both ways are possible is easily +shown. When the Plains Indians represent +a buffalo in a stiff angular form, like a hide +spread out provided with legs, head and +tail (fig. <a href="#fig_116">116</a>); and if also a rectangle without +these attachments is called a buffalo, it +may be as well the buffalo hide that has +been abbreviated, so to speak, as that the +hide has been read into the rectangle. The +process of reading in is not at all unfamiliar +to us. We see realistic forms in the shapes of mountains and clouds +and in marks on rocks, and we enjoy the play of fancy that endows +natural forms with new meanings. There is no reason to doubt that +the same tendency prevails among primitive peoples. Koch-Grünberg’s<a id="FNanchor_67_67" href="#Footnote_67_67" class="fnanchor">[67]</a> +observations among the natives of South America prove this point. +He tells us that the Indians, when camping at a portage and waiting +for the rivers to become navigable, take up accidental marks on the +rocks and by pecking develop them into forms suggested by the +natural outlines, or that they take up the lines left by a preceding +party who amused themselves in the same way and whose play was +interrupted when they were able to resume their journey. We have +also ample evidence to show that curiously formed rocks are not +only compared with animate beings, but that they are actually +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_120">[120]</span>considered as men or beasts transformed into stone. Thus the +Pueblo Indians tell in their migration legend that a person or an +animal became tired on account of the fatigue of the long travel, +sat down and was transformed into stone. The forms of a hawk, +man, bear, and of a woman carrying +a basket are still pointed +out. On Vancouver Island are +shown the tracks of the culture +hero, where he stepped on a +rock. In the interior of British +Columbia a large boulder is +said to be Coyote’s basket.<a id="FNanchor_68_68" href="#Footnote_68_68" class="fnanchor">[68]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_67_67" href="#FNanchor_67_67" class="label">[67]</a> +Th. Koch-Grünberg, <span lang="de">Südamerikanische Felszeichnungen</span>. Berlin, 1907.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_68_68" href="#FNanchor_68_68" class="label">[68]</a> James A. Teit, The Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Publications of +the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. I, Pl. 19.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_117" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_135.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 117. Designs of North American Indians; + the first nine Arapaho, the next six Eastern + Algonquin; the last line; first Hopi; then + archaeological specimens, Pueblo region. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I shall illustrate this point +by the discussion of a design +found widely spread among the +Indians of North America. +Their decorative art is characterized +by the use of straight +lines, triangles and rectangles +that appear in manifold combinations. +One of the most +typical forms is that of an +isosceles triangle with enclosed +rectangle, sometimes provided +with spurs at the base (fig. <a href="#fig_117">117</a>). +This design is found in an +extended area. It occurs most +frequently on the great plains +but also on part of the western +plateaus and among the Pueblo Indians (fig. <a href="#fig_118">118</a>). To the west it is +found among the tribes of the woodlands and certain peculiar patterns +of New England and the interior of Labrador are strongly reminiscent +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_121">[121]</span>of it. The stylistic similarity, or better, identity of the pattern on +the plains is so great that it cannot possibly have developed from +several independent sources. It is part and parcel of the general art +style of the area that has developed either in one spot, or what +seems more probable, by the conflux of artistic activities of a number +of tribes. Thirty or forty years ago, under the strong influence +of the evolutionary theory, the psychologising ethnologist might +have interpreted this similarity as due to the sameness of the reaction +of the human mind to the +same or similar environmental +causes,—as Daniel G. Brinton +explained the similarity of Algonquin +and Iroquois mythologies. +However, the development of our +science since that time has so +firmly established the fact that +even the most primitive cultures +must be considered as having had +a historical development no less +complex than that of civilization, +that the theory of independent +origin of almost identical phenomena in contiguous areas can no +longer be maintained and has been given up by all serious students.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_118" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_136.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 118. Triangular design, prehistoric + Pueblo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>When we study the significance of the pattern we find the +greatest possible divergence of meaning. As pointed out before, +different individuals in one tribe, do not all assign to it the same +meaning, but more or less decided tendencies to certain interpretations +are found in each tribe. The design is sometimes drawn +steeply and the sides of the triangle extend slightly beyond the +apex. Thus the form of a tent with tent poles, doorway and pegs +for pinning down the tent cover is expressed. At other times the +triangle is more obtuse and represents a hill. It may be placed on +a white background which signifies snow or sand; blue lines extending +downward from the base indicate springs of water and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_122">[122]</span>small triangles may be placed in the inner triangle. Thus it becomes +the mythical mountain in which, at the beginning of time, +the buffaloes were kept and which is located on a snowcovered +plain. On the slopes of the mountain grow trees. Again, quite +different, is the interpretation given by the Pueblo Indians. In +their arid country the greatest need is rain without which their +crops wither and starvation stares at the people. The communal +life centers around the idea of fertility to be attained by an abundance +of rain. Accordingly they interpret the symbol as a cloud +from which the rain falls. Since their art is far less angular in +style than that of the Plains Indians, they often substitute a semicircle +for the triangle and attain a greater realistic resemblance to clouds +by superimposing three of these semicircles, from which flow down +the rain lines. When we turn to the western plateaus, we find +among the Shoshone the regular design of the obtuse triangle applied +and explained on the basis of geographical features; it suggests to +them mountain-passes and a fort protected by palisades. Further to the +north we do not find the enclosed rectangle, but the triangle and +the spurs at the base persist. These are explained as paws of a +bear, the triangle being the sole of the foot, the spurs the claws. +In the eastern woodlands new developments occur. The triangle +now is exceedingly narrow, so that there is no room for the enclosed +rectangle which is reduced to a triangle. The sides of the +triangle are produced beyond the apex, even more so than among +the Sioux Indians, and a considerable number of almost straight +vertical lines are added to the sides. The form bears now a certain +resemblance to a fish tail and is so interpreted. Still more +curious are the developments in New England. The triangle and +the enclosed rectangle are still unmistakably present, although curved +lines, characteristic of eastern American art, are added on. The interpretation +has changed again. The pattern is a symbol of the +town or of the tribe and its chief.</p> + +<p>Among none of these tribes do we find any indication of the +existence of more realistic forms from which the conventional triangle +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_123">[123]</span>might have been derived. The realistic forms of the western +tribes are almost exclusively crudely pictographic and no transition +from the pictograph to ornamental, geometric patterns can be traced. +The realistic forms of the eastern tribes are found particularly in +mattings and weaving. These also show no relation to the triangular +forms that we are discussing. The theory that the pattern has +developed under the stress of a compelling style that cast a variety +of realistic forms into the same mould does not find support in the +facts, because transitional forms are lacking. We conclude, therefore, +that the sameness of form and the difference of meaning are not +due to a geometrisation of realistic forms but to a reading in of +significance into old conventional patterns. This view is corroborated +by the prevailing uncertainty in regard to many of the meanings. +The Blackfeet, according to Clark Wissler,<a id="FNanchor_69_69" href="#Footnote_69_69" class="fnanchor">[69]</a> have practically no feeling +whatever for the significance of these designs. The Arapaho +behave somewhat differently on different occasions. Ceremonial +paraphernalia may have fairly definite meaning, while clothing, bags +and other objects are given interpretations that are quite subjective +and which show therefore great individual differences.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_69_69" href="#FNanchor_69_69" class="label">[69]</a> + Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 18, p. 276.</p></div> +</div> +</div> +<p>The importance of the social position, or perhaps better, of the +social interests of the owner of an object, in determining the meaning +of ornaments has been demonstrated most clearly among the +Sioux Indians. In former times their ornamentation was made in +porcupine quill embroidery, but at present beads have taken place +of the quills. Men and women use to a considerable extent the +same ornamental designs, but with distinctive meaning. A diamond-shaped +pattern with attached double triangular appendages, when +found on a cradle, or a woman’s legging, is interpreted as a turtle, +the turtle being a symbol closely associated with birth and maturity +of the woman. When found on a man’s legging it represents a +slain enemy.<a id="FNanchor_70_70" href="#Footnote_70_70" class="fnanchor">[70]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_70_70" href="#FNanchor_70_70" class="label">[70]</a> +Clark Wissler, Decorative Art of the Sioux Indians, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. +Hist., Vol. 18, pp. 253, 273.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_124">[124]</span></p> +<p>I will mention one more case in which the actual process of +reading in has been observed. At one time, when I visited British +Columbia, I purchased a woven bag from an elderly woman. It +was decorated with a series of diamonds and small embroidered +cross-like figures. Upon inquiry I learned that the bag had +been purchased from a neighboring tribe and that the new owner +did not know anything about the original significance of the pattern,—if +such a significance existed which is doubtful, because the tribe in +question is not given to interpretations. It appeared to the new +owner that the diamonds looked like a series of lakes connected by +a river. The different colors of the diamonds appeared to her to +suggest the colors of the lakes;—a green border, the vegetation +of the shore, a yellow area inside the shallow water, and a blue +center the deep water. The interpretation did not seem to her +sufficiently clear, and in order to emphasize it she added, in +embroidery, figures of birds flying towards the lakes. Thus she gave +greater realism to her conception and made it more intelligible to +her friends (Plate <a href="#plate_VII">VII</a>).</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_VII" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_140.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate VII.</span></p> + + + Woven Pouch, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The needle cases of the Alaskan Eskimo offer an excellent example +of an elaboration of geometrical into realistic forms. It must be +remembered that all the Eskimo tribes, east and west, are very fond +of carving and that they produce many small animal figures that +serve no practical purpose but which are made for the pleasure of +artistic creation, and that many of their small implements are given +animal forms. The mind of the worker in ivory is imbued with the +idea of animal representation. The Alaskan needle cases have a +stereotyped form to which the bulk of the specimens conform (fig. <a href="#fig_119">119</a>). +The type consists of a tube slightly bulging in the middle, with flanges +at the upper end, with lateral knobs under the flanges on opposite +sides. On the body of the tubing, between the flanges, is a long +narrow concave face, set off from the flanges and the body of the +tube by parallel lines with small forks at the lower ends. Lines +border the sides and ends of the flanges and the upper end of the +concave face, and an alternate-spur band is found at the lower end +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_125">[125]</span>of the tube. This type is presumably related to the ancient type of +needle case from Hudson Bay, which is characterized by a tubular +form, flanges at the upper end and a pair of large wings in the +middle part of the tube. These, I believe are the prototypes of the +small knobs at the sides of the Alaskan type. These are sometimes +so small that they can hardly be seen, although they may be felt +when the fingers glide lightly over the surface of the tube. However +this may be, the majority of Alaskan specimens are of the type +here described. The +variations in geometrical +form are very slight.<a id="FNanchor_71_71" href="#Footnote_71_71" class="fnanchor">[71]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_71_71" href="#FNanchor_71_71" class="label">[71]</a> +See Franz Boas, Decorative Designs on Alaskan Needlecases, Proceedings of +the United States National Museum, Volume XXXIV, (1908), pages 321-344, +Washington, D. C.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_119" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_142.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 119. Alaskan needle cases. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a number of cases +part of the needle case +or the whole object is +elaborated in representative +forms. In a few +specimens the knobs +have been given the +form of seal heads. A +slight enlargement and +the addition of eyes and +mouth are sufficient to bring about this effect (fig. <a href="#fig_119">119</a> <i>c</i>). In other cases +the flanges have been developed into walrus heads (fig. <a href="#fig_119">119</a> <i>d</i>) or into +other animal forms that fit the form of the flange (fig. <a href="#fig_119">119</a> <i>e</i>). By adding +a point for the eye and by cutting out the inner part of the flange +the outer form is essentially preserved and the form of the bulky +walrus head with its large tusks is successfully attained; or the walrus +motive may be repeated so that the original form of the needle case +is considerably obscured. By adding a seal’s head at the lower end +the lower part of the object receives more or less the form of a seal.</p> + +<p>It is important to note that in all specimens of this type the double +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_126">[126]</span>spur ornament persists, although it interferes with the seal’s head +that is often added at the lower end. It seems very unlikely that +the many animal forms attached to the needlecases were the primary +forms from which the geometrical form developed. On the contrary, +the wide distribution and the great frequency of the geometrical +forms, their agreement with Eskimo +geometrical style and the occurrence +of this geometric style on +specimens that do not imitate +animal forms are entirely in favor +of the assumption that the earlier +form is geometrical, whatever the +origin of the flanges and knobs +may have been. Presumably the +habit of carving animal forms has +induced the artist to produce the +variants described here.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_120" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_143.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 120. Reels of Alaskan Eskimo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Equally interesting are the reels +used by the Alaskan Eskimo. +Their prototype is a piece of +caribou antler cut as shown in +fig. <a href="#fig_120">120</a>. This, however has been +developed into animal forms. +One specimen has a geometrical decoration on the body, while +three of the ends are elaborated as animal heads. In another one +the two prongs on one side are given the form of seal heads +which are connected by a long line with the flippers which are +shown on the opposite side. Still another specimen has been +treated like a much distorted form of a wolf. The head is at the +prong of one end, the forelegs at the other prong of the same end; +the two hind legs are carved on the two prongs at the opposite end.</p> + +<p>Similar observations may be made on arrow shaft straighteners +and snow knives of the Alaskan Eskimo.<a id="FNanchor_72_72" href="#Footnote_72_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_72_72" href="#FNanchor_72_72" class="label">[72]</a> +E. W. Nelson, The Eskimo about Bering Strait, Annual Report Bureau of +American Ethnology, Volume XVIII, pl. 40, 48, 94.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_127">[127]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_121" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_144.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 121. Eye shades and vessel, Ammassalik. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The examples which I have given demonstrate beyond cavil that the +process of reading in exists and accounts for the significance of many +geometrical forms; that it is not necessary to assume in each and +every case that geometrical ornament is derived from realistic representations. +Hjalmar Stolpe to whose researches on primitive art we +owe so much had an exaggerated opinion of the importance of realistic +designs, for he believed that every geometric form must have +been derived from a representation. Stephan expresses the same +opinion. I may perhaps illustrate Stolpe’s point of view by one +example. Among the Eskimo of East Greenland is found an eye-shade +decoration consisting of notched pieces of ivory placed side +by side. Stolpe explained this form as a derivation from carvings +representing seals, abbreviated due to the rhythmic repetition of the +seal design (fig. <a href="#fig_121">121</a>). However, we know that the Eskimo when +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_128">[128]</span>making small blocks of ivory, such as are used for the manufacture +of toggles or other similar objects, cut the walrus tusk just in this +manner, so that through a technical process they have become familiar +with the ornamental form. Therefore it is not indispensable to +assume a realistic origin for the design.</p> + +<p>It is interesting to compare the process with which we are dealing +with other ethnic phenomena of similar import. The essential conclusion +drawn from our observations is that the same form may be +given different meanings, that the form is constant, the interpretation +variable, not only tribally but also individually. It can be shown +that this tendency is not by any means confined to art, but that it +is present also in mythology and in ceremonialism, that in these +also the outer form remains, while the accompanying interpretations +are widely different. In the case of mythology we may observe that +in the same way as patterns have a wide distribution, so also motives +of myths, or even whole plots are found over extended areas. For +example, the well known tale of the magic flight, which is one of +the most widely distributed fairy tales, occurs in a number of North +American localities. Among the Eskimo it is given as accounting +for the origin of fog; in British Columbia it is made to account for +the origin of certain cannibalistic ceremonials. Another example is +the so-called star husband story, a tale of two girls who were taken +up to the sky by the stars. The story is widely spread and is told +as the explanation of a great variety of phenomena. The child of +one of the women becomes the culture hero and destroys the monsters +infesting the world. Customs, ceremonials, and prerogatives of +clans are explained by this tale, in accordance with the chief interests +of the tribes concerned. The nature myths collected from all parts +of the world by Dähnhardt<a id="FNanchor_73_73" href="#Footnote_73_73" class="fnanchor">[73]</a> are full of examples of this kind: the +most diverse features are explained by the same tales. This shows +that it is quite untenable to assume that the tales developed through +the immediate effect of viewing natural phenomena, that much rather +the tales preexisted and the explanatory part was tacked on at a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_129">[129]</span>later time, precisely as the art forms preexisted and their meaning +was tacked on according to the peculiar mental disposition of the +individual or the tribe.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_73_73" href="#FNanchor_73_73" class="label">[73]</a> + Oskar Dähnhardt, <span lang="de">Natursagen</span>, Vol. 4. Leipzig 1912.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The same observation has been made in regard to ceremonials. +The so-called sun dance is performed by almost all the tribes of +the great plains. The general run of the ceremonial is essentially +the same everywhere, although different tribes have added on special +characteristic details. The meaning, on the other hand, presents far +greater variations. In one case the performance is made in fulfilment +of a vow made when supernatural aid is invoked in time of distress; +in another case it is undertaken to purchase the right of ownership +in a sacred bundle, and then again it is a tribal, seasonal ceremonial.<a id="FNanchor_74_74" href="#Footnote_74_74" class="fnanchor">[74]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_74_74" href="#FNanchor_74_74" class="label">[74]</a> + Leslie Spier, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural +History, Vol. XVI, (1921), pp. 457 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>These three examples illustrate that the psychological explanation of +a custom and its historical development are not by any means the +same; on the contrary, owing to secondary interpretations that in +course of time set in and the general character of which depends upon +the cultural interest of the people, the psychological explanation is +much more likely to be quite independent of the actual historical +happenings. The mere fact that a tribe explains forms according to +a certain pattern does not prove, that they have developed from +actual representations of the objects they now represent.</p> + +<p>It might perhaps be admitted that in the special case of the North +American triangle which we have discussed the argument is convincing +because no transitional forms exist, that, however, when an +almost continuous series of forms is found, beginning with the most +realistic and ending with a purely geometrical one, the conclusion +cannot be avoided that the development has been in the direction +from realism to conventionalism. I have already indicated that as +long as there is no historic proof, the sequence might as well be +reversed. In all the cases that have been described and that are +based on direct inquiry among primitive people regarding the meaning +of designs, realistic and conventional forms have been found to occur +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_130">[130]</span>at the same time. It would therefore be necessary to give a reason +why some excellent artists should use the one style, others, equally +good ones the other; or why even the same artist should combine +the two styles.</p> + +<p>It is generally claimed that slovenly execution brings about deterioration +of pattern and through this, causes misunderstandings. I +do not consider this explanation as tenable under the conditions of +life prevailing among primitive people, because there is no slovenly +execution among natives who make utensils for their own use. The +pottery and paintings of the South American Indians, observed by +Von den Steinen, the crocodile arrows of New Guinea, the frigate +bird carvings, are all carefully made. We find often that people +will use inferior wares for exchange with neighboring tribes, while +they keep the good material for themselves. The natives of Vancouver +Island for instance, adulterate with elderberries berry cakes that are +made for trade, while those made for home consumption are made +of the more valuable berries, such as blueberries or salmonberries +without the addition of other material of inferior value. This tendency, +particularly when combined with the desire to manufacture +quickly large masses of material, leads to poor work. The question +then arises, what happens in cases of this kind. Does slovenly work +lead to misunderstandings and to conventionalism? Balfour has +tried to make the process clear. He let an individual copy a design +and used the first reproduction as original for a second copy. By +continuing in this way he received the most astonishing transformations. +Such results may occur when work executed in a highly +developed technique is imitated by people of lesser accomplishments. +The standard example is that of the degeneration of Greek coins +when copied by Keltic imitators<a id="FNanchor_75_75" href="#Footnote_75_75" class="fnanchor">[75]</a> which led to a complete disruption +of the original design. However, this example is not to the point, +because we are ordinarily not dealing with copies of designs borrowed +from people of higher technical development, but with those belonging +to a single tribe.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_75_75" href="#FNanchor_75_75" class="label">[75]</a> + See Max Ebert, <span lang="de">Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte</span>, Vol. 6, pp. 301 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_131">[131]</span></p> +<p>I have had occasion to observe the effect of factory production +and of slovenly execution in some Mexican material. In western +Mexico dishes are made of tree calabashes which are covered with +an orange laquer. By the lost-color process these are overlaid with +designs in green laquer. The industry is probably of Spanish origin. +Old specimens made of wood are of excellent workmanship. These +are decorated mostly with animal forms, deer, fish, and so on. At +present the work is of much poorer execution and the ware is sold +in market places, as in Oaxaca (fig. <a href="#fig_122">122</a>). On some specimens the +fish designs of ancient type are still used, but we find also, even +more frequently, leaf patterns and we may here apparently observe +just that kind of misunderstanding described by Balfour. The gill +region becomes the base of the leaf. The head of the fish corresponds +to the base of the leaf; the fins to the marginal indentations, +and the ribs of the fish to the veins of the leaf. Since both the +fish and the leaf occur in modern types it may be doubted whether +we are dealing with an actual transformation, with a real misunderstanding. +It might be as well that the psychological process involved +has been rather the substitution of new subject matter for the old, +in which process the new subject was rigidly controlled by the old, +stereotyped form. We shall see that conditions of this kind are +often very potent.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_122" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_148.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 122. Designs from vessels made of tree calabashes, + <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Oxaca" id="Oxaca">Oaxaca</ins>. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_132">[132]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_123_124" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_149.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 123. Fragments of pottery vessels, Texcoco.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 124. Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Another good example is the pottery made for sale by the ancient +inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico. Pottery was made here in great +masses and, as described by Sahagun,<a id="FNanchor_76_76" href="#Footnote_76_76" class="fnanchor">[76]</a> sold in the market places. +The vessels show plainly the effect of factory production and of the +resultant slurring. The Aztec pottery is fundamentally of uniform +type. In Culhuacan, a small village at the foot of the Sierra de la +Estrella, a coarse kind of this ware was made. Great masses +of potsherds are found in the swampy soil which was used in +early times as garden beds. The pottery is thick, dark orange, +painted black. It is a pronounced local form, darker than the light +ware of Texcoco (fig. <a href="#fig_123_124">123</a>); the painted lines are broad and coarse, +while those of Texcoco are very delicate. The patterns are fixed, +but the rapidity of manufacture has developed a definite style, analogous +to the styles of handwriting. Each painter had his own method +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_133">[133]</span>of handling the brush, with the result that his individuality may +easily be recognized.<a id="FNanchor_77_77" href="#Footnote_77_77" class="fnanchor">[77]</a> I select a few examples here in order to show +the effect of slurring upon design. It is essential to note that on +the same specimen the lines are always drawn in the same way; +that is, that the hand of the painter followed very definite motor habits.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_76_76" href="#FNanchor_76_76" class="label">[76]</a> Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. +C. M. de Bustamente, México, 1830, Vol. 3, p. 56.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_77_77" href="#FNanchor_77_77" class="label">[77]</a> See, Franz Boas y Manuel Gamio, Album de +colecciones arqueológicas, México 1912.</p></div> +</div> +<p>One of the simplest designs is instructive in regard to the effect +of slurring and the development of individual style. +One of the decorative elements consists of a series +of S shaped, interlocking figures (fig. <a href="#fig_123_124">124</a>). It will +be noticed that, in fig. <a href="#fig_123_124">124</a> <i>b</i> the lines which seem +to have developed from the S shaped forms, are +degenerating into simple curves, while in <i>c</i> the lines +are drawn more carefully. Fig. <a href="#fig_123_124">124</a> <i>d</i> represents the +decoration from the outer side of a vessel and here +the S shaped curves have been carefully connected +and are developing into a new pattern.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_125" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_150.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 125. Designs + from pottery vessels, + Culhuacan. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Another simple pattern which illustrates the effect +of rapid production consists of a regular repetition +of a curve and two vertical strokes. It seems likely +that the form is derived from a circle followed by +vertical strokes such as are also found in the finely +painted pottery of Texcoco (Fig. <a href="#fig_125">125</a> <i>a</i>). The corresponding +Culhuacan specimens are shown in +fig. <a href="#fig_125">125</a> <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>. While in a few cases the curve is +a more or less carefully drawn circle (<i>b</i>, <i>c</i>), it has +generally the shape of a spiral. One of the most striking characteristics +of the development of this pattern is the tendency to change +the direction of the vertical strokes to an inclined position (fig. <a href="#fig_126">126</a>). +According to the tendency of the painter the strokes incline either +strongly from right above to left below (<i>a</i>, <i>b</i> inside, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i> outside), +while in <i>e</i> and <i>f</i> the strokes run from the left to the right. In +the rapid creation of these forms the vertical lines are transformed +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_134">[134]</span>into hooks. They are so characteristic that it seems perfectly feasible +to recognize the same hand in these specimens.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp70" id="fig_126" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_152_126.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 126. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There is still another way the design is treated. In fig. <a href="#fig_127">127</a> <i>a</i> +the spiral lies in the direction opposite to the one usually given to +it and a single dividing vertical line is placed between the two +spirals; the end of the first spiral taking the place of the second +vertical line. Here again the method of treatment is consistent. In a +few cases the spiral line instead of terminating abruptly is continued +under the vertical strokes (<i>b</i>). In still another case, a separate single +or double horizontal line is placed under the spiral (<i>c</i>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="fig_127" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_152_127.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 127. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_128" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_152_128.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 128. Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A frequent design of which many specimens have been collected +consists of a spiral with attached curves. Presumably it is derived +from a circle and straight lines (fig. <a href="#fig_128">128</a> <i>a</i>). In rapid execution, the +center of the circle is connected with the circumference so that the +whole line is transformed into a spiral. Sometimes the spirals develop +into a simple hook (<i>b</i>), and the lowest point of the circumference +of the circle is continued into the adjoining horizontal line. In by +far the majority of specimens the distinction between the circle and +the adjoining line may be recognized by a sudden turn, or at least +an indention in the lowest horizontal line (<i>c</i>). The form developing +from the original pattern depends entirely upon the peculiar turn +of the brush used by the artist. In many cases (<i>b</i>, <i>c</i>) the spiral, +continuing into the lowest horizontal line and turning back into the +central horizontal line, is made in one stroke and the upper horizontal +line is added on by a separate movement, adjoining the middle +and forming a hook. In other cases (<i>d</i>, <i>e</i>), the spiral and lowest +horizontal are drawn in the same way. The horizontal lines, however, +are made separately by drawing a right angle, probably from the top +downward and adding a central line. In these cases, the horizontal +ends at the far side in a sharp angle. In fig. <a href="#fig_128">128</a> <i>f</i>, the two horizontal +lines are separated from the curve; in <i>g</i>, they are made very +long and apparently the middle one is made in one stroke with the +spiral. The method of producing <i>h</i> is the same as that applied in +<i>b</i> and <i>c</i> but the upper horizontal line is very much reduced in size. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_135">[135]</span>The same method is applied in <i>i</i> with the difference that the lower +horizontal is turned up and ends rather abruptly, and that the upper +and middle horizontals are made in the form of a single horseshoe +curve. In <i>j</i> and <i>k</i> quite a different method is applied, the spiral +remains as before but the horizontal lines are made separately in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_136">[136]</span>the form of a 3. In <i>l</i> and <i>m</i> the whole curve is made in one continuous +line which has led to the doubling of the middle horizontal +in the form of a loop. In <i>n</i> the three horizontals are treated quite +differently; the long S shaped figure starting above on the left being +substituted for the lines attached to the lowest horizontal. A similar +principle, but beginning on the opposite side, is applied in <i>o</i>, in which +specimen the three horizontals have taken the form of a spiral +ending below in an almost vertical spur. In <i>p</i> we recognize a form +in which the S shaped curve is made separately; in the middle an +additional horizontal line is added and furthermore, the lowest part +of the S shaped curve is connected with the lower horizontal. The +form <i>q</i> is reversed and by attaching the S shaped curve to the center +of the spiral, a divergent form is developed.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_129" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_154.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 129. Alligator designs from Chiriqui pottery. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I believe that many of the highly irregular forms that occur in +painted pottery must be explained in the same way. Another instance +of this kind is represented by the so-called alligator ware of the +Chiriqui (fig. <a href="#fig_129">129</a>) on which W. H. Holmes based his arguments of +gradual degeneration of realistic forms into conventional forms. +Although the pot itself is well made, the painting is almost always +slovenly; evidently the result of mass production. The most characteristic +trait of decoration of this ware is line and dot work. All +the designs are characterized by the use of black and red lines interspersed +with dots. The geometrical designs, as well as the animal +forms are crudely executed. Professor Holmes has called attention +to the fact that the dots are used to indicate the scales of the alligators, +but this fact does not prove that all the dots are derived from +alligator scales. Forms like those shown in fig. <a href="#fig_129">129</a> to the right above +may well be understood as attempts in general decoration in black +and red lines and dots, badly executed. This seems more probable +since the dotted triangle has a much wider distribution than the +alligator motives. A representation of the alligator might then be +explained as executed in accordance with the technique applied to +geometrical motives. Owing to slovenly execution the animal form +may degenerate according to the motor habits of the individual artist. +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137"></a><a id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span>However, this would not prove that the alligator, as such, is older +than the line and dot decoration. It must be borne in mind also, +that the upturned snout of the alligator, of which much is made as +a means of identification, is a character of much wider distribution +than the alligator motive itself. Representations of monkeys have it +and we find it also in representations from the interior of Costa +Rica and from some parts of South America. All this is also true +of the curious nuchal appendage which occurs in Costa Rica as well +as in South America.</p> + +<p>Equally instructive is the application of small nodes and fillets +to pottery which has been explained by Dr. G. G. MacCurdy as +resulting from degeneration of armadillo figures.<a id="FNanchor_78_78" href="#Footnote_78_78" class="fnanchor">[78]</a> The essential +characteristic of all this ware is the use of small nodes and fillets applied +to the surface of the vessel or to some of its parts, like feet, neck, +shoulder or handle. These attachments are decorated by a series of +short parallel impressions. An oval node with single medial line or +lines is often used to indicate an eye; a similar nodule with several +parallel lines indicates the foot; a series of parallel, short fillets with +short parallel crosslines, are applied to forms that represent animals, +but they are also found on the bodies of vases. Dr. C. V. Hartman<a id="FNanchor_79_79" href="#Footnote_79_79" class="fnanchor">[79]</a> and +S. K. Lothrop<a id="FNanchor_80_80" href="#Footnote_80_80" class="fnanchor">[80]</a> describe the same technical motives from other parts +of Costa Rica. In technical character these are so much like the +Chiriqui specimens that we can hardly doubt that they are derived +from the same device. This method of decoration is widely spread. +Its use extends over Central America and the West Indies. It is +most characteristic of archaic ware, particularly figurines of this early +period are always modelled by means of attaching nodules and fillets. +During this period the eye is regularly represented by a nodule +with one or several incisions. This technique is also found in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_139">[139]</span>Ecuador<a id="FNanchor_81_81" href="#Footnote_81_81" class="fnanchor">[81]</a> up to more recent times. In the Toltec period the +adornment of vessels by attached nodule decoration reached its +highest development. In North America it is not common. +Incised fillets occur in remains from the middle Mississippi region +but even here they are not one of the pronounced features. +In contrast with its frequency in the highly developed pottery +of early Central America its rarity may be noted in Africa, where +highly developed forms are by no means absent, and where lids with +animal figures might seem to suggest readily the application of the +device.<a id="FNanchor_82_82" href="#Footnote_82_82" class="fnanchor">[82]</a> This is true also of the prehistoric pottery of Europe. The +nodule appears in the pottery of Michelsberg, in Jaispitz (Moravia) +and in a few other late localities. Only in the slip (barbotine) decorations +of the terra sigillata do we find anything resembling the +American appliqué ornamentation, but since the material is applied +in a semifluid state, it does not attain the same freedom of treatment. +Nodes that do occur in European prehistoric pottery were apparently +made rather in imitation of punched bronze decorations and belong +to a late period. Attached animal figures, made in clay, like those +found at Gemeinlebarn, also seem to be imitations of metal work +and have never reached that development which is so characteristic +of Central American ceramic art.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_78_78" href="#FNanchor_78_78" class="label">[78]</a> George Grant MacCurdy, A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities, Memoirs Connecticut +Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3 (1911), pp. 48 et seq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_79_79" href="#FNanchor_79_79" class="label">[79]</a> C. V. Hartman, Archaeological Researchers in Costa Rica, Stockholm, 1901.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_80_80" href="#FNanchor_80_80" class="label">[80]</a> Samuel Kirkland Lothrop. Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, New York, +Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1926.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_81_81" href="#FNanchor_81_81" class="label">[81]</a> Marshall H. Saville, The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador, New York, 1910.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_82_82" href="#FNanchor_82_82" class="label">[82]</a> See a relief ornament on a red ware vessel from Banana, Belgian Congo, +<span lang="fr">Annales du Musée du Congo</span>; Notes analytiques sur les collections ethnographiques, +Vol. 2, Brussels, 1907, <span lang="fr">Les industries indigènes</span>, Pl. III, fig. 34.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The characteristic slit rattle feet of Chiriqui pottery prove even +more conclusively than the application of fillets and nodes, that the +art forms of this province must be considered as a special development +of forms characteristic of a much wider area. This type of foot is +widely spread beyond the territory in which the fish forms prevailed.<a id="FNanchor_83_83" href="#Footnote_83_83" class="fnanchor">[83]</a></p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_83_83" href="#FNanchor_83_83" class="label">[83]</a> See Franz Boas y Manuel Gamio, <span lang="es">Album de colecciones arqueológicas</span>, México, +1912, Plates 36, 42, 51.</p></div> +</div> +<p>We are thus led to the conclusion that the use of the nodes and +fillets for building up armadillo motives, are historically related to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_140">[140]</span>the method of decorating vessels by means of the attachment of +separate pieces. The armadillo motive can then be only a specialized +application of building up animal motives from the elements in question. +The elements themselves must not be considered primarily as +symbols of the armadillo, nor can all the animals built up of these +elements be interpreted as armadillos.</p> + +<p>The essential point of this consideration lies in the wide distribution +of technical and formal motives over large areas, although +differing in details in various localities. These technical and formal +motives are the materials with which the artist operates and they +determine the particular form which a geometrical motive or a life +motive takes. If the notched fillet and node are the material with +which the hand and the mind of the artist operate, they will occur +in all his representations.</p> + +<p>The investigators who have tried to prove that conventionalized +forms originate through a process of degeneration from representations, +have generally overlooked the strong influence of motor habits +and of formal arrangements upon the resultant style. In those cases +in which there is a tendency to organize decorative motives in rectangular +panels, in circular areas, or in fields defined in other ways, +the result must be quite different from others in which the artist +habitually arranges his material in large fields or in continuous bands. +The habit of decorating pottery by moulding and by adding on relief +forms, must lead to results different from those which are obtained +by painting or engraving. The use of lines and the habit of using +dots or circles will also effect the resultant style. I think there can +be very little doubt that if an artist is in the habit of using dot +designs combined with lines and if, later on, he tries to represent +an animal, this particular method will be applied in the representation. +The origin of the motor habits must probably be looked for +in technical processes, that of arrangement in the same processes +and in the forms of familiar utensils.</p> + +<p>Our examination of the factory-made material shows that the +process of slurring, or slovenly execution leads first of all to the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_141">[141]</span>development of individual characteristics that can best be compared +with handwriting. Pronounced mannerisms permit us to recognize +the hand of the artisan. It is only when an unusually careful and +ingenious person operates with this traditional material that new forms +develop, analogous to those described by Balfour. It will readily be +seen that these conditions are not often realized in primitive society.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_130" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_158.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 130. Chinese embroidery representing bats. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I believe another cause is more potent in bringing about a modification +of design. Ornamental patterns must be adjusted to the +decorative field to which they are applied. It is not often that the +artist is satisfied with representing part of his subject and cutting it +off where the decorative field ends. He will much rather distort +and adjust the parts in such a way that they all fit in the field that +he has at his disposal. When a bird is represented with outspread +wings, which would occupy approximately a square field, and the +space to be decorated is long and narrow, the artist may twist +body and tail about, and draw out the wings and thus squeeze +the design into the available space. Henry Balfour<a id="FNanchor_84_84" href="#Footnote_84_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a> gives as an +instance the adjustment of Chinese figures of bats to an ornamental +band (fig. <a href="#fig_130">130</a>).</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_84_84" href="#FNanchor_84_84" class="label">[84]</a> The Evolution of Art, 1893, p. 50.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The northwest coast Indians, who always take the greatest liberties +with the outer forms of animals, do not hesitate to distort them in +a way that allows the artist to adjust the animal to the decorative +field. Their method will be discussed in greater detail at another +place (see pp. <a href="#Page_183">183</a> et seq.).</p> + +<p>On shell discs from the mounds of Tennessee the rattlesnake is so +represented (fig. <a href="#fig_131">131</a>). The head of the rattlesnake with upturned upper +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_142">[142]</span>jaw is readily recognized in fig. <a href="#fig_131">131</a> <i>a</i>. Behind the mouth, the eye +represented by a number of circles, will be seen. The body continues +along the lower rim towards the right and terminates on the left, in +a rattle. The analogy between fig. <i>b</i> and <i>a</i> is easily recognized; +the essential difference consists in the fact that the body in <i>b</i> is +undecorated; the rattle lies just +over and behind the eye. +Figure <i>c</i> still preserves the +same form, but added to the +decorations found in the preceding +specimens, is the long +loop with small circles surrounding +the eye. The position +in <i>d</i> is slightly changed; the +eye will be easily recognized +and just to the right of it, more +upright than in the preceding +specimens, is the mouth with +a fang. The body is in the +same position as before, following +the rim of the disk and +ending in a rattle. In <i>e</i> the +mouth is very much shortened +and the eye is reduced to a +single small circle, while the +body and tail retain their +characteristic features.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp55" id="fig_131" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_159.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 131. Shell with representation + of rattle snake. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The formal elements which were discussed in the beginning of this +book exert a far-reaching influence upon decorative forms. The +exigencies of symmetry within a decorative field require adjustments +which may modify the representative form considerably. A peculiar +effect of inverted symmetry may be seen in those Borneo shields in +which the whole shield represents the face of a demon; one half to the +left of the vertical middle line right side up, the other half upside down.<a id="FNanchor_85_85" href="#Footnote_85_85" class="fnanchor">[85]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_85_85" href="#FNanchor_85_85" class="label">[85]</a> A. R. Hein, <span lang="de">Die bildende Künste bei den Dayaks of Borneo</span>, figs. 48, 49, 51.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_143">[143]</span></p> +<p>Much more potent than the necessities of formal adjustment is the +symbolic tendency which is liable to lead to abbreviations in which +the representation is reduced to the slightest indications. In our former +discussions we have seen that symbolic representations are very +common and that it happens in many cases that the symbol itself is +represented in a more or less perspective way. Wherever the art +of the people wavers between the symbolic and representative modes +of delineation, opportunity arises for the occurrence of realistic and +abbreviated forms, side by side. To this class belong the face urns, +the prehistoric representations of human figures in stone, and even +our busts and portraits may be considered as continuing this practice, +for they are fragmentary in so far as they show only that +part of the body in which we find the character of the individual +most clearly expressed; in part, because the rest of the body is always +covered by inexpressive clothing which hides whatever individuality +may exist. The principal character of forms of this type will be the +tendency to suggest an object by the indication of a few of the most +characteristic traits. It would probably be erroneous to speak in +these cases of a gradual breaking up of the realistic form and the +development from it of a conventional form, for this is not what +actually happens. The two types occur side by side.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_144">[144]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="STYLE">STYLE</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">We have to take up now the problem of individual art styles. +The general formal elements of which we spoke before, namely +symmetry, rhythm, and emphasis or delimitation of form, do not +describe adequately a specific style, for they underlie all forms of +ornamental art. Representative art is more apt to develop differential +features, for in each area symbolic, perspective and wavering representations +have peculiar, pronounced characteristics. The principles +of symbolic selection and the method of composition help to individualize +representative art forms; but, besides these, many formal +elements are integral parts of every art style and these give it its +most specific character. The New Zealander, the Melanesian, the +African, the Northwest American, the Eskimo,—all are in the habit +of carving human figures in the round. They are all representative, +and still the provenience of each is easily determined on account of +very definite formal characteristics.</p> + +<p>We shall direct our attention to an elucidation of the principles +by which art styles may be described. We shall also ask ourselves, +in how far the historical and psychological conditions under which +art styles grow up and flourish may be understood.</p> + +<p>It will be well to begin with a simple problem. We have seen +that we may consider as works of art undecorated implements made +by a perfectly controlled technique,—in other words made by a +virtuoso. Such are polished stone axes, chipped arrow or lance +heads, iron spear heads, spoons, boxes; in short, any object of daily +use, provided only the form which we may recognize as conceived +in crude specimens, is worked out in a perfect technique. Objects +of this kind, used for the same purposes, have not by any means +the same form everywhere. The specimens accumulated in ethnological +museums prove that, until very recent times, before contamination +by European wares, each locality, and also each cultural period +had developed fixed types that were rigidly adhered to.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_145">[145]</span></p> +<p>This observation is illustrated by the utensils of prehistoric times +as well as by those collected among the primitive tribes of our times. +The throwing sticks of the Eskimo may serve as an example. They +are used to give greater impetus to the hand-thrown weapon. The +principle of their use is the same among all the Eskimo tribes, but +they present highly specialized local forms, so distinct in appearance +that each type may with certainty be assigned to the region from +which it comes (fig. <a href="#fig_132">132</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_132" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_162.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 132. Throwing sticks of the Eskimo;<span class="nowrap"> <i>a</i>, Greenland;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>b</i>, Ungava Bay;</span> +<span class="nowrap"> <i>c</i>, Cumberland Sound;</span> +<span class="nowrap"> <i>d</i>, Point Barrow;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>e</i>, Alaska (exact location doubtful);</span> +<span class="nowrap"> <i>f</i>, Cape Nome.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>For the purpose of our inquiry it is important to understand the +reasons that bring about this fixity of type. In a tool like the +throwing stick it is obviously related to the manner of its use. The +clumsy board of Baffinland must feel unwieldy to the hand of a +native who has learned to handle the narrow, pegged stick from +Bering Sea. The adaptation of the hand to the handle does not +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_146">[146]</span>permit the use of forms that require unusual muscular movements +which would lessen the accuracy and ease of use. Therefore the +variations of form are confined within the limits established by the +fixed motor habits of the people. Even if a variation of form should +appeal to the eye, it will not be adopted if it should require a new +adjustment of the hands. The more fundamental the motor habits +that determine the form of the implement, the less likely will be +a deviation from the customary type.</p> + +<p>The motor habits which find expression in the forms of utensils +are in part highly specialized,—like those required for the effective +use of the throwing sticks just referred to,—but others are much more +general in character, and it would seem as though large divisions of +mankind were characterised by habits of this kind which influence +the forms of their implements and household goods. The restriction +to the islands of the Pacific Ocean of the process of producing fire +by ploughing; the areas of different types of arrow release described +by Edward S. Morse; the extended use of throwing clubs in Africa +and their relative insignificance in many parts of America are other +examples of this kind.</p> + +<p>A curious instance of the stability of motor habits is found among +the Eskimo; notwithstanding their great inventiveness the ancient +Eskimo does not seem to have used the saw for cutting large bones. +The cutting was always done by drilling holes close together along +the line on which the bone was to be divided. When enough holes +had been drilled the parts were separated by a blow of a hammer +or by means of a wedge; it seems that saws of flaked stone were +entirely unknown to these people.</p> + +<p>Another instance may be cited; the Indians of the North Pacific +Coast, from southern Alaska to central Vancouver Island, do not +practice the art of stone chipping and flaking. All their stone work +was made either in tough stones that are handled by sawing, battering, +pecking and polishing, or in soft stones that can be cut with a knife +and rubbed down with polishing materials. The beautiful chipped +blades, characteristic of their Eskimo neighbors in the north and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_147">[147]</span>their Indian neighbors on the interior plateaus and of the southern +coast tribes, are missing here entirely.</p> + +<p>Similar observations may be made in regard to the handling of +the knife. The North American woodcarver of modern times uses +principally the crooked knife, the blade of which forms part of a +spiral surface. Archaeological specimens of this type are rare<a id="FNanchor_86_86" href="#Footnote_86_86" class="fnanchor">[86]</a> so +that it is not certain whether this method of cutting was extensively +used in olden times. At present it is undoubtedly distributed +over the whole continent.<a id="FNanchor_87_87" href="#Footnote_87_87" class="fnanchor">[87]</a> The knife is used like a spoke-shave, +being drawn towards the body. In Africa, on the other hand, +carving is done with a rasp and a straight<a id="FNanchor_88_88" href="#Footnote_88_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a> double-bladed knife. I +find the use of a crooked, sickle shaped knife mentioned only once, +as being applied to the shaving down of an arrow shaft and, +presumably, to similar purposes. Schweinfurth<a id="FNanchor_89_89" href="#Footnote_89_89" class="fnanchor">[89]</a> mentions that the +Mangbattu are the only people in the regions he visited,—including +even Egyptians—, who are familiar with the use of the single-edged +carving knife, while all the others use the double-edged knife. Of +the Ila speaking people it is also said that they use a spear blade +for carving<a id="FNanchor_90_90" href="#Footnote_90_90" class="fnanchor">[90]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_86_86" href="#FNanchor_86_86" class="label">[86]</a> Harlan I. Smith, Archaeology of the Thompson River Region, Publ. Jesup +North Pacific Expedition, Vol. I, fig. 352 <i>d</i>, p. 418; James Teit, The Thompson +Indians, <i>ibid.</i> figs. 125, 126. p. 184; perhaps also the beaver tooth knife, <i>ibid.</i> +fig. 49, p. 144.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_87_87" href="#FNanchor_87_87" class="label">[87]</a> Otis T. Mason, Report U. S. National Museum, 1897, pt. 1, pp. 725 et seq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_88_88" href="#FNanchor_88_88" class="label">[88]</a> M. Weiss,<span lang="de"> Die Völkerstämme im Norden Deutsch-Ostafrikas</span>, p. 421 et seq.; +also G. Tessmann, Die Pangwe, p. 222; Jan <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Czekanowsky" id="Czekanowsky">Czekanowski</ins> (Ruanda) l. c. (see p. 111) +p. 155.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_89_89" href="#FNanchor_89_89" class="label">[89]</a> G. Schweinfurth, <span lang="de">Im Herzen von Afrika</span>, 3d ed. p. 349.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_90_90" href="#FNanchor_90_90" class="label">[90]</a> E. W. Smith and A. M. Dale, The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, +Vol. I, p. 199.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>Another example illustrating our point is presented by the hammers +used by the Indians of the northwest coast of North America. The +coast tribes of Washington use a hand hammer made of a single +bowlder with a lateral striking head, the tribes of Vancouver Island, +a hand hammer also made of a single bowlder, with a cylindrical +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[148]</span>shaft and a flat striking head at the lower end<a id="FNanchor_91_91" href="#Footnote_91_91" class="fnanchor">[91]</a>; those of northern +British Columbia a heavy hammerstone lashed to a large wooden handle.</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_91_91" href="#FNanchor_91_91" class="label">[91]</a> Franz Boas, The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island, Publications of the Jesup +North Pacific Expedition, Vol. 5, pp. 314 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>In another way habits of movement or position find expression +in household furniture and dress. Tribes among which squatting +on the ground is habitual do not use stools or chairs. Those in +the habit of lying on their sides do not use neck rests which are +found among people with elaborate hair dress that lie on their backs.</p> + +<p>The clothing of women is adapted to the manner in which they +carry their children. The hood of the Eskimo woman of Baffinland +accommodates the child that is carried on the back. The wide boot +of the women of Southampton Island and of the ancient styles of +Hudson Strait served to protect the child that was carried on the hip.</p> + +<p>It is hardly likely that the habits of the people originated from +forms of the household goods they used. It is much more probable +that the inventions were determined by older habits. In later +times the relation may have been reversed, in so far as each generation +stabilizes its habits in accordance with the objects to which it +is accustomed.</p> + +<p>A similar permanence of form of utensils which are adjusted to +definite motor habits exists in modern times, as is illustrated by the +rigidity of form of many tradesmen’s tools or the permanence of +the keyboard of the piano.</p> + +<p>The same conservatism, although based on the training of another +sense organ, is found in the stability of the forms of the letters of +our alphabet. In writing, both the firmly established motor habits +and the fixity of the associations between visual image and form, +help to stabilize old forms and to make difficult innovations.</p> + +<p>The stability of language is another phenomenon of the same kind. +The fundamental phonetic characteristics of a language are based on +motor habits; the use of vocabulary and of grammatical forms partly +on auditory associations. In all these cases; in the use of tools, forms +and language the mind becomes so thoroughly adjusted to the use +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_149">[149]</span>of definite motor habits, and to certain types of association between +sense impressions and definite activities, that a resistance to change +appears as the most natural mental attitude; if for no other reason, +because it requires the effort of unlearning and relearning. It must +be understood that this does not imply an absolute stability, which +does not exist, but merely the individual resistance to sudden changes.</p> + +<p>In another way this resistance is expressed through an emotional +attachment to customary forms. In the domain of tools it is perhaps +not so much the pleasure of play that induces man to bestow +much labor upon the manufacture of his utensils, as rather the love +of the special tool that he is using, a love that implies pleasure in +the customary movements as well as in the form of the implement. +This mental attitude is one of the most important sources of the conservatism +in the form of objects of use, and of the tendency to give +to them the greatest possible technical excellence. The intensity of +the emotional relation between a person and his tool is naturally +greatest when maker and user are the same person; it must decay +with the ease with which substitutes are obtained. Here is one of +the causes of the rapid decay in the beauty of form of native utensils +as soon as European tools and manufactures are introduced.</p> + +<p>While the lack of variation in the forms of utensils, and their +regional characterisation are often expressions of definite motor +habits, or of other sensory reactions that are firmly associated with +useful activities which have become culturally fixed, there are other +cases in which conservative retention of form may not be thus +explained. This is true particularly when the use of an object does +not depend to any considerable extent upon its form. Whether a +basket is round or oblong, angular or without corners does not +influence the mode of its use, unless it serves as a carrying basket. +Still, in many cases the familiarity established through long use of +the objects may readily lead to an emotional attachment that finds +expression in permanence of form, and in the refusal to accept new, +unfamiliar shapes for every day use, an emotional resistance to change +that may be variously expressed,—as a feeling of impropriety of certain +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_150">[150]</span>forms; of a particular social or religious value, or of superstitious fear +of change. Permanence of form is also favored by the participation +of many individuals in the manufacture of objects. In most cases +every person supplies his own needs. The number of original minds +is certainly no larger in primitive society than in our own, although +I do not believe that it is any smaller. The bulk of the makers of +objects of every day use are, therefore, imitators, not originators, and +the mass of uniform material that is in use and constantly seen +will restrict the free play of imagination of the original minds. The +desire for deliberate attempts to create something novel, that characterises +the industries of our times, is not present, just as little as +it is present among our peasants, so far as they are uncontaminated +by city influences. I do not mean to imply that primitive forms +are absolutely stable. Nothing could be farther from the truth; but +the conscious striving for change that characterizes our fashions, is +rare. We are also conservative in forms, a modification of which +would require fundamental changes of habits.</p> + +<p>The stability of the inner arrangements of houses, notwithstanding +all variations in detail; the adherence to types of windows used in +different countries; the forms of churches, our localized food habits +are all examples of a considerable degree of conservatism. This +prevails also at least in part, in the fundamental patterns of male +and female attire.</p> + +<p>Conservatism of form makes itself felt in many cases in which an +object is made of new material. The relinquishment of the old material +may be due to lack of an adequate supply of the old material, or it +may be an innovation due to an inner creative impulse. It constitutes +a break with the past. The old forms, however, are often retained. +Such substitutions are the more liable to occur the more plastic the +new material. Pottery, to a lesser extent wood, and also stone are +the principal materials in which forms can be imitated in the round. +Particularly pottery lends itself readily to the manufacture of a great +variety of forms. When the necessary skill in tempering the clay, +in modeling and firing has been attained, the opportunity is presented +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_151">[151]</span>for copying a great variety of forms. Thus we find shell dishes and +spoons, gourd vessels and basket forms imitated in pottery. We +still continue doing so. We have in our China ware innumerable +instances of copies of even the finest fabrics. In Africa we find clay +lamps which are evidently derived from the forms of bronze lamps +of antiquity in which the complicated feet are imitations of wire +work, and many pottery vessels seem to be copies of baskets. For +instance, the handled ceremonial clay dishes of the Pueblo Indians +look more like baskets than like pottery forms.</p> + +<p>On account of the great frequency of imitative forms in pottery +the theory has been advanced, that all pottery forms must have +originated from prototypes that were first made in some other +technique. Professor Schuchardt<a id="FNanchor_92_92" href="#Footnote_92_92" class="fnanchor">[92]</a> assumes that the first neolithic +forms which are pointed at the base, must be copies of bottles made +of hide. Cushing and Holmes<a id="FNanchor_93_93" href="#Footnote_93_93" class="fnanchor">[93]</a> have advocated the theory that +pottery and pottery designs developed from basketry, that pots were +first of all modeled over a basket and that the basket with its clay +cover was then fired. The basket was thus burnt and the clay +vessel remained in the form of the basket. In corroboration of +this theory it has been pointed out that actually clay covered baskets +have been found, on the surface of which the ornamental pattern +that is usually found on the basket is painted on the clay. These +attempts do not seem to me convincing. The oldest pottery that +we know is very crude and does not recall any other technical +form. The Eskimo made clay lamps of unbaked clay that seems +to be merely squeezed into shape. It seems much more likely that +the firing of clay was discovered when foods were cooked on clayey +soil or in pits in clayey ground, than that baskets should be made +watertight by an application of clay and that the basket, the making +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_152">[152]</span>of which is a laborious process, should then have been intentionally +destroyed. However, I do not wish to introduce a new unproven theory +in place of others. For our purpose it is sufficient to recognize +the frequent copies of natural and technical forms in pottery.</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_92_92" href="#FNanchor_92_92" class="label">[92]</a> Carl Schuchardt, <span lang="de">Alteuropa</span>, Berlin 1919, p. 44.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_93_93" href="#FNanchor_93_93" class="label">[93]</a> W. H. Holmes, Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic +Art, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery; Fourth Annual Report +Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1886. There is, however, evidence that pots +were moulded on baskets, then removed and fired.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>The same happens, although not quite so extensively in wood +carving and even in stone work, particularly in soft stones that may +be worked with a knife. Wooden copies of objects made of buffalo +horn occur in Africa. Many of the beautifully carved wooden +goblets from the Congo region look to me like pottery vessels, held +in place by stone supports. Carvings in wood imitate forms made +by joining pieces together. In some regions we find stone vessels +of the same form that is usually used for wooden ones. Best known +among imitative stone forms are the prehistoric European stone axes +which are copies of the forms of bronze weapons that were in use +in more southern regions, or the stone settees of ancient South +America, copies of wooden seats.</p> + +<p>We have spoken so far only of the general forms of the objects, +not of decoration or ornament. We have seen in our discussion +of the purely formal elements that the technique will sometimes +bring about patterns on the surfaces of the manufactured objects. +We mentioned the patterns produced by flaking of stone, by adzing +and by weaving with coarse material. The importance of these +surface patterns for the development or ornament can hardly be +overstated. When a large board is adzed, the workman must shift +his position in order to cover the whole board. According to the +way he moves, different patterns of adjoining surfaces may develop. +Much more important are the patterns that naturally develop when +a weaver plays with his technique, that is when he or she is no +longer satisfied with the simple weaving up and down, but begins +to skip strands and thus introduces more complex rhythms of movement. +The solidity of the fabric requires alternations of skipping +and thus the twilling leads immediately to diagonal surface patterns. +The more complex the rhythmic movements, the more complex +will also be the patterns. The attempt has been made to trace the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_153">[153]</span>origin of all important decorative patterns to this source. I presume +this is an exaggeration, because other conditions may as well lead +to the discovery of designs. I say advisedly discovery, not invention, +for I believe, with those investigators who would derive all patterns +from weaving, that intentional invention is less important than the +discovery of possibilities which come to be observed as an effect +of the play, particularly the rhythmic play with technical processes.</p> + +<p>I presume that the occurrence of a number of simple ornamental +elements may be explained as technically determined. We have +seen before that the straight line and the regular curve such as circle +and spiral presuppose an accurate technique, that they are too rare +in nature to be considered as representative in character. The +straight line may be the result of cutting, folding or splitting some +kinds of wood, of the use of reeds or similar materials, of stretching +fibres and of many other processes. Circles may originate by the +regular turning of coiled basketry and of coiled pottery: spirals by +the laying of coarse coils. Weaving in coarse material leads to +rectangular figures, to checker patterns, steplike diagonals and to +many other complicated forms. Tying with cord produces straight +lines intersecting at various angles and also parallel, circular and +spiral forms. We may confidently claim independent origin in +separate areas for the triangular design in basketry (fig. <a href="#fig_104">104</a> <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, +p. 109); for simple radial forms in coiled basketry placques; for +the swastika cross, the meander and for many other simple forms, +like the spirals of prehistoric Bohemia; of eastern Siberia; of +Melanesia and of ancient New Mexico; in the sameness of design +elements from Africa and America; in the occurrence of the +circle and central dot in prehistoric Europe and among the +Eskimo. The principle of symmetry, of balance, of rhythmic repetition +and of emphasis laid upon prominent points or lines apply to +all kinds of technique and many lead to parallel developments.</p> + +<p>We have seen that in some cases, simple elements which develop +independently, possess stylistic peculiarities that differentiate one locality +from another. But even if the forms are identical, the arrangement +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_154">[154]</span>in the decorative field is liable to give a specific form to the art of +each locality.</p> + +<p>The negroes of the Congo present an excellent example of the +transfer of design from one technique to another. Their woven +patterns consist largely of intersecting bands, imitating the interweaving +of broad bands. These motives appear in most of the decorative +work of these tribes. Their embroidered pile cloth (fig. <a href="#fig_133">133</a>) imitates +the interwoven patterns; they reappear on their wood carvings, +particularly on their goblets (see fig. <a href="#fig_52">52</a>, p. 59), and on carvings on +buffalo horns.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_133" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_171.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 133. Pile cloth, Congo. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Interwoven bands that look like imitations of coarse weaving are also +very common in American art. They are found in many parts of South +America and among the Pueblo Indians. Some of the wood carving +of Tonga is evidently influenced in style by the artistic methods of +tying, which are highly developed in the islands of the Pacific Ocean.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_155">[155]</span></p> +<p>Granting all this, it still remains obscure why there should be +that degree of individualization of style that is actually observed +even where similar technical processes prevail. The Indians of +Guiana and the Indonesians use the same methods of weaving in +rather broad, stiff materials. The technical conditions controlling +their basketry work are practically the same. Nevertheless the +styles of art they use are quite distinctive.</p> + +<p>We conclude from this that besides the influence of the technique +there must be some other causes that determine the individual style +of each area. I doubt very much that it will ever be possible to +give a satisfactory explanation of the origin of these styles, just as +little as we can discover all the psychological and historical conditions +that determine the development of language, social structure, mythology +or religion. All these are so exceedingly complex in their +growth that even at best we can do no more than hope to unravel +some of the threads that are woven into the present fabric and +determine some of the lines of behavior that may help us to realize +what is happening in the minds of the people.</p> + +<p>We have to turn our attention first of all to the artist himself. +Heretofore we have considered only the work of art without any +reference to the maker. Only in the case of slovenly work have +we referred to the artisan. It has appeared that his behavior as +revealed in his work helped us to understand the fate of the designs. +We may hope, therefore, that in the broader question also knowledge +of the attitude and actions of the artist will contribute to a +clearer understanding of the history of art styles. Unfortunately, +observations on this subject are very rare and unsatisfactory, for it +requires an intimate knowledge of the people to understand the +innermost thoughts and feelings of the artist. Even with thorough +knowledge the problem is exceedingly difficult, for the mental +processes of artistic production do not take place in the full light of +consciousness. The highest type of artistic production is there, and +its creator does not know whence it comes. It would be an error +to assume that this attitude is absent among tribes whose artistic +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_156">[156]</span>productions seem to us so much bound by a hard and fast style +that there is little room for the expression of individual feeling and +for the freedom of the creative genius. I recall the instance of +an Indian from Vancouver Island who was suffering of a lingering +malady that confined him to his bed. He had been a good painter +but his productions did not differ stylistically in any way from those +of his tribe. During his long illness he would sit on his bed, +holding his brush between his lips, silent and apparently oblivious +of his surroundings. He could hardly be induced to speak, but +when he spoke he dilated upon his visions of designs that he could +no longer execute. Undoubtedly his was the mind and the attitude +of a true, inspired artist.</p> + +<p>The general character of the artistic productions of man, the world +over, shows that the style has the power of limiting the inventiveness +of the productive artist; for, if we grant that potential genius like the +one just described is born in all cultures, then the uniformity of art +forms in a given tribe can be understood only by these limitations.</p> + +<p>The restriction of inventiveness is not due, as might perhaps +be supposed, to the habit of copying old designs and to a sluggishness +of the imagination of the artisan who finds it easier to copy +than to invent. On the contrary, primitive artists hardly ever copy. +Only in very exceptional cases are found working designs such as +we employ in embroidery, dressmaking, woodcarving and architecture. +The work is laid out in the mind of the maker before he begins +and is a direct realization of the mental image. In the process of +carrying out such a plan technical difficulties may arise that compel +him to alter his intentions. Such instances can easily be discovered +in the finished product and are highly instructive, because they throw +a strong light upon the mental processes of the workman. We may +see particularly in richly decorated basketry how such difficulties arise +and what influence they exert upon the development of the design.</p> + +<p>Even in the making of mass products, like the pottery which we +described before, (pp. <a href="#Page_132">132</a> et seq.) copying is evidently not practised. +The patterns are so simple and require only a small number of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[157]</span>standardized movements which are combined in a variety of ways. +The method of work corresponds strictly to our method of writing +in which also a number of standardized movements occur in a +multitude of combinations.</p> + +<p>Although the artisan works without copying, his imagination never +rises beyond the level of the copyist, for he merely uses familiar +motives composed in customary ways. It does not require much +practice to learn how to carry out such simple work without patterns. +The method of procedure is the same as that followed in European +folk art. The embroidered or woven patterns, the wood carvings +of European peasants are not copies of patterns but the results of +individual composition. Pattern books appear only at a time when the +folk art is decadent. Therefore, notwithstanding the rigidity of style it +would be difficult to find two objects that have identical ornamentation.</p> + +<p>When designs are very complex, and rigid symmetry or accurate +rhythmic repetitions are required, we find sometimes the use of +stencils. It does also happen, that one person plans a design and +another executes it. In these cases actual copying may occur; both +of these instances are rare in primitive culture and do not modify +the general picture as here outlined.</p> + +<p>It is interesting to hear the opinions of individuals who create +new designs. We have already seen that the novelty consists +generally in the combination of old pattern elements in new ways. +Nevertheless, the authors of these designs are convinced that they +have created something new. I have information on the attitude of +these artists only from the North American Indians. They call +designs of this kind “dream designs”, and claim that the new +pattern actually appeared to them in a dream. This explanation of +the origin of the new form is remarkably uniform over the whole +continent. It has been recorded on the Great Plains, on the north +western Plateaus and among the Pueblo Indians. There is little +doubt but that this is merely another term for invention. It +expresses a strong power of visualization which manifests itself when +the person is alone and at rest, when he can give free play to the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_158">[158]</span>imagination. Perhaps the artists have greater eidetic power than most +adults among ourselves. The few individuals who create new forms +in this manner have probably a good control over the technique and +wide command over a multitude of current forms. In the one case +which has been investigated with some care by James Teit the woman +who created new basketry patterns was also one of the best technicians +and had full command over the greatest variety of forms.</p> + +<p>When the patterns made by individual artists are compared, it is +seen that the number of designs made by different individuals differs +very considerably. Some have command of the full range of forms, +while others are satisfied with a small number which they repeat +over and over again.</p> + +<p>The controlling power of a strong, traditional style is surprising. +The Northwest coast people have characteristic methods of representing +heads, eyes, eyebrows and joints; fig. <a href="#fig_67">67</a> (p. 71) shows the +attempt of an excellent Haida artist who tried to illustrate the tale +of an eagle who carried away a woman.</p> + +<p>The general form of the eagle is quite realistic, but the artist +could not avoid placing the characteristic eye design in the wing +joint of the eagle, and to render the head in the conventional style +in which the eagle is shown. The woman whom the eagle carries +has the typical eyebrow and cheek patterns. The style has penetrated +the picture which was planned as a realistic representation.</p> + +<p>Similar observations may be made in regard to the Wasgo, the +fabulous sea-monster with a wolf’s body and large ears. In fig. +<a href="#fig_134">134</a> it is shown carrying a whale between its ears, another one in +its tail, and a person in the mouth. It has the characteristic high +nose of the wolf, the ears turned back (here shown as transparent). +The large shoulder and hip joints and the hands and feet in form +of eyes are features of Northwest coast art. The whale with its +round eyes, blow-hole, and characteristic tail conforms also to the +local art style. Still the artist attempted to give a realistic painting.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_134" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_176_134.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 134. Haida painting representing a sea-monster in the form of a wolf, + carrying two whales. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_135" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_176_135.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 135. Haida drawing representing the story of a young man + who caught a sea-monster. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Quite analagous is another painting by the same Haida artist, +Charles Edensaw (fig. <a href="#fig_135">135</a>) who tried to illustrate for me a Haida +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159"></a><a id="Page_160"></a>[160]</span>story of a man who caught the sea-monster Wasgo by placing a split +cedar tree under water. It was held open by means of a spreading-stick. +A child was placed in it as bait and when the monster +appeared to devour the child, the youth knocked out the spreading-stick; +the tree closed and caught the monster. In this sketch the +tree is shown by the black, sharp angle, set on the inside with +teeth that killed the monster. The spreading-stick, +which holds the split tree apart +is indicated by the black crossbar. The +Wasgo in the form of a wolf with large +dorsal fin is shown biting the head of the +child, while the youth sits on the tree. +The story continues telling that the youth +dons the Wasgo skin and goes every night +to hunt sea game which he deposits on +the beach of the village. His mother-in-law +claims shamanistic power and pretends +to have obtained the game. When +the youth makes known that he has +killed it, his mother-in-law falls down +being shamed by the young man. She is +shown on the left in shamanistic dress +with shell rattles, shamanistic apron, neck +ring of bone ornaments and the shamanistic crown. Her position +indicates that she is falling. It will be noticed that here also every +figure shows characteristic traits of the northwest coast ornamental style.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp45" id="fig_136" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_177.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 136. Haida drawing representing + part of the raven + story. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_136">136</a> part of the raven story is represented. The human +figure in the left hand upper corner presumably represents the +owner of the halibut hook. Under it is shown the raven flying and +carrying on his back the owner of the halibut hook. According +to this story he throws him into the sea, takes the halibut hook +and begins to fish. This incident is shown on the right hand side +of the sketch. The meaning of the seal in the upper right hand +corner is not clear.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_161">[161]</span></p> +<p>We have seen that in representative art the particular type of +perspective or symbolic form or the combination of the two determines +in part the local style. We have to turn now to a consideration +of the purely formal elements that characterize style. We may +distinguish here between the forms of ornamentation and their +composition. A general survey +of the field of primitive art +convinces us at once of the +great variety of elementary +forms and of their sharp localization. +As an instance of the +importance of fundamental +forms I choose the occurrence +of the spiral. It is characteristic +of the art of New Zealand, +of Melanesia, and of the Amur +tribes,—to select only a few +typical examples. And still, how +great are the differences, how +sharply specialized the spiral +of each of these districts!</p> + +<p>Practically all the spirals in +primitive art are equidistant. It +can easily be shown that spirals +develop in many different ways. +As has been pointed out by Semper, the coiling of wire or the making of +coiled basketry or pottery must lead to the discovery of the ornamental +spiral. Wrapping with twine may have a similar result. In other cases +the spiral develops without technical motives from natural forms. This +is exemplified, for instance, by the spirals used for expressing the +nostrils of the beaver, bear and dragon-fly in northwest coast art (see +figs. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a> p. 186, <a href="#fig_175">175</a> p. 193). It is, however, doubtful whether the spiral +has ever become in this manner a dominant motive of local art.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_137" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_178.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 137. Types of New Zealand spirals. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The New Zealand carved spiral (fig. <a href="#fig_137">137</a>) is generally double; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_162">[162]</span>one arm running in, the other out, and the two clasping each other +in the center. The spirals are so placed that their general contours +harmonize with the decorative field, although their outer turns often +cut into its borders. The appearance of the spiral is strongly influenced +by the application of a common pattern of carving, which +consists of a long lineal field with crosshatching limited by two or +more equidistant lines. The two arms of the spiral are connected +at regular intervals by small bars having crossline decoration. In other +cases the spirals themselves are decorated with crosslines, while the +surrounding lines are smooth. Sometimes the spirals are given a +notched outline. Single spirals consisting of a number of equidistant +lines, occur in tattooing and in wood carving representing tattooed +faces. Spirals are often connected and form S shaped figures and +when placed serially in a narrow field, they are accompanied by a +series of equidistant lines,—fragments of the outer turns that would +have shown if the spiral had been able to develop freely.</p> + +<p>The spiral of eastern New Guinea is in some ways similar to the +one of New Zealand. The double spiral appears commonly in both +areas, also the notches or scallops on the spiral and the filling in +of the gore with curved lines accompanying the outer turns of the +spiral (fig. <a href="#fig_138_139">138</a>). The lack of connecting bars, of the crossline decoration +and the fundamentally different design arrangement, as well +as the treatment in black and white differentiate the New Guinea +spiral from that of New Zealand. The curves are fitted much more +rigorously in the decorative field. The great freedom of the New +Zealand forms, the delicate accuracy of all the constituent elements, +and the multiplicity of forms connected with the spiral, are absent.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_138_139" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_180.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 138. Types of spirals from eastern New Guinea.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 139. Spirals from the Amur River.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The third area, the Amur region, in which the spiral is used +extensively, represents fundamentally different forms, (fig. <a href="#fig_138_139">139</a>). +While the spirals of New Zealand and those of New Guinea are +equally wide through the whole distance of their course, those of +the Amur region show peculiar lateral developments. The spirals +of this area are generally single, and broad; or double, but the +spirals do not clasp each other. The outlines of the spiral bands +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_163">[163]</span>are varied by strictures. Where the general course of these spirals +leaves fields that would remain undecorated, they are filled in by +broad tendrils, leaf like projections or by independent circular ornaments +that help to keep the background broken up in bands that +retain throughout approximately the same width. Often the variations +in the lines of spirals form animal figures, particularly birds +and fishes; sometimes of fairly realistic form.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<figure class="figleft illowp65" id="fig_140" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_181.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 140. Pictographs representing human beings: + <span class="nowrap"><i>a</i>, Potawatomi;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>b</i>, + <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Wahpaton" id="Wahpaton">Wahpeton</ins> Sioux;</span> +<span class="nowrap"><i>c</i>, Blackfoot;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>d</i>, Dakota;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>e</i>, Alaskan Eskimo; + </span><span class="nowrap"><i>f</i>, Pencil sketches</span> by + Eskimo from the west coast of Hudson Bay. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fixity of form occurs even in crude representative drawings made +without such technical skill as is developed in industrial occupations. +This is strikingly illustrated by certain forms used by the Algonquin +tribes of the woodlands around the western Great Lakes and also +by the neighboring Siouan tribes. In their pictographs the human +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_164">[164]</span>figures appear regularly with broad shoulders, tapering down in +straight lines to the waist. Sometimes the figure is cut off at this +place; sometimes it expands +downward from +the waist. Fig. <a href="#fig_140">140</a> <i>a</i> represents +a Potawatomi +drawing; fig. <a href="#fig_140">140</a> <i>b</i> a +Wahpeton Sioux drawing +of the same type. +In the winter counts +of the Sioux published +by Mallory, the human +figure is represented +in quite a different +style, (fig. <a href="#fig_140">140</a> <i>d</i>). This +type occurs both in the +La Flamme and Lone-Dog +winter counts. We +may compare these +forms with the typical +symbol used by the +Blackfeet to represent +a slain enemy, which, +according to Wissler, +has always the form +given in <i>c</i>. On the +reproductions of pictographs +the same form +appears, often with only +one leg. Quite distinct +from these Plains +Indians types are the forms used by the Alaskan Eskimos in their +etchings on bone, antler, and ivory (<i>e</i>). The forms are always small +silhouettes in lively motion and the realism of form and movement +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_165">[165]</span>of the Eskimo etchings forms a strong contrast when compared to the +conventional style of the Plains and Woodlands Indians. Even the +pictographic representations of men in motion, which do occur in +other types of Plains Indian drawings, differ entirely in style from +those of the Eskimo. The style of the eastern Eskimos representation +of the human form differs considerably from that of the Alaskan +Eskimo. They do not use silhouettes but draw their forms true to +life with particular attention to the details of the clothing (fig. <a href="#fig_140">140</a> <i>f</i>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_141" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_182.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 141. Pictographs; <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, from the Cueva de los Caballos; <i>d</i>, Bushman. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Quite distinct from these forms are the representations of the +human form made by the Bushman and by paleolithic man. They are +always silhouettes of large size with strong exaggerations of characteristic +forms and movements of the body, (fig. <a href="#fig_141">141</a>). Obermaier has +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_166">[166]</span>described these in detail.<a id="FNanchor_94_94" href="#Footnote_94_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a> Some of the figures in lively motion are +represented with thread-like legs and body, while in other cases the +calves of the legs are shown in exaggerated sizes. The Bushman +paintings are somewhat similar in type to those of the paleolithic +period. We find the same exaggeration of the length of the limbs +and particularly in the representation of females, exaggeration of all +the characteristic features of the body.</p> +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_94_94" href="#FNanchor_94_94" class="label">[94]</a> H. Obermaier, P. Wernert,<span lang="es"> Las Pinturas Rupestres del Barranco de Valletorta. +(Castellon) Comisión de investigaciones paleontológicas y prehistóricas, Mem. +No. 23. Museo Nacional de ciencias naturales</span>, Madrid 1919.</p></div> +</div> +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>In almost every art definite stylistic forms may be recognized. I +will add a few additional examples based on certain classes of objects +which illustrate this.</p> + +<p>Miss Ruth Bunzel has given to me a full description of the decoration +of the water jar of the Zuni. “It is characterized by great stability +in decorative style. The form of the jar itself shows very slight variations. +The outer surface is slipped with white clay which serves +as a background for painted decorations in black and red. The +most characteristic feature of the decorative scheme is the boxing +off of the field into clearly defined areas outlined by heavy black +lines. The ways in which the field is thus divided and the designs +permissible in each section are all definitely prescribed by prevailing +standards of taste.</p> + +<p>“Essential on every jar is the division of the field into two zones +known as neck and body. Neck designs are always used in pairs, +four or six alternating units being used on each jar. At the present +time the choice of designs for the neck is limited to two sets of +designs, the way in which they are combined being absolutely fixed. +Alternating diamond and triangular patterns, both highly elaborated, +are used together, and, on the other hand a scroll and conventionalized +prayer-stick are used together on other jars.</p> + +<p>“For the body there is a greater choice of design, but the choice +is between certain well known patterns, and the ways in which each +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_167">[167]</span>may be used are definitely fixed. The most characteristic and, at +the present time, the most popular type is the deer-sunflower pattern +(fig. <a href="#fig_142">142</a>). Two large medallions representing sunflowers are +painted on opposite sides of the jar. Three such medallions are +sometimes used, but two is the preferred number. The space between +the medallions is divided horizontally by a narrow band. The +band may be filled with small conventionalized birds or with an +interlocking scroll figure. +In each of the spaces +formed by this band are +painted two deer, each +surrounded by graceful +scroll work, called in +Zuni terminology ‘the +deer’s house’. In all, +eight deer are used, two +in each of the four fields. +The deer are always +painted in exactly the +same way, in profile +with the head to the +right, and with certain +of the internal organs indicated. There is no variation even in the +ornamental scrolls surrounding the representation. In small jars it is +permitted to substitute for the deer on the lower and smaller part +of the jar one of several well defined crook or scroll patterns, but any +other departures from the established scheme are severely criticised. +The first of the two rim designs referred to above is always used +with the deer pattern. The whole composition in precisely the +combination described appears over and over again in water jars now +in use at Zuni as well as in older specimens now in our museums, +and the fixity of the type is clearly recognized by native artists.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_142" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_184.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 142. Zuni pot. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>“This is only one of a number of equally fixed types of decoration +at present in favor at Zuni. There is, for instance, one very +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_168">[168]</span>elaborate terraced figure repeated in literally hundreds of specimens +of water jars, and always without the slightest variation either in the +figure itself or in its application to the jar. It is always used in threes +and with the second of +the two rim designs. There +are other types also, any +one of which is known to +and can be described by +any well informed Zuni +potter. Although the invention +of new designs +is considered eminently +desirable among them, +the actual number of Zuni +pots that do not belong to +one or the other of these +recognized types is exceedingly +small.”</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_143" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_185.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 143. Haussa embroideries. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>As another example I +choose the style of embroidery +on Haussa shirts +(fig. <a href="#fig_143">143</a>). Felix von +Luschan has called attention +to the rigidity of the +general pattern.<a id="FNanchor_95_95" href="#Footnote_95_95" class="fnanchor">[95]</a> A narrow +elongated field in the left +hand upper corner of the +design surrounded on the left by a thin white line, on the right +by a white field with long pointed triangles, limits the hole through +which the head passes. The white disk to the left of it rests, therefore +on the right side of the chest, the upper disk on the right +shoulder blade. The line dividing the design into an upper and lower +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_169">[169]</span>part, beginning just at the lower end of the slit through which the head +passes, sets off the embroidery on the body of the shirt from that on the +large pocket below. The upper rim of the pocket is always decorated +with a central design, consisting of a square field with checkered +figures, to the left of which are two triangles, to the right, three. In +many specimens there is, on the right border of the field, a looped +band. The design on the lower part of the pocket and the one on +the body of the shirt are, in the main, symmetrical. The three-barbed +arrow pattern of the lower border reappears on top followed inside +by the same type of rosette. The two designs differ, however, in +so far as the three-pointed pattern with the connected loop band +is repeated to the right of the slit for the head, turned at right +angles to the corresponding portion on the pocket border. This +pattern disturbs the symmetry of the upper and lower designs and +produces a distortion of the upper one which, however, does not +influence the pattern elements. On the pocket below and to the left, +is a rectangular band with a leaf design forming an inner border.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_95_95" href="#FNanchor_95_95" class="label">[95]</a> Felix von Luschan, Beiträge zur Völkerkunde, p. 50. Patterns of the same +kind have been figured by Leo Frobenius in <span lang="de">“Das sterbende Afrika,”</span> Pls. 58-60.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Great fixity of design appears also in the rawhide boxes of the +Sauk and Fox Indians, to which I referred before (p. 25 et seq.). The +characteristic feature is the division of the rectangular hide that is +to form the box, into three fields lengthwise, five fields crosswise. +The five fields are determined by the way in which the box is +folded; four sides forming front, bottom, back and top, and the fifth +a flap covering the front. The lengthwise division is not so determined, +for the width of the box differs considerably from that of +the central field. The design elements are based on common patterns +of the Indians of the northern part of North America: rectangles +divided by central longitudinal lines and obtuse triangles on +each side of it. It should be noticed that the design unit is not +the diamond but the rectangle with two obtuse triangles that have +the apex near the central dividing line. This appears clearly in the +specimen shown in fig. <a href="#fig_144">144</a> <i>b</i> in which every design begins at the +margin with a triangle pointing inward towards the opposite triangle +and also in the other figures in which, in accordance with the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_170">[170]</span>art style of the eastern woodlands, a segment is substituted for the +acute triangle. A second element in these designs is the acute +triangle with lines, or a single line, extending from the apex; +a form which is also common to all the woodland and plains Indians.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_144" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_187.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 144. Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_145" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_188.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 145. Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>Two styles of these paintings may be distinguished; one in which +the five crosswise fields are so treated that the patterns on the three +central rectangular fields (2, 3, 4) are at right angles to those in +the two extreme fields (1, 5). In the central fields the long sides +of the rectangles run parallel to the narrow side of the hide and in +the outer ones, the rectangles are turned so that the long sides are +parallel to the long side of the hide. The central lengthwise field +extends only over the three middle fields and is very narrow +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_171">[171]</span>(figs. <a href="#fig_13_14">14</a>, + <a href="#fig_144">144</a>, <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>). The only ornament + on fig. <a href="#fig_144">144</a> <i>b</i> is the rectangle +with two obtuse triangles facing at the apex. To the four rectangles +on 2, 3, 4 correspond four corresponding ones in the fields 1 and 5. +In fig. <a href="#fig_144">144</a> <i>a</i> there is an alternation of two designs in these fields. There +are two triangles with protruding lines with complex frames, and +rectangles with the obtuse triangles transformed into segments. The +central dividing line in these rectangles is missing. It will be noticed +that here also the number of rectangles in the three inner fields (2, +3, 4) corresponds to the number in the outer fields (1 and 5), but +their order is reversed. Left and right triangles in the outer fields +(1 and 5) are also in reverse positions. The narrow central field is +occupied by a single acute triangle. In fig. <a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>b</i> we have a similar +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_172">[172]</span>arrangement, but in place of the rectangle with obtuse triangles, we +find a new arrangement of acute triangles. Fig. <a href="#fig_13_14">14</a> (p. 27) differs from +those just described in that the central field is divided into two +divisions instead of four. The obtuse triangles in the four corners +are treated somewhat differently and the figure between them in the +middle of the short side is treated as though the essential design +were the diamond, not the obtuse triangle. The heart shaped design +and the star like figures give the impression of a new development +of older patterns.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_146" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_189.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 146. Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In figures <a href="#fig_13_14">13</a>, <a href="#fig_15">15</a>, + <a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>a</i> and <a href="#fig_146">146</a> the rectangles are all placed in +the same direction; the long side parallel to the short side of the +hide. Fig. <a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>a</i> consists throughout of curved segments corresponding +to the obtuse triangles. At the apices of these segments the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_173">[173]</span>rectangles are divided by central lines. The fields separating the +rectangles bear each an acute triangle with prolonged apex. In the +narrow central field we find also the acute triangle with extending +lines. Fig. <a href="#fig_15">15</a> consists of the acute triangle with the usual frame +but with scolloped edges +instead of the angular +figures of fig. <a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>b</i>. The +central field is treated in +the same way as in fig. +<a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>a</i>. Fig. <a href="#fig_13_14">13</a> corresponds +nearly to fig. <a href="#fig_145">145</a> <i>a</i>, +except that the rectangular +fields are not divided by +a central line, but have a +central figure somewhat +hour-glass shaped enclosing +an acute triangle at +each end. The crosses +in the middle field are +also derived from the +acute triangles. The three +central fields of the long +side of fig. <a href="#fig_146">146</a> <i>b</i> correspond +to fig. <a href="#fig_144">144</a> <i>a</i>. Since +the rectangles in the +marginal field on the short side are not turned, the acute triangle +design did not fit and we find, therefore, instead the cross design. +The lack of symmetry between the extreme upper and lower fields +is quite unusual. In fig. <a href="#fig_146">146</a> <i>a</i> we find, as in fig. <a href="#fig_13_14">14</a>, only four fields. +The designs are similar in character to those of fig. <a href="#fig_146">146</a> <i>b</i>, except +that the acute triangle design is developed in a peculiar manner.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp65" id="fig_147" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_190.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 147. Painted rawhide, Ioway. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The Ojibwa and Ioway use another method of building up their +boxes. The short sides are made of separate flaps and there is no +flap covering the front. The bottom is not decorated and the hide +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_174">[174]</span>is folded over simply in box form and sewed together (fig. <a href="#fig_147">147</a>). +The method used by the Otoe and sometimes by the Ioway, is still +different. There is a short flap covering part of the front; the sides +are folded in, somewhat in the same manner as done by the Fox +and there is also a complete lack of coherence between the design as +laid out on the hide and as it appears in the completed box (fig. <a href="#fig_148">148</a>).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_148" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_191.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 148. Painted rawhides; <i>a</i>, Ioway; <i>b</i>, Otoe. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Still another example of fixity of type is presented in the woven +bags of the Ojibwa and Potawatomi (figs. <a href="#fig_149_150">149, + 150</a>). The two opposite +sides have always distinct patterns. The purely geometrical +patterns are always laid out symmetrically. There is a broad central +figure bordered by a number of narrow stripes. These are followed, +above and below by a wide stripe of a pattern different from the +central one. Sometimes the colors above and below are inverted. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_175">[175]</span>The dividing line runs all around the bag, but the patterns in the +broad bands change. On the one side there are often representative +figures above, and in this case there is no correspondence between +the upper and lower designs. Similar bags are used by other +neighboring tribes. The Potawatomi use the same decorative arrangements, +except that the central band often remains undecorated.<a id="FNanchor_96_96" href="#Footnote_96_96" class="fnanchor">[96]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_96_96" href="#FNanchor_96_96" class="label">[96]</a> See Alanson Skinner, The Mascontens or Prairie Potawatomi Indians, Bull. +Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Vol. 6, No. 2, Plate 21.</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_149_150" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_192.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd33">Fig. 149. Design from pouch, Ojibwa.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 150. Design from two sides of pouch, Potawatomi.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="fig_151a" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_193.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 151 <i>a</i>. Type of parfleche and + pouch painting, Arapaho. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_151bc" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_194.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 151 <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>. Types of parfleche and pouch painting, Shoshone. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>For a clear understanding of the character of a local style a comparison +with related forms in contiguous areas is indispensable. Historical +conditions like those that may be traced in the development +of art forms in prehistoric and historic times in Europe and in Asia +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_176">[176]</span>have been +determinants in forming the art of primitive people also. +There is probably not a single region in existence in which the art +style may be understood entirely as an inner growth and an expression +of cultural life of a single tribe. Wherever a sufficient amount +of material is available, we can trace the influence of neighboring +tribes upon one another, often extending over vast distances. +Dissemination +of cultural traits that has made the social structures, the +ceremonials and the tales of tribes what they are today, has also +been a most important element in +shaping the forms of their art. The +local distribution of technical processes, +of form elements, and of systems of +arrangement contribute to the character +of each art style. In another place +we have discussed the distribution of +pottery decorated by means of applied +pellets and fillets (see p. <a href="#Page_138">138</a>), and it +appeared that the technical process +covers a wide continuous area and that +it is applied in different ways by each +cultural group. We have also seen that +the characteristic triangular design with +enclosed rectangle, often with spur lines along the base, is widely disseminated +over the North American continent. We found that this form +is common to the Pueblos, the Indians of the northwestern plateaus +and of the plains, and that the fundamental pattern may be recognized +in New England and Labrador. Patterns composed of lines, +triangles and rectangles are characteristic of the art of the North +American Indian. Notwithstanding their simplicity, these forms are +practically confined to North America. Their strong individuality +proves that their present distribution must be due to mutual +influence among various North American cultures. We cannot +determine where the pattern originated but it is quite certain that +its present distribution is due to cultural contact; its occurrence is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_177">[177]</span>probably related to the + use of stiff rawhide for receptacles, to the +method of painting used by the Indians, and to the old method of +decorating with porcupine quill weaving and embroidery. I have called +attention to the difference in arrangement of these patterns among +a number of tribes and A. L. Kroeber, R. H. Lowie, and Leslie +Spier<a id="FNanchor_97_97" href="#Footnote_97_97" class="fnanchor">[97]</a> + have discussed these questions in greater detail (fig. <a href="#fig_151a">151</a>). +The parallel stripe arrangement is characteristic of the Arapaho; a +central field surrounded by a square, of the northern Shoshone. +Owing to the close contact in which these two tribes live at the +present time, which favors intertribal trade, the distribution is not +quite so clear as it has probably been in earlier times.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_97_97" href="#FNanchor_97_97" class="label">[97]</a> Leslie Spier, An Analysis of Plains Indian Parfleche Decoration, University of +Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. I, pp. 89 et seq. where the earlier +literature has been quoted.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_152" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_195.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 152. Arapaho designs. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_153" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_196.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 153. Sioux designs. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Certain differences may also be observed in the arrangement of +bead embroidery the forms of which are very uniform over an +extended area of the western prairies. A characteristic form of this +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_178">[178]</span>design consists of a central diamond or rectangle, from the corners +of which emanate lines that terminate in triangles facing the central +field either with the apex or with the base; sometimes a crossbar +with prongs is found at the end of these lines. Among the +Arapaho (fig. <a href="#fig_152">152</a>) these patterns appear singly on a plain background; +among the Sioux (fig. <a href="#fig_153">153</a>) the central square is seldom +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_179">[179]</span>used. While among the Arapaho the lines are usually attached to +only two opposite ends, the Sioux almost always attach them to the +four corners of the central diamond. Furthermore, the Sioux like +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_180">[180]</span>to vary the background by inserting stars or crosses and the design +seems to occur more frequently symmetrically doubled than among +the Arapaho.</p> + +<p>Another good example of differentiation in arrangement and +identity of pattern elements is presented by the basketry of the +Indians of British Columbia. Among the Thompson Indians the +design elements are distributed evenly over the whole side of the +basket; among the Lillooet they are confined to the upper part of +the side while the lower part remains undecorated; among the Chicotin +there are three bands of decoration along the upper part of +the basket (see p. <a href="#Page_297">297</a>).</p> + +<p>As another case of the wide distribution of a design element, +evidently due to diffusion, we may mention the so-called quail tip +ornament of California which consists of a right angle with a thin +upright stem and a short heavy horizontal arm. This pattern is +found commonly throughout California and extends northward as +far as the Sahaptin tribes of Columbia River. It is particularly +important to note that technically the basket of the Sahaptin tribes +belongs to the coiled and imbricated type used by the Thompson +Indians farther to the north; while in the southern regions a +multiplicity of methods of basket weaving are used. In all of these +the same quail tip occurs (see p. <a href="#Page_109">109</a>).</p> + +<p>We have spoken so far of local styles as though in every case +only a single style occurred in a tribal unit. This might seem +plausible on account of the comparative uniformity of tribal life. +Still there are many cases in which fundamentally different styles +may be observed in the same community. I have referred several +times to the realistic carving and drawing of the Eskimos, which is +often combined with very characteristic but subordinate geometrical +patterns, particularly with the double line with alternating spurs, a +series of “Y” shaped figures, arranged on a continuous line; and +circles and dots (see fig. <a href="#fig_78">78</a>, p. 86). In certain cases realistic forms +are used for the purpose of ornamentation. On some modern +specimens from the west coast of Hudson Bay, the representations +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_181">[181]</span>of human beings or animals are found (see fig. <a href="#fig_51">51</a> <i>b</i>, p. 58). In +Greenland wooden vessels are ornamented by attached ivory carvings +representing seals, which are nailed on to the surface (fig. <a href="#fig_121">121</a>, p. 127). +Pieces of skin in which needles are kept, are ornamented with +appliqué figures.<a id="FNanchor_98_98" href="#Footnote_98_98" class="fnanchor">[98]</a> On the east coast of Greenland similar decorative +motives are in use.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_98_98" href="#FNanchor_98_98" class="label">[98]</a> Kaj Birket-Smith, Ethnography of the Egedesminde District, Meddelelser om +Grønland, Vol. 66, (1924), pp. 522, 550.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The style of ornamenting cloth is quite different. There is no +realism and the formal patterns which are used are broad bands, accompanying +the borders of the garments and long lines of fringes. The +basis of this ornamentation is a feeling for color contrast and a +tendency to emphasize outlines. The representative tendency is +entirely absent. In a single specimen in which it appears as a +representation of a human hand, it looks strangely out of place.<a id="FNanchor_99_99" href="#Footnote_99_99" class="fnanchor">[99]</a> +This decorative type is fully developed in Greenland where checker +work is applied to garments, buckets, and also to wooden goggles.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_99_99" href="#FNanchor_99_99" class="label">[99]</a> Franz Boas, The Eskimo of Baffinland and Hudson Bay, Bulletin American +Museum of Natural History, Vol. 15, (1907), Plate 9.</p></div> +</div> +<p>I presume the principal cause for the difference of these styles is +found in the difference of the technical processes, but perhaps even +more in the circumstance that the realistic work is made by the +men, the clothing and sewed leather work by the women.</p> + +<p>Two fundamentally distinct styles occur also among the Indians +of the North Pacific coast. I have referred a number of times to +their symbolic representations of animals with the curious disregard +of natural relations between the parts of the body. This style of +art is confined primarily to woodwork and to other industries allied +to woodwork. It occurs also in appliqué and in embroidery in porcupine +quill,—probably copied from painted designs,—so that it is +practiced by both men and women. It is, however, entirely absent +in modern basketry made for home use, and in matting. The decorative +patterns in these types of technique are always geometrical +and bear no relation to the art of carving. Only in the woven +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_182">[182]</span>blankets of the Tlingit which are copied by the women from pattern +boards made by the men do we find the typical symbolic style.</p> + +<p>I might also refer to the contrast between the pictographic representations +of the Indians of the Plains and their ornamental art, if +it were not for the fact that their pictography never rises to the +dignity of an art.</p> + +<p>The cases might be considerably increased in which a difference +of style is found in different types of technique, or in different parts +of the population. Birchbark baskets of the interior of British +Columbia have their own style of border decoration and their sides +are often covered with pictographic designs. Coiled baskets from +the same district have geometrical surface patterns. Central American +painted pottery differs in style from other types in which painting +is not used, but in which plastic ornamentation is applied. New +Zealand borders of woven mattings have geometric style and lack +patterns that might be considered derived from the elaborate spiral +decoration that characterizes Maori carving (Plate <a href="#plate_VIII">VIII</a>).</p> + +<p>Such differences in style are, however, not by any means the +rule. As has been stated before, we find much more commonly +(p. 154) that the most highly developed art is liable to impose its +style upon other industries and that mat weaving and basketry have +been particularly influential in developing new forms and powerful +in imposing them upon other fields.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_VIII" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_200.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate VIII.</span></p> + + + Woven Blanket, New Zealand. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_183">[183]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="ART_OF_THE_NORTH_PACIFIC_COAST_OF_NORTH">ART OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH +AMERICA<a id="FNanchor_100_100" href="#Footnote_100_100" class="fnanchor">[100]</a> +</h2></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_100_100" href="#FNanchor_100_100" class="label">[100]</a> The present chapter is a revised edition of my essay, “The Decorative Art of +the Indians of the North Pacific Coast of America” (Bulletin American Museum of +Natural History, Vol. IX, pp. 123-176, 1897).</p></div> +</div> + +<p class="drop-cap">The general principles discussed in the preceding chapters, may +now be elucidated by a discussion of the style of the decorative +art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast of North America.</p> + +<p>Two styles may be distinguished: the man’s style expressed in the art +of wood carving and painting and their derivatives; and the woman’s +style which finds expression in weaving, basketry, and embroidery.</p> + +<p>The two styles are fundamentally distinct. The former is symbolic, +the latter formal. The symbolic art has a certain degree of +realism and is full of meaning. The formal art has, at most, pattern +names and no especially marked significance.</p> + +<p>We shall discuss the symbolic art first. Its essential characteristics +are an almost absolute disregard of the principles of perspective, +emphasis of significant symbols and an arrangement dictated by the +form of the decorative field.</p> + +<p>While the Eskimo of Arctic America, the Chukchee and Koryak +of Siberia, the Negroes and many other people use carvings in the +round which serve no practical ends, but are made for the sake of +representing a figure,—man, animal, or supernatural being,—almost +all the work of the Indian artist of the region that we are considering +serves at the same time a useful end. When making simple totemic +figures, the artist is free to shape his subjects without adapting them +to the forms of utensils, but owing to their large size, he is limited +by the cylindrical form of the trunk of the tree from which they +are carved. The native artist is almost always restrained by the +shape of the object to which the decoration is applied.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_154_155" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_203.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 154. Tlingit helmet.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 155. Mask representing dying warrior, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>The technical perfection of carvings and paintings, the exactness +and daring of composition and lines prove that realistic representations +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_184">[184]</span>are not beyond the powers of the artist. This may also be +demonstrated by a few exquisite examples of realistic carvings. The +helmet shown in fig. <a href="#fig_154_155">154</a> is decorated with the head of an old man +affected with partial paralysis. Undoubtedly this specimen must be +considered a portrait head. Nose, eyes, mouth and the general +expression, are highly characteristic. In a mask (fig. <a href="#fig_154_155">155</a>) representing +a dying warrior, the artist has shown faithfully the wide +lower jaw, the pentagonal face, and the strong nose of the Indian. +The relaxing muscles of mouth and tongue, the drooping eyelids, +and the motionless eyeballs, mark the agonies of death. Plate <a href="#plate_IX">IX</a> +represents a recent carving, a human figure of rare excellence. Posture +and drapery are free of all the formal characteristics of North West +coast style. Only the treatment of the eye and the facial painting +betray its ethnic origin. Here belongs also the realistic head previously +referred to, made by the Kwakiutl Indians of Vancouver Island (fig. <a href="#fig_156">156</a>), +which is used in a ceremony and intended to deceive the spectators +who are made to believe that it is the head of a decapitated dancer.<a id="FNanchor_101_100" href="#Footnote_101_100" class="fnanchor">[101]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_101_100" href="#FNanchor_101_100" class="label">[101]</a> The selection of North West Coast art given by Herbert Kühn (<span lang="de">Die Kunst der +Primitiven</span>, pp. 100, 104, Plates 48, 50, 51 are characteristic only of realistic representations. +Only Plates 47, 49 and part of 52 are stylistically typical).</p></div> +</div> +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="plate_IX" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_204.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate IX.</span></p> + + + Carved Figure, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_185">[185]</span></p> +<p>When the artist desires realistic truth he is quite able to attain it. This +is not often the case; generally the object of artistic work is decorative +and the representation follows the principles developed in decorative art.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_156" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_206.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 156. Carved head used in + ceremonial, Kwakiutl Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>When the form of the decorative field permits, the outline of the +animal form is retained. The size of the head is generally stressed +as against that of the body and +of the limbs. Eyes and eyebrows, +mouth and nose are given great +prominence. In almost all cases +the eyebrows have a standardized +form, analogous to that in which the +Indian likes to trim his own eyebrows,—with +a sharp edge on the +rim of the orbits, and a sharp angle +in the upper border, the brows being +widest at a point a little outward +from the center, tapering to the +outer and inner angles and ending +quite abruptly at both ends. The +eye is also standardized. In many +cases it consists of two outer curves +which indicate the borders of the +upper and lower eyelids. A large +inner circle represents the eyeball. +The lip lines are always distinct and border a mouth which is given +an extraordinary width. Generally the lips are opened wide enough +to show the teeth or the tongue. Cheeks and forehead are much +restricted in size. The trunk is not elaborated. The ears of animals +rise over the forehead (fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a>). These are almost always applied in +reproductions of mammals and birds, while they are generally missing in +those of the whale, killer-whale, shark and often also of the sculpin. +The human ear is represented in its characteristic form, on a level +with the eye (figs. <a href="#fig_207_208">207</a> and <a href="#fig_209_210">209</a>, pp. 217, 218). Whales and fish often +have round eyes, but exceptions occur (figs. <a href="#fig_233">233</a>, + <a href="#fig_234">234</a>, <a href="#fig_235_236">235</a>, pp. 229-231).</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_186">[186]</span></p> +<p>For clear presentation of the principles of this art it seems advantageous +to treat the symbolism and the adjustment of the animal form +to the decorative field before taking up the purely formal elements.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a> <i>a</i> is a figure from the model of a totem pole, which represents +the beaver. Its face is treated somewhat like a human +face, particularly the region around eyes and nose. The position of +the ears, however, indicates an animal head. The two large incisors +serve to identify the rodent par excellence,—the beaver. The tail +is turned up in front of the body. It is ornamented by cross-hatchings +which represent the scales on the beaver’s tail. In its +forepaws it holds a stick. The nose is short and forms a sharp +angle with the forehead. The nostrils are large and indicated by +spirals. The large incisors, the tail with cross-hatchings, the stick, +and the form of the nose are symbols of the beaver and the first +two of these are sufficient characteristics of the animal.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_157_158_159" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_207.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">Fig. 157. Carvings representing the beaver from models of Haida totem poles carved in slate.</td> +<td class="tdct wd40">Fig. 158. Carving from handle of spoon representing beaver, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdct wd25">Fig. 159. Headdress representing beaver; a dragon-fly is shown on the chest of the beaver, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_187">[187]</span></p> +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a> <i>b</i> is another representation of a beaver from the model +of a totem pole. It resembles the former one in all details, except +that the stick is missing. The beaver is merely holding its three-toed +forepaws raised to the chin. In other carvings the beaver is +shown with four or five toes, but the symbols described here +never vary.</p> + +<p>On the handle of a spoon (fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">158</a>), the head and forepaws of +the beaver are shown; and in its mouth are indicated an upper pair +of incisors, all the other teeth being omitted. The scaly tail is shown +on the back of the spoon. The nose differs from the one previously +described only in the absence of the spiral development of the nostril. +Its form and size agree with the preceding specimens.</p> + +<p>In the centre of the front of a dancing headdress (fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">159</a>), a +beaver is represented in squatting position. The symbols mentioned +before will be recognized here. The face is human, but the ears, +which rise over the forehead, indicate that an animal is meant. Two +large pairs of incisors occupy the center of the open mouth. The +tail, with cross-hatchings, is turned up in front of the body, and +appears between the two hind legs. The forepaws are raised to the +height of the mouth, but they do not hold a stick.<a id="FNanchor_102_101" href="#Footnote_102_101" class="fnanchor">[102]</a> The nose is +short, with large round nostrils and turns abruptly into the forehead. +On the chest of the beaver another head is represented over which +a number of small rings stretch upward. This animal represents the +dragon-fly, which is symbolized by a large head and a slender segmented +body.<a id="FNanchor_103_102" href="#Footnote_103_102" class="fnanchor">[103]</a> Its feet extend from the corners of its mouth towards +the haunches of the beaver. Its face resembles a human face; but +the two ears, which rise over the eyebrows, indicate that an animal +is meant. In many representations of the dragon-fly there are +two pairs of wings attached to the head. Combinations of two +animals similar to the present one are found frequently, as in +figs. <a href="#fig_164_167">165</a>, <a href="#fig_168_170">170</a> and <a href="#fig_235_236">235</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_102_101" href="#FNanchor_102_101" class="label">[102]</a> + For additional representations of the beaver see figs. <a href="#fig_215_216">216</a>, <a href="#fig_225">225</a>, +<a href="#fig_228_229">228, 229</a>, <a href="#fig_230">230</a>, +<a href="#fig_255">255</a>, <a href="#fig_283">283</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_103_102" href="#FNanchor_103_102" class="label">[103]</a> See p. <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</p></div> +</div><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_188">[188]</span></p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp65" id="fig_160" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_209_160.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 160. Painting for a house-front placed over the + door, representing the beaver, Kwakiutl Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a painting from a Kwakiutl house-front (fig. <a href="#fig_160">160</a>), which was +made for me by an Indian from Fort Rupert, the large head with +the incisors will be recognized. The scaly tail appears under the +mouth. The broken lines (1) around the eyes, indicate the hair of +the beaver. The design on each cheek (3) the bones of the face, +the high point of the nose (2) its sudden turn. The nostrils are +large and round as in the specimens described before. Under the +corners of the mouth are the feet. The meaning of the two ornaments +over the head is doubtful.</p> + + +<figure class="figright illowp45" id="fig_161_162" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_209_161-2.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 161. Halibut hook with + design representing a sculpin + swallowing a fish, Tlingit. +<br> + Fig. 162. Part of a totem pole + with design representing a + sculpin, Tsimshian. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A carved halibut hook (fig. <a href="#fig_161_162">161</a>) is decorated with the design of +the sculpin. The symbols of the fish are fins and tail, those of the +sculpin, two spines rising over its mouth, and a joined dorsal fin. +The sculpin is represented swallowing a fish, the tail of which protrudes +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_189">[189]</span>from its mouth. The two spines appear immediately over +the lips, their points being between the two eyes which are represented +by two circles with small projections. The two pectoral fins +are indicated over the eyes. The joined dorsal fin extends from the +eyes upward toward the narrowest part of the body. The tail of +the animal extends toward the place where point and shank of +the hook are bound together by means of a strip of spruce root.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_163" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_210.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 163. Woolen legging with appliqué + designs representing sculpin, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The same animal is represented +in a slightly different way +on the lower portion of a totem +pole (fig. <a href="#fig_161_162">162</a>). The lowest +figure is probably the sun, or +perhaps a starfish. Its arms +extend upward, and are held +in the mouth by a sculpin, +standing head downward, back +forward, and tail extending upward. +Two crescent-shaped +ornaments above the corners +of the mouth represent the gills +of the fish. Above these are +the pectoral fins. On the level of the pectoral fins towards the middle +appear the symbols of the sculpin, two spines, the lower portions of +which are decorated with small human faces. The round eyes are +placed just under the spines. The dorsal fin commences at the height +of the eyes, and merges into the tail which is clasped by a human +figure cut in two by the fish tail. This carving is also characterized +by two symbols,— —the two spines and the joined dorsal fin.</p> + +<p>On a legging made of blue cloth (fig. <a href="#fig_163">163</a>) the sculpin is shown +in red cloth appliqué. Its teeth, eyes, and dorsal fin are represented +by buttons of abalone shell. Two small triangles cut out to the right +and left of the mouth represent the gills. Immediately over the eyes, +and extending toward the middle of the back, are the two spines, +indicated by two slender triangular pieces of red cloth cut out in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_190">[190]</span>their middle parts. The pectoral fins are indicated by two broader +pieces of red cloth extending from the eyes outward and upward +toward the margin of the body of the fish, the dorsal fin by the long +slits along the back of the animal. The species is characterized by +the two spines which appear over the eyes.<a id="FNanchor_104_103" href="#Footnote_104_103" class="fnanchor">[104]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_104_103" href="#FNanchor_104_103" class="label">[104]</a> For additional + representations of the sculpin see figs. <a href="#fig_206">206</a>, <a href="#fig_219">219</a>, <a href="#fig_223_224">224</a>, <a href="#fig_261_262">262</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>In facial paintings the sculpin is generally indicated by the two +spines which are painted just over the lips (fig. <a href="#fig_164_167">164</a>).</p> + +<p>Figs. <a href="#fig_164_167">165</a>-<a href="#fig_168_170">168</a> represent the hawk which is symbolized by an +enormous hooked beak, curved backward so that its slender point +touches the chin. In many cases the face of the bird is that of a +human being, the nose being given the shape of the symbol of the +hawk. It is extended in the form of a beak, and drawn back into +the mouth, or merged into the face below the lower lip.</p> + +<p>On the headdress, fig. <a href="#fig_164_167">165</a>, the upper, larger face is that of the +hawk. The face in human; but the ears, which rise over the forehead, +indicate that an animal is meant. The body is small, and is +hidden behind the face of a sea-monster with bear’s head and flippers. +The wings of the hawk are grasped by the arms of the sea-monster +whose flippers may be seen over the arms.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_164_167">166</a> is the handle of a spoon on which is represented the +head of a hawk, symbolized by its beak. The top of the spoon +represents a man who is holding a small animal with a segmented +body, which may represent the dragon-fly, although the head seems +rather smaller than usual.<a id="FNanchor_105_104" href="#Footnote_105_104" class="fnanchor">[105]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_105_104" href="#FNanchor_105_104" class="label">[105]</a> See also figs. <a href="#fig_207_208">207</a>, <a href="#fig_242_243">243</a>, <a href="#fig_257">257</a>.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In figs. <a href="#fig_164_167">167</a> and <a href="#fig_168_170">168</a> the same symbols of the hawk will be recognized. +It is worth remarking that in most of these specimens +the mouth is entirely separated from the beak and has the form +of the toothed mouth of a mammal. A characteristic form of the +hawk’s beak is shown in the facial painting fig. <a href="#fig_168_170">169</a>.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_191">[191]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_164_167" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_212a.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 164. Facial painting representing the sculpin, Haida.<br> + Fig. 165. Headdress representing a hawk, Tsimshian.<br> + Fig. 166. Handle of a spoon made of mountain-goat horn; lowest figure representing + a hawk; upper figure representing a man holding a dragon-fly, probably Tsimshian. + <br> Fig. 167. Rattle with design of a hawk, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_168_170" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_212b.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 168. Dish made of horn of big-horn-sheep, Tlingit.<br> + Fig. 169. Facial painting representing hawk, Haida.<br> +Fig. 170. Headdress representing an eagle bearing a frog on its chest, Tsimshian. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_192">[192]</span></p> +<figure class="figleft illowp25" id="fig_171" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_213.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 171. Housepost + representing eagle + above, cormorant + below, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_168_170">170</a>, the front of a headdress representing the eagle, is quite +similar to the forms of preceding series; but it differs from them in +that the beak of the bird is not turned back so as to touch the face, +but ends in a sharp point extending downward, and that there is no +mammal mouth indicated. The wings of the eagle are shown extending +from the border of its body inward. The +shoulder joint is indicated by the head of a human +figure which is ornamentally carved on the wings. +The feet are seen at the sides of the lower border +of the carving, under the wings. On the body of +the eagle is a rather realistic carving of a toad. +An eagle is also shown on top of the Haida house +post (fig. <a href="#fig_171">171</a>). The wings are turned in in front +of the body and the curves of the lower figures +fit into the curved side.<a id="FNanchor_106_105" href="#Footnote_106_105" class="fnanchor">[106]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_106_105" href="#FNanchor_106_105" class="label">[106]</a> See also fig. <a href="#fig_215_216">215</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_172" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_214_172.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 172. Painting on paddle representing hawk, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In figs. <a href="#fig_172">172</a> and <a href="#fig_173">173</a> I give two representations +of the hawk (or fish hawk) made by the Kwakiutl. +The treatment is different from that of the Haida, +but the sharply curved beak is found here also. +On the paddle (fig. <a href="#fig_172">172</a>), (1) represents the eyebrow +and ear, (2) the cheek, (3) the wing, (4) the +beak. Fig. <a href="#fig_173">173</a> is taken from a painting on a settee. +On the back is shown a man with ears (4) over +the head, like those of the Haida animals. (1) is +the navel, (2) the wrinkles running down from the +nose to the corners of the mouth, (3) is painting +on the cheeks. The head of the hawk is placed +on each side of the human figure. On the lower +border of the settee is the lower jaw (5), over the +eyes the feathers on the head (6), the eye next +to the head on the side wing of the settee, is +the shoulder joint. The bone of the wing is +shown in (7), the long wing feather in (8), the +feathers of the body in (9).</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_193">[193]</span></p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_173" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_214_173.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 173. Painting on back and one end of a settee representing + man and hawk, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp35" id="fig_174" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_214_174.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 174. Handle of spoon of mountain-goat horn representing + dragon-fly. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_175" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_214_175.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 175. Berry spoon with engraving representing + dragon-fly. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The dragon-fly is represented with a large head, a long segmented +body and two pairs of wings. The representation on the headdress, +fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">159</a>, has been referred to before. The +head is human but provided with animal ears. +It has also been mentioned that the animal +with segmented body in fig. <a href="#fig_164_167">166</a> may be a +dragon-fly, although it is lacking the wings. +According to Edensaw, the spoon handle +(fig. <a href="#fig_174">174</a>) also represents the dragon-fly. It has +a strongly curved beak; wings are placed +under the lower jaw and the segmented body forms the tip of the +handle. A particularly good representation of a dragon-fly is found +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_194">[194]</span>on the Haida berry spoon<a id="FNanchor_107_106" href="#Footnote_107_106" class="fnanchor">[107]</a> (fig. <a href="#fig_175">175</a>). Attention should be called +to the spiral proboscis on this specimen.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_107_106" href="#FNanchor_107_106" class="label">[107]</a> These flat, wooden spoons are used for eating soapberries which are beaten to a foam.</p></div> +</div> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_176" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_216_176.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 176. <i>a</i>-<i>e</i> Carvings from handles of spoons of mountain-goat horn + representing killer-whale, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The most important characteristic of the killer-whale as represented +by the Haida is the long dorsal fin,—often with white circle or white +stripe in the middle, and a face or eye indicating a joint at the base. +The head is elongated, the mouth long and square in front. The +nostril is large, high, and at the same time elongated. The distance +from the mouth to the eyebrow is long and on totem poles and spoon +handles the head is always so placed that the long snout points +downward. When seen in profile the front of the face is square on +account of the forward extension of the nose over the front part of +the mouth. The eye is generally round but sometimes surrounded +by elongated lid lines with sharp inner and outer corners. Sometimes +the blow-hole is shown by a circular spot over the forehead. +In fig. <a href="#fig_176">176</a> are shown a few representations of the killer-whale as +found on handles of spoons made of mountain-goat horn. In (<i>a</i>) +and (<i>b</i>) the dorsal fin rises immediately over the head of the animal. +The inverted face in (<i>b</i>) probably represents the blow-hole. In (<i>a</i>) +and (<i>c</i>) the fins are folded forward; in the latter specimen the tail +is turned up in front on the body. On the rattle (fig. <a href="#fig_177_178">177</a>) the +characteristic large head with steep face appears. The mouth is set +with large teeth; the eye is round. In front of the dorsal fin is a +blow-hole. The Haida float (fig. <a href="#fig_177_178">178</a>) is abnormal in so far as it +has a very small dorsal fin (see also fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a> <i>d</i>).</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_177_178" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_216_177-178.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 177. Rattle representing killer-whale, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 178. Wooden float representing killer-whale, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_179" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_217_179.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 179. Masks and dishes representing the killer-whale, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_180_181" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_217_180-181.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 180. Helmet representing the killer-whale, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 181. Carvings from the handles of spoons of mountain-goat horn representing the bear.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A number of Kwakiutl masks and dishes representing the killer-whale +are shown in fig. <a href="#fig_179">179</a>. Although there are some differences +in the treatment of the animal, the main features are common to +both tribes. All these specimens, except <i>h</i>, have the dorsal fin; +the last named specimen shows the head only. The long, high nose +is found in all except in <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, <i>e</i>. The high, steep face is common to +all of them. Fig. <i>e</i>, a large house dish,<a id="FNanchor_108_107" href="#Footnote_108_107" class="fnanchor">[108]</a> is said to represent the +They are emblems of the family of the houseowner.] +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_195"></a><a id="Page_196"></a><a id="Page_197"></a>[197]</span>whale. It will be noticed that <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i> have round eyes while +in <i>a</i> and <i>h</i> the regular oblong eye is used. In <i>e</i> and <i>g</i> the +fundamental form of the eye is also round. Fig. <a href="#fig_180_181">180</a> is a +Tlingit helmet which is characterized as the killer-whale by +the large mouth set with teeth, the sudden turn of the nose +towards the forehead, the fin made of hide which rises over +the crown of the head, and the fin which is painted on the +left cheek. Ordinarily the killer-whale has no ears. In facial +painting red under and on the lower +jaw up to a line running from the +angle of the jaw to a point a little +below the lips, represents the throat +of the killer-whale.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_108_107" href="#FNanchor_108_107" class="label">[108]</a> These dishes are used in great feasts. Some of them are of enormous size.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The bear is symbolized by a large +mouth set with many teeth, often in +the act of swallowing some animal. +Very often the tongue protrudes. +The nostrils are high and round, +sometimes represented by spirals +(see also figs. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a>, <a href="#fig_175">175</a>). On totem +poles and carved spoon handles +they are similar to those of the +killer-whale but do not extend quite +so far backward. There is a sharp +turn in the profile from the nose to +the forehead. The paws are large +(fig. <a href="#fig_180_181">181</a>).</p> + + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_182" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_218.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 182. Berry spoons representing + bear; <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, Tsimshian; <i>c</i>, Tlingit; + <i>d</i>, representing killer-whale. + + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a> three berry spoons are +shown which, according to Charles +Edensaw, represent the bear. Fig. +<a href="#fig_182">182</a> <i>a</i> is quite clear. At the end of +the spoon is shown the head with an enormous ear (1), the size of +which is determined by the form of the spoon. Two teeth are +indicated by red curves (2). Under the mouth is a broad black +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_198">[198]</span>curve, the foreleg (3), and to the right of it (4) the fore-paw. The +lowest part represents the hindlegs. Fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a> <i>b</i> is not so clear. +The face in the middle is the hip joint, under it, to the right, the +thigh, to the left the paw with long claws. Edensaw considered the +design over the hip joint as the tail, the end as the head, but I +doubt the correctness of this interpretation. The end of the spoon +looks more like the head of a sea-monster and the design over the +hip joint like the fin. Fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a> <i>c</i> was also called a bear by the same +informant, while 182 <i>d</i> was called a killer-whale. I place these side +by side, because the formal agreement of the lower part is striking. +The right half of the base of 182 <i>c</i> has the characteristic form of the +dorsal fin of the killer-whale and corresponds to an analagous design +in fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a> <i>d</i>. In both cases the inverted eye above the “fin” would +be the joint. The rest of the design consists of eye and flipper +elements that are not readily recognized. In 182 <i>d</i> the flat curves in the +middle may be the body; in front to the left the fin, and over it eye and +mouth. In 182 <i>c</i> the elements are still less clear. According to +Edensaw there is no head, only a tail at the upper end of the spoon.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_183" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_220_183.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +Fig. 183. Carving representing a sea-monster, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p>There are quite a number of representations of the sea-monster, +the form of which is partly that of a bear and partly that of a +killer-whale. In a number of cases the monster has a bear’s head +(fig. <a href="#fig_183">183</a>) and body, but fins are attached to the elbows. In other +cases the head is that of a killer-whale and the body that of a bear. +In this form it appears on many horn spoon handles (fig. <a href="#fig_184">184</a>). In +still other cases the characteristics of bear and killer-whale are intermingled +in other ways.</p> + +<p>The frog is characterized by a wide toothless mouth, a flat nose, +and lack of a tail.</p> +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_184" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_220_184.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption>Fig. 184. Carvings from handles of spoons made of +mountain-goat horn representing a sea-monster. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p>The following series (figs. <a href="#fig_185_186">185</a>-<a href="#fig_187_188">188</a>) are representations of the +dogfish or shark. When the whole body of this animal is represented, +it is characterized by a heterocerc tail, a large mouth, the corners of +which are drawn downward, a series of curved lines on each cheek which +represent the gills, and a high tapering forehead imitating the inferior +position of the mouth. It is often decorated with two circles (the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_199">[199]</span>nostrils), and a series of curved lines (wrinkles) similar to the gill +lines on the cheeks.</p> + + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_185_186" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_220_185_186.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 185. Part of totem pole carved in slate representing shark +<ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: sourmounted" id="sourmounted">surmounted</ins> +by an eagle, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 186. Handle of a dagger representing the head of a shark, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_185_186">185</a> represents a shark devouring a halibut, from the upper +part of a totem pole. The head has the characteristic symbols, to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_200">[200]</span>which are added here the numerous sharp teeth that are found +often, but not regularly, as symbols of the shark. The greater part +of the body has been omitted, since the animal is sufficiently identified +by the symbols found on the head; but under the chin will +be noticed the two pectoral fins which identify it as a fish.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_185_186">186</a> is the handle of a copper dagger on which the mouth +with depressed corners, the curved lines on the cheeks, and the +ornament rising over the forehead, characterize the shark.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_187_188" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_221.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd50">Fig. 187. Wooden pipe representing a shark, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 188. Tattooing representing a shark, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A small pipe (fig. <a href="#fig_187_188">187</a>) has the form of a shark. The square end +at the right hand side is the face of the animal (fig. <a href="#fig_187_188">187</a>). Eyes +and mouth are inlaid with abalone shell. On account of the narrowness +of the face, the three curved lines generally found on the cheeks +are placed under the mouth. The forehead has the characteristic +high form described before. The opposite end of the pipe shows +the tail turned upward. On the sides are carved the pectoral fins, +which extend over the body of the pipe.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_187_188">188</a> is a copy of a tattooing on the back of a Haida woman. +Here we have only the outline of the head of a shark, again characterized +by the peculiar, high forehead, the depressed corners of +the mouth, and curved lines on each cheek.</p> + +<p>The shark<a id="FNanchor_109_108" href="#Footnote_109_108" class="fnanchor">[109]</a> (or dogfish) is found frequently on Haida carvings +and paintings. It is rare among the southern tribes.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_109_108" href="#FNanchor_109_108" class="label">[109]</a> + See also figs. <a href="#fig_212_213">213</a>, <a href="#fig_214">214</a>, <a href="#fig_217">217</a>, <a href="#fig_232">232</a>, <a href="#fig_233">233</a>, <a href="#fig_261_262">261</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_201">[201]</span></p> +<p>The ts’um’os, the personified snag, is represented in a form similar +to the bear. According to Edensaw the form of the head +is analogous to that of the bear but the corners of the mouth are +drawn down like those of the dog-fish (fig. <a href="#fig_189_190">189</a>). This is contradicted +by the representation of a third snag monster, in which +the mouth is square like that of the bear. The region behind the +mouth has, however, the characteristic curvature demanded by Edensaw. +The fins of this being correspond to the concept of the sea-monster.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_189_190" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_222.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd50">Fig. 189. Handles of spoons representing sea-monster, Haida. </td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 190. Handles of spoons made of mountain-goat representing snail, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_189_190">190</a> are represented two spoon handles, representing, according +to Edensaw, the snail. The characteristic feature seems to +be the long snout with its sudden, angular turn. The conventional +concept of the animal form with eye and nose is strikingly brought +out in this instance.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_202">[202]</span></p> +<p>Let us briefly recapitulate what we have thus far tried to show. +Animals are characterized by their symbols, and the following +series of symbols has been described in the preceding remarks:</p> + +<p>1. Of the <i>beaver</i>: large incisors; large, round nose; scaly tail; and +a stick held in the fore paws.</p> + +<p>2. Of the <i>sculpin</i>: two spines rising over the mouth, and a continuous +dorsal fin.</p> + +<p>3. Of the <i>hawk</i>: large, curved beak the point of which is turned +backward so that it touches the face.</p> + +<p>4. Of the <i>eagle</i>: large, curved beak, the point of which is turned +downward.</p> + +<p>5. Of the <i>killer-whale</i>: large, long head; elongated large nostrils; +round eye; large mouth set with teeth; blow-hole; and large dorsal fin.</p> + +<p>6. Of the <i>shark</i> or <i>dogfish</i>: an elongated rounded cone rising +over the forehead; mouth with depressed corners; a series of curved +lines on the cheeks representing gills; two circles and curved lines +on the ornament rising over the forehead representing nostrils and +wrinkles; round eyes; numerous sharp teeth; and heterocerc tail.</p> + +<p>7. Of the <i>bear</i>: large paws; and large mouth set with teeth; protruding +tongue; large, round nose; and sudden turn from snout to forehead.</p> + +<p>8. Of the <i>sea-monster</i>: bear’s head; bear’s paws with flippers attached; +and gills and body of the killer-whale, with several dorsal +fins; or other mixtures of bear and killer-whale type.</p> + +<p>9. Of the <i>dragon-fly</i>: large head; segmented, slender body; and wings.</p> + +<p>10. Of the <i>frog</i>: wide, toothless mouth; flat nose; and lack of tail.</p> + +<p>11. Of the personified <i>snag</i>: like a bear with mouth depressed at +the corners like that of the dogfish.</p> + +<p>12. Of the <i>snail</i>: long snout with sudden downward turn.<a id="FNanchor_110_109" href="#Footnote_110_109" class="fnanchor">[110]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_110_109" href="#FNanchor_110_109" class="label">[110]</a> See also characterization of wolf, p. 207.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>I have had occasion to examine the Kwakiutl in greater detail in +regard to the symbols used in designating certain animals. One +artist gave me a series of eye patterns together with the adjoining +parts of the face and explained in what way each is characteristic +of the animal in question. These are shown in figs. <a href="#fig_191">191</a> and <a href="#fig_192">192</a>.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_203">[203]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_191" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_224.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 191. Types of eyes of various animals, Kwakiutl; <span class="nowrap"><i>a</i>, sea bear;</span> +<span class="nowrap"><i>b</i>, grizzly bear;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>c</i>, beaver;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>d</i>, wolf;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>e</i>, eagle;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>f</i> raven;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>g</i>, killer-whale.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The grizzly bear of the sea (<i>a</i>) has a large eye, the form of which +is not definitely determined, a very large, round nostril, large teeth +and a large ear. The grizzly bear (<i>b</i>) has a round eye with white +rim, smaller than that of the grizzly bear of the sea. The nose is +not round, but high, the teeth large but smaller than those of the +grizzly bear of the sea. The ear is small and pointed. The beaver (<i>c</i>) +has, besides the large incisors, a high, round nose and a very small +ear. The wolf (<i>d</i>) has a slanting, long eye; the ear is laid down +backward; he has many teeth. The eye of the eagle (<i>e</i>) has a white +crescent behind the eyeball, the nostril is slanting and placed high +up on the beak. The eye of the raven (<i>f</i>) is white in the center. +The killer-whale (<i>g</i>) has a very large eyebrow, a long eye and face, long +nose and a long mouth with many teeth. The whale (fig. <a href="#fig_192">192</a> <i>a</i>) +has a round eye and nose. The sea lion (<i>b</i>) has a round nose, +large teeth, the eye near to the nose and a small ear. The frog (<i>c</i>) +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_204">[204]</span>has an elongated eye, flat mouth and flat nose. The fabulous double-headed +serpent (<i>d</i>) has a small eye like that of the wolf, a spiral +nose and a spiral plume. The eyes of a man, of the woodman, and +of the seaspirit who gives wealth, are shown in <i>e</i>, <i>f</i>, and <i>g</i>.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_192" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_225.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 192. Types of eyes of various <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: brings" id="brings">beings</ins>, Kwakiutl, +<span class="nowrap"> <i>a</i>, whale;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>b</i>, sea lion;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>c</i>, frog;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>d</i>, double-headed serpent;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>e</i>, man;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>f</i> merman;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>g</i>, spirit of the sea.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_193" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_226_193.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 193. Styles of tails, Kwakiutl; above bird; + below sea mammals. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The Kwakiutl also claim as the standard for the bird’s tail, a +joint with a single eye, although sometimes there may be two eyeballs +enclosed in one eye. The rounded feathers (fig. <a href="#fig_193">193</a>) are also +characteristics of the bird’s tail. The tail of the whale, killer-whale, +and porpoise, on the other hand, has two joints and the flukes +have double curvatures on the inner side.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_194" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_226_194.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 194. Styles of wing designs and of fin + designs, Kwakiutl; above, fin; below, wing. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>The Kwakiutl also claim a definite distinction between the designs +representing wing feathers and those representing fins, (fig. <a href="#fig_194">194</a>). +The wing feathers should be pointed; the fin, on the other hand, +has no point and is cut off square.</p> + +<p>In figs. <a href="#fig_195">195</a> and <a href="#fig_196">196</a> are represented the characteristic elements +of the halibut and of the wolf. These elements are supposed to be +used by the Kwakiutl in the representation of these animals, selected +according to the requirements of the decorative field. In the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_205">[205]</span>figures here reproduced +they are given without +any reference to the decorative +field. Fig. <a href="#fig_195">195</a> +represents the halibut; +(1) the mouth and over +it the nose, (2) the eyes, +(3) the bone of the top +of the head and (4) the +side of the head. In (5) +are shown the gills; (6) +and (8) represent the +intestinal tract, and (7) is +the part of the intestinal +tract just under the neck; +(9) is the collar bone, +(10) the lateral fin, the +bones of which are shown +in (11). (12) is the clotted +blood that is found +in the dead halibut under +the vertebral column; (13) +represents the joint of the +tail, (14) part of the bone +in the tail, and (15) the +tip of the tail.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_195" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_227_195.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 195. Elements used in representing the halibut, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_196" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_227_196.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 196. Elements used in representing the wolf, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_196">196</a> represents, in +the same way, the wolf. +The head with the elevated +nose is easily recognized. +(1) represents the throat. +(2) The humerus connected +with the forearm +is shown in the lower +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_206"></a><a id="Page_207"></a>[207]</span>left hand side of the pattern; (3) represents the collarbone, the four +circles (4) the backbone, (5) the back with hair. The three thin +slanting lines (6) are the ribs, (7) the sternum and the hooks over +it the intestinal tract, (9) is the hind leg, corresponding to (2), +(10) the toes, (11) the foot, (12) connects the backbone with the tail. +The thin lines (13) represent the hair of the tail, (14) is supposed to +be a second joint in the tail, (15) the hairy tail, and (16) the ears.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_197" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_228.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 197. Painting from bow of a canoe, + representing the wolf. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_197">197</a> represents the wolf, a painting from the bow of a canoe. +Here again the elevated +nose of the wolf will be +recognized. The hachure (1) +represents the pelvis, (2) and +(3) the intestinal tract, (4) +the humerus, (5) the cheek, +(6) the facial bones, and +(7) the ear.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_198" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_229.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 198. Masks and dishes representing the wolf, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>An examination of carved +and painted specimens shows +clearly that this description +of symbols is theoretical +rather than rigidly normative, +for in many cases considerable freedom in their use +may be observed. An example of this kind is presented by the +wolf masks used by the Kwakiutl in the dance “Brought-Down-From-Above”<a id="FNanchor_111_110" href="#Footnote_111_110" class="fnanchor">[111]</a> +(fig. <a href="#fig_198">198</a>). Most of these have the slanting eye +and pointed ears. In one specimen, however, the ear is pointed +forward. The snout slants backward, the nose is high. The identity +of treatment of the specimen shown in figs. <i>d</i> and <i>f</i> is interesting. +The former was collected by Captain Adrian Jacobsen, +1884, and the latter by Captain Cook more than a hundred years +earlier. The double mask, fig. <i>a</i>, resembles them in general shape, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_208"></a><a id="Page_209"></a>[209]</span>but the eye is treated quite differently and the +ear, while narrow, is not pointed and the backward +slant of the snout is not sufficiently +pronounced. The double-headed wolf dish (<i>e</i>), +has small reclining ears and long eyes. The +ears of figs. <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, <i>e</i>, are small and recline, +but the eye of <i>c</i> and <i>d</i> is rounded.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_111_110" href="#FNanchor_111_110" class="label">[111]</a> See Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, Annual +Report of the United States National Museum, 1895, p. 477, illustrations +p. 493, Plate 37.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>The forms of animals used by the northern +tribes vary considerably also. It is not safe +to base our arguments on models or on objects +made for the trade. I shall use, therefore, +exclusively, older specimens which have been +in use.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp25" id="fig_199" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_230.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 199. House post, + Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>Swanton<a id="FNanchor_112_111" href="#Footnote_112_111" class="fnanchor">[112]</a> gives two interpretations of the +Haida house post fig. <a href="#fig_199">199</a>. He had two informants; +both explained the top figure as an +eagle but they differed as to the meaning of +the rest. The one claimed that the lower part +of the pole represented the story of a woman +being carried away by a killer-whale. The +woman’s face shows just below the eagle’s +beak, and the whale’s blow-hole is represented +by a small face above the face of the killer-whale. +The second informant, however, explained +the large face at the bottom as that +of a grizzly bear, presumably meaning thereby, +the sea grizzly bear; and the small figure +over it as the “sea ghost” which usually +rides upon its back. The woman’s face he left +unexplained. From an objective point of view, +the face at the base of the pole appears as a +grizzly bear’s face. Attached to it on each side +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_210"></a><a id="Page_211"></a><a id="Page_212"></a>[212]</span>are the ears and above these, the flippers. Just under the talons of the +eagle is found the inverted tail of a fish or aquatic mammal, which +presumably belongs to the figure at the bottom, although it seems +rather small. It seems doubtful whether the upper face, to which +belong the two hands just under it and the legs, in squatting position +below the tail, is that of a woman because there ought to be +a large labret in the lower lip. Furthermore, the face has animal +ears so that it does not seem likely that the intention of the artist +was to represent a woman.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_112_111" href="#FNanchor_112_111" class="label">[112]</a> John R. Swanton, The Haida, Publications of the +Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. V, p. 128.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>It is true that in some other cases in which this same story is +represented,<a id="FNanchor_113_112" href="#Footnote_113_112" class="fnanchor">[113]</a> the person sitting on the back of the killer-whale has +no labret, while in other cases it is shown. Obviously in this case +the symbolism is not clear enough to enable an Indian who does +not know the artist or who does not know the meaning of the +carving, to interpret it correctly.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_113_112" href="#FNanchor_113_112" class="label">[113]</a> See Swanton, The Haida, pl. 15, fig. 1, where the woman is shown without +labret while in the specimen pl. 14, fig. 5, she wears a large labret.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_200" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_231.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 200. Designs from a set of gambling sticks. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_201" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_232.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 201. Designs from a set of gambling sticks. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The uncertainty of interpretation becomes the greater the more +fragmentary the figure. A set of gambling sticks which in 1897 I +submitted to the best carver and painter (Charles Edensaw) among +the Haida, could not be satisfactorily interpreted by him (figs. <a href="#fig_200">200</a>, +<a href="#fig_201">201</a>). For example: Number 35 he recognized as a series of three +dorsal fins without being able to tell to what animal they belonged. +Number 36 he explained as a shoulder on the right, and a tail on +the left, but he was unable to identify the particular animal. Number +37 he explained, hesitatingly, as a mosquito. For the following +group he felt quite unable to give any satisfactory explanation.</p> + +<p>The uncertainty of explanation appears particularly clearly in the +interpretation of Chilkat blankets. I give here a few examples according +to Lieutenant George T. Emmons.<a id="FNanchor_114_113" href="#Footnote_114_113" class="fnanchor">[114]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_114_113" href="#FNanchor_114_113" class="label">[114]</a> George T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, Memoirs of the American Museum +of Natural History, Vol. 3. Part 4, N. Y. 1907, pp. 352, 369, 372, 377, and 387.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_202" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_234_202.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 202. Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The blanket shown in fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> represents a bear with young. +The large central figure represents the male bear; the two inverted +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_213">[213]</span>eyes in the middle of the lower border, with the adjoining +elongated designs with round tips, the hind quarters of the bear +and the legs; the three heads in the middle of the upper margin, +the female and the young bears. The central head in the middle +of the upper margin was +also explained as the +forehead of the bear. +The lateral panels represent +each a young +bear. The design along +the lower border of the +lateral panel is the freshwater +stream on which +the bear lives. According +to John R. Swanton +the blanket represents +the sea grizzly bear. The +explanation of the principal +parts is the same +as that given by Lieutenant +Emmons, except +that the three heads in +the middle along the +upper border were explained, +the middle one +as the top of the head, the lateral ones as ears. The wing designs +which extend sideways from the border, cutting into the middle +parts of the lateral panels, were explained as part of the forelegs, +representing, probably, the fins which are believed to be attached +to the arms of the sea grizzly bear. The two inverted eyes in the +lower border, with the ornaments attached to the right and left of +the eyes, were said to represent the hind legs.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_203" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_234_203.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 203. Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The blanket shown in figure <a href="#fig_203">203</a> represents, according to Emmons, +a female wolf and young. The body of the wolf is given the form +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_214">[214]</span>of a hawk; the two eyes and the wing designs between them, near +the lower border of the blanket, being the face of the hawk. The +double feather design over these eyes represents the hawk’s ears. +The face in the center of the lower border of the blanket represents +the body, the wing feather designs extending downward under +the corners of the jaws of the wolf, the wings of the hawk. In the +lateral panels the young wolf is shown sitting up. These designs +represent probably at the same time, the sides and back of the +wolf’s body. According +to Swanton the blanket +represents a young raven. +The body of the raven is +occupied by two profiles +of ravens, represented +by the two large eyes +near the lower border +of the blanket. The face +in the centre of the lower +border is the raven’s +tail. The lateral wing designs extending downward from under the +corners of the jaws of the large head, are the wings of the raven. +The lateral panels represent two young ravens in profile.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_204" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_235.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 204. Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The blanket shown in fig. <a href="#fig_204">204</a> shows, according to Emmons, +on top, a brown bear sitting up. On the body of the bear is a +raven’s head. The hind-quarters are treated like a whale’s head. +The eyes being at the same time the hip joints, the mouth the feet +of the bear. He was given another explanation: the principal +figure being explained as a whale, the head of which is below. The +body, which is turned up, is treated as a raven’s head, and the tail +as a bear’s head. The side panels are the sides and the back of +these animals, but represent at the same time, an eagle in profile +on top, and a raven in profile below. According to Swanton the +design represents a halibut. The head is below. The whole large +middle face represents the body; and the large face nearer the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_215">[215]</span>upper border, the tail. The wing designs in the lateral panels, +next to the lowest head, are the small pectoral fins and the rest of +the lateral fields, the continuous border fin.</p> + +<p>The blanket in Fig. <a href="#fig_103">103</a> (p. 108) represents, according to Emmons, +a diving whale and the lateral fields a raven sitting. The head, +with nostrils and mouth, is shown below. The central face represents +the body. The eyes near the upper border are the flukes of the +tail. The face designs at the sides of the body represent the fins. +In the lateral panels is +shown a raven sitting. +According to Swanton the +same blanket represents +a wolf with young. The +head is shown below. +The hind legs and hip joints +are represented by +two large eyes and the +adjoining ornaments along +the upper border, the two +dark segments just over the eye, being the feet. The face in the +middle of the design represents, as usual, the body of the animal. +The small eye design, with adjoining ear and wing feather designs, +in the middle on each side of the body, are interpreted as foreleg +and foot. The lateral panels are explained as representing each a +young wolf sitting.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_205" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_236.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 205. Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are also considerable discrepancies in the explanation of +the blanket shown in fig. <a href="#fig_205">205</a>. According to Emmons it represents +a killer-whale. In each lower corner is one half of the head with +teeth; right in front of the teeth, the nostril; between the two halves +of the head, in the lower border of the blanket, the tail. The +inverted face in the middle of the upper border, represents the body. +The large square designs containing the goggle design, on each side, +are interpreted as water blown out from the blow-hole. One half +of the dorsal fin is indicated by a small round wing feather design +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_216">[216]</span>in each upper corner, the human face in profile under it, representing +one half of the blow-hole. According to Swanton a spirit +of the sea is represented. One half of the head is shown in each +lower corner, the eye design in front of the tongue +being interpreted as chin. The two faces in the middle +of the lower border are explained as the young ones +of this sea spirit; the flicker-feather designs over +them, as the inner part of the body of the old animal; +the inverted large face in the middle of the upper +border, as its hat; the large square designs on each +side of this face, containing the goggle designs, as +the dorsal fin; the two human faces in profile near +the upper corners, the young ones whose bodies are +shown by the round feather design over the face. +Still another explanation of the same pattern was +given to me. In each lower corner is shown one +half of the head of a killer-whale. Its food is represented +by the eye design in front of the mouth. +The tail is below in the middle; the two halves of +the dorsal fin are just over the tail; the inverted face +in the middle of the upper border is the chest; the +adjoining square designs and the attached round feather +design are the flippers. Accordingly the profile faces +near the upper, outer corners should be the blow-holes.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp25" id="fig_206" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_237.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 206. Model + of totem pole with + three figures representing, + from + below upward; + sculpin, dog-fish, + and sea-monster; + Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>These examples show clearly that there is ample +room for the fancy of the interpreter. The symbols +lend themselves to various explanations, which are +presumably selected in accordance with totemic affiliations +of the owner. Not all of them seem quite +consistent with the best northwest coast usage; for +instance, Swanton’s explanation of the last named +blanket seems doubtful on account of the inverted position of +the hat and the explanation of a single wing design as a body.</p> + +<p>So far I have considered the symbols only in connection with +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_217">[217]</span>their use in representing various animals. It now becomes necessary +to inquire in what manner they are used to identify the +animals. We have seen that in a number of the preceding cases +entire animals were represented, and that they were identified by +means of these symbols. However, the artist is allowed wide latitude +in the selection of the form of the animal. Whatever its form +may be, as long as the recognized symbols are present, its identity +is established. We have +mentioned before that +the symbols are often +applied to human faces, +while the body of the +figure has the characteristics +of the animal.</p> + +<p>We find this principle +applied on the totem +pole, fig. <a href="#fig_206">206</a>. Each of the +three animals represented +has a human face, to +which are added characteristic +symbols. In the +top figure the ears indicate an animal; the arms, to which flippers are +attached, the sea-monster (see fig. <a href="#fig_183">183</a>). The next figure below represents +the shark. Originally a large lip with a labret was attached +to it. This would indicate that a female shark is represented. Its +symbols are the peculiar high snout which rises over its forehead, and +the fins, which are placed under the chin. The body of the lowest +figure which is shown under the face represents a fish; and the +two large spines which rise over the eyebrows specify the sculpin.</p> + +<p>In many cases the bodies of the animals are not represented and +the essential symbols are applied to a purely human face. This +style is found on masks and in facial paintings.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_207_208" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_238.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 207. Mask representing the hawk, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 208. Mask with painting symbolizing the flicker, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_207_208">207</a> has a human face with human ears. Only the nose +indicates that the mask is not intended to represent a human being. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_218">[218]</span>It is strongly curved, and drawn back into the mouth, thus symbolizing +the hawk.</p> + + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_207_208">208</a> we see the face of a woman with a moderately large +labret. The ears, as explained before, are those of an animal. The +nose, which has been lost, had undoubtedly the form of a bird’s +beak. Thus the face was characterized as that of a bird. It was +specified partly by the +form of the beak, but +principally by the ornaments +painted in red and +black on the cheeks and +forehead. These represent +the feathers of the +red-winged flicker.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_209_210" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_239.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 209. Mask with eyebrows symbolizing the squid, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 210. Mask with painting symbolizing the killer-whale, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A small mask representing +a human face +(fig. <a href="#fig_209_210">209</a>) has, in place +of the eyebrows, two +rows of circles, the sucking-cups +of the squid. +By means of this symbol +the face is recognized as that of the squid.</p> + + +<p>In the same manner the mask fig. <a href="#fig_209_210">210</a> is identified as the killer-whale +by the two black ornaments painted on the left cheek and extending +down to the chin. They represent the dorsal fin of the killer-whale.</p> + +<p>These symbols are also used as facial paintings and body paintings +by dancers, who are thus recognized as personifying the animal +in question, or as belonging to the social group with which the +animals are associated (see figs. <a href="#fig_264">264</a>, <a href="#fig_265">265</a>, pp. 250, 251). Sometimes +these symbols are attached to the garments. To this class belongs +the ornament (fig. <a href="#fig_212_213">212</a>), which represents the dorsal fin of a killer-whale +and which is worn attached to the back part of the blanket.</p> + +<p>Having thus become acquainted with a few of the symbols of +animals, we will next investigate in what manner the native artist +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_219">[219]</span>adapts the animal form to the object he intends to decorate. First +of all, we will direct our attention to a series of specimens which +show that he endeavors, whenever possible, to represent the whole +animal on the object that +he desires to decorate.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp70" id="fig_211" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_240_211.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 211. Wood carving representing the killer-whale, + Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_211">211</a> is a club used +for killing seals and halibut +before they are landed in +the canoe. The carving +represents the killer-whale. The dorsal fin, the principal symbol of +the killer-whale, cannot be omitted. If placed in an upright position +on the club, the implement would assume an awkward shape. Therefore +the artist bent it down along the side of the body, so that it +covers the flipper. The tail of the whale would have interfered with +the handle, and has been turned forward +and lies flat over the back.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_212_213" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_240_212_213.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 212. Wood carving representing dorsal fin of the killer-whale, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 213. Model of a totem pole representing a shark, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The distortion of the body has been +carried still further in the handle of a +spoon (fig. <a href="#fig_176">176</a> <i>a</i>, p. 195) which represents +the same animal. The large +head of the whale, to which the flippers +are attached is near the bowl of the +spoon. The body has been twisted backward +so that it is completely doubled up. +Therefore, the surface pattern of the tail +is carved on the back of the spoon, and +the two projections just below the mouth +are the two tips of the whale’s tail. The +dorsal fin extends upward from the head +of the whale, between the legs of the +man who forms the tip of the handle.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp15" id="fig_214" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_241.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 214. + + Speaker’s staff + representing a + shark, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_212_213">213</a> is a small totem pole representing the shark. The tip +of its tail forms the top of the pole, while the face is placed at +its lower end. Since most of the symbols of the shark are found +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_220">[220]</span>on its face, it was necessary to bring the face into such a position +as to be seen in front view, but the artist also desired to show the +back of the fish. For this reason the head has been +twisted around entirely, so that it appears in front view +over the back of the fish. The flippers are made visible +by having been pushed backward far beyond the place +to which they properly belong.</p> + +<p>The speaker’s staff (fig. <a href="#fig_214">214</a>), which also represents +the shark, has been distorted in the same manner; but +here the head has been turned round entirely, so that it +faces the back of the fish. The pectoral fins are shown +below the chin.</p> + +<p>On the berry spoon (fig. <a href="#fig_215_216">215</a>) is an eagle whose head +which is turned back completely. The small wing occupies +the field under the head. The upper margin with +geometrical decoration represents the body under which +the hip joint, leg and feet are shown.</p> + +<p>The changes of position and of the relative sizes of +parts of the body, which result from such adaptations +to the form of the object to be decorated, are still more +far-reaching in the following specimens.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_215_216" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_242_215_216.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 215. Berry Spoon with design representing the eagle.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 216. Halibut hook representing a beaver, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>On a halibut hook (fig. <a href="#fig_215_216">216</a>) carved with a design of +the beaver, the two incisors, the symbols of the beaver, +have been moved to the same side of the mouth. In +reality only one of the incisors is visible in profile, but +being important symbols, both are shown.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_217" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_242_217.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 217. Part of totem pole representing a shark, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_217">217</a> is a shark represented on the top of a totem +pole. The head of the animal is shown in the form of +a human face with the characteristic symbols. Under the +chin are two flippers. The body must be considered +turned upward; but it has been shortened so much that +only the tail remains, which rises immediately above the face.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp40" id="fig_218" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_242_218.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 218. Dancing-hat representing a killer-whale, Tsimshian. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>On a wooden dancing-hat (fig. <a href="#fig_218">218</a>) the symbols of the killer-whale +are attached to its head. Since the whole body has been +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_221">[221]</span>omitted, the dorsal fin, the essential symbol, has been moved from +the back to the head, and the flippers are attached to the head +behind the eyebrows.</p> + +<p>In all these cases the artist has taken great liberties with the form +of the animal body, and has treated it so that the symbols become +clearly visible. On the whole, he endeavors to represent the whole +animal. When this is not possible, all its essential parts are shown. +The insignificant parts are often omitted.</p> + +<p>Far-reaching distortions result from the adjustment of the animal body +to the decorative field and from the necessity of preserving its symbols.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_219" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_242_219.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 219. Wooden hat with carving representing the sculpin. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_219">219</a> is the top view of a wooden hat on which is carved the +figure of a sculpin. The animal is shown in top view, as though +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_222">[222]</span>it were lying with its lower side on the hat. The dancing-hats of +these Indians have the forms of truncated cones. To the top are +attached a series of rings, mostly made of basketry, which indicate +the social rank of the owner, each ring symbolizing a step in the +social ladder. The top of the hat, therefore, does not belong to the +decorative field, which is confined to the surface of the cone. The +artist found it necessary, therefore, to open the back of the sculpin +far enough to make room for the gap in the decorative field. He +has done so by representing the animal as seen from the top, but +split and distended in the +middle, so that the top of +the hat is located in the +opening thus secured.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_220" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_243.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 220. Grease dish representing seal. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_220">220</a> represents a dish +in the shape of a seal. +The whole dish is carved +in the form of the animal; +but the bottom, which corresponds +to the belly, is flattened, and the back is hollowed out +so as to form the bowl of the dish. In order to gain a wider rim +the whole back has been distended so that the animal becomes +inordinately wide as compared to its length. The flippers are carved +in their proper positions at the sides of the dish. The hind flippers +are turned back, and join the tail closely. A similar method of +representation is used in decorating small boxes. The whole box +is considered as representing an animal. The front of the body is +painted or carved on the box front; its sides, on the sides of the +box; the hind side of the body, on the back of the box (see figs. +282 et seq., p. 270). The bottom of the box is the animal’s stomach; +the top, or the open upper side, its back. These boxes are bent of a +single piece of wood and are represented here unbent.</p> + +<p>In the decoration of silver bracelets a similar principle is followed, +but the problem differs somewhat from that offered in the decoration +of square boxes. While in the latter case the four edges make +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_223">[223]</span>a natural division between the four views of the animal,—front and +right profile, back and left profile,—there is no such sharp line of +division in the round bracelet, and there would be great difficulty +in joining the four aspects artistically, <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: twowhile" id="twowhile">two whole</ins> profiles offer no such +difficulty. This is the method of representation adopted by the +native artists (figs. <a href="#fig_221">221</a>; <a href="#fig_255">255</a>-<a href="#fig_257">257</a> p. 245). The animal is imagined cut +in two from head to tail, so that the two halves cohere only at the +tip of the nose and at the tip of the tail. The hand is put through +this hole, and the animal now surrounds the wrist. In this position +it is represented on the +bracelet. The method +adopted is therefore +identical with the one +applied in the hat (fig. +<a href="#fig_219">219</a>), except that the +central opening is much +larger, and that the animal has been represented on a cylindrical +surface, not on a conical one.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp70" id="fig_221" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_244.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 221. Design on a bracelet representing a bear, + Nass River Indians. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>An examination of the head of the bear shown on the bracelet +(fig. <a href="#fig_221">221</a>), makes it clear that this idea has been carried out rigidly. +It will be noticed that there is a deep depression between the eyes, +extending down to the nose. This shows that the head itself must +not be considered a front view, but as consisting of two profiles +which adjoin at mouth and nose, while they are not in contact with +each other on a level with the eyes and forehead. The peculiar +ornament rising over the nose of the bear, decorated with three +rings, represents a hat with three rings which designate the rank +of the bearer.</p> + +<p>We have thus recognized that the representations of animals on +dishes and bracelets (and we may include the design on the hat, +fig. <a href="#fig_219">219</a>) must not be considered as perspective views, but as +representing complete animals more or less distorted and split.</p> + +<p>The transition from the bracelet to the painting or carving of +animals on a flat surface is not a difficult one. The same principle +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_224">[224]</span>is adhered to; and either the animals are represented as split in +two so that the profiles are joined in the middle, or a front view +of the head is shown with two adjoining profiles of the body. In +the cases considered heretofore the animal was cut through and +through from the mouth to the tip of the tail. These points were +allowed to cohere, and the animal was stretched over a ring, a cone, +or the sides of a prism. If we imagine the +bracelet opened, and flattened in the manner +in which it is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_221">221</a>, we +have a section of the animal from mouth +to tail, cohering only at the mouth, and +the two halves spread over a flat surface. +This is the natural development of the +method here described when applied to the +decoration of flat surfaces.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_222" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_245.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 222. Painting representing + bear, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It is clear that on flat surfaces this method +allows of modifications by changing the +method of cutting. When the body of a long +animal, such as that of a fish or of a standing quadruped, is cut in +this manner, a design results which forms a long narrow strip. +This mode of cutting is therefore mostly applied in the decoration +of long bands. When the field that is to be decorated is more +nearly square, this form is not favorable. In such cases a square +design is obtained by cutting quadrupeds sitting on their haunches +in the same manner as before, and unfolding the animal so that +the two halves remain in contact at the nose and mouth, while the +median line at the back is to the extreme right and to the +extreme left.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_222">222</a> (a Haida painting) shows a design which has been +obtained in this manner. It represents a bear. The enormous +breadth of mouth observed in these cases is brought about +by the junction of the two profiles of which the head consists.</p> + + +<p>This cutting of the head is brought out most clearly in the painting +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_225">[225]</span>fig. <a href="#fig_223_224">223</a>, which also represents the bear. It is the painting on +the front of a Tsimshian house, the circular hole in the middle of +the design being the door of the house. The animal is cut from +back to front, so that only the front part of the head coheres. The +two halves of the lower jaw do not touch each other. The back +is represented by the black outline on which the hair is indicated +by fine lines. The Tsimshian call such a design “bears meeting”, +as though two bears had been represented.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_223_224" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_246.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 223. Painting from a house-front representing a bear, Tsimshian.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 224. Wooden hat painted with the design of a sculpin, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a number of cases the designs painted on hats must also be +explained as formed by the junction of two profiles. This is the +case in the painted wooden hat (fig. <a href="#fig_223_224">224</a>), on which the design of +a sculpin is shown. It will be noticed that only the mouth of the +animal coheres, while the eyes are widely separated. The spines +rise immediately over the mouth. The flippers are attached to the +corners of the face, while the dorsal fin is split into halves, each +half being joined to an eye.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_226">[226]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_225" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_247_225.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 225. Hat made of spruce roots painted with design of a beaver, Haida or Tsimshian. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The beaver (fig. <a href="#fig_225">225</a>) has been treated in the same manner. The +head is split down to the mouth, over which rises the hat with +four rings. The split has been carried back to the tail, which, +however, is left intact, and turned up towards the centre of the +hat. The importance of the symbols becomes very clear in this +specimen. If the two large black teeth which are seen under the +four rings, and the tail with the cross-hatchings, were omitted, the +figure would represent the frog.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_226_227" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_247_226-227.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 226. Tattooing representing a duck, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 227. Tattooing representing a raven, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In other designs the cut is made in the opposite direction from +the one described heretofore. It passes from the chest to the back, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_227">[227]</span>and the animal is unfolded so that the two halves cohere along the +middle line of the back. This has been done in the Haida tattooings +figs. <a href="#fig_226_227">226</a> and <a href="#fig_226_227">227</a>, the former representing the duck, the +latter the raven. In both the tail is left intact. The duck has been +split along the back so that the two halves of the body do not +cohere except in their lowest portions, while the two halves of the +raven are left in contact up to the head.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_228_229" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_248.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd55">Fig. 228. Dancing-apron woven of mountain-goat wool, design representing a beaver, Tsimshian.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 229. Painted legging with design representing a beaver sitting on a man’s head, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_228_229">228</a> is a dancing-apron woven from mountain-goat wool, and +fastened to a large piece of leather, the fringes of which are set with +puffin beaks. The woven design represents the beaver. Its symbols, the +two pairs of incisors and the scaly tail, are clearly represented. While +in most carvings and paintings the tail is turned upward in front of the +body, it is hanging down here between the two feet. The meaning of +the ornaments in the upper part of the apron to the right and to the +left of the head is not quite clear to me, but, if they are significant at all, +I believe they must be considered as the back of the body split and +folded along the upper margin of the blanket. If this explanation is +correct, we have to consider the animal cut into three pieces, one cut +running along the sides of the body, the other one along the back.</p> + + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_228_229">229</a> shows the design on a leather legging, a beaver squatting +on a human head. In this specimen we observe that the proportions +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_228">[228]</span>of the body have been much distorted owing to the greater width +of the legging at its upper part. The head has been much enlarged +in order to fill the wider portion of the decorative field.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp30" id="fig_230" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_249_230.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 230. Gambling-leather + with engraved + design representing a + beaver, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + + +<p>The gambling-leather (fig. <a href="#fig_230">230</a>) is treated in a similar manner. +It represents the beaver, and must probably be explained as the +animal cut in two. The +symbols,—the large +incisors and a scaly +tail,—appear here as +in all other representations +of the beaver, but +the lower extremities +have been omitted. It +might seem that this +design could be explained +as well as a +front view of the animal, +but the deep depression +between the +two eyes is not in favor +of this assumption. The +head consists undoubtedly +of two profiles, which join at the nose and mouth; but the +cut has not been continued to the tail, which remains intact.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_231" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_249_231.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 231. Embroidered legging + representing a sea-monster + with a bear’s head + and body of the killer, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_231">231</a> is one of a pair of leggings embroidered with quills on +a piece of leather. The design, which represents the sea-monster +described in fig. <a href="#fig_183">183</a>, must also be explained as a representation of +the animal split along its lower side, and flattened. In the lower +portion of the legging the two profiles are seen, which are joined +on a level with the eyes, while the two mouths are separated. The +nostrils are shown in the small triangle below the line connecting +the two eyes. Owing to the shape of the legging, the arms are not +attached to the body, but to the upper part of the head. They +appear at the right and left borders of the legging, and are turned +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_229">[229]</span>inward along the lower jaws, the three-toed paws touching the lower +border. The fins, which are supposed to grow out of the upper +part of the arms, adjoin the elbows, and are turned upward. +Another pair of fins, +which do not appear in +most representations of +this monster, are attached +to the upper +part of the back, and +form the two flaps to +the right and left of +the upper margin. On +the back we see a +series of circles, which +probably represent the +dorsal fin. The tail occupies +the centre of the +upper margin. The +smaller ornaments in +the outside corners of +the head, adjoining the +mouth, probably represent +the gills.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_232" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_250_232.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 232. Painting representing a dog-fish, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_233" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_250_233.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 233. Slate dish design representing a shark, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In the following figures +we find a new +cut applied. Figs. <a href="#fig_232">232</a> +and <a href="#fig_233">233</a> represent the +shark. I explained, when discussing the symbols of the shark, that in the +front view of the animal the symbols are shown to best advantage. For +this reason side views of the face of the shark are avoided, and in +representing the whole animal a cut is made from the back to the lower +side, and the two sides are unfolded, leaving the head in front view.</p> + +<p>The painting (fig. <a href="#fig_232">232</a>) has been made in this manner, the two +halves of the body being entirely separated from each other, and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_230">[230]</span>folded to the right and to the left. The heterocerc tail is cut in +halves, and is shown at each end turned downward. The pectoral fins +are unduly enlarged, in order to fill the vacant space under the head.</p> + +<p>The shark which is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_233">233</a> is treated in a slightly +different manner. Again the head is left intact. The cut is made +from back to chest, but the two halves of the animal are not separated. +They cohere at the chest, and are unfolded in this manner, +so that the pectoral fins +and dorsal fins appear +to the right and left +of the body. The +heterocerc tail is not +clearly indicated in this +specimen.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_234" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_251.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 234. Painting on edge of a blanket representing + a killer-whale, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The method of section +applied in fig. <a href="#fig_234">234</a> +is still different. The +figure represents a +painting on the border +of a large skin blanket. +The animal here represented is the killer-whale. The upper painting +clearly represents the profile of the animal. The lower painting +represents the other profile, so that both the right and the left +halves are visible. Since there was no room for showing the dorsal +fin on the lower painting, it is indicated by a curved line on one +of the series of wider fringes at the lower border. It is remarkable +that the tails in the two halves of the animal are not drawn symmetrically; +but it is possible that this is due to a mistake on the part of +the painter, because the design is repeated on the opposite border of +the blanket in the same manner, but with symmetrical tails. The +two halves of the body differ in details, but their main features are +identical. The flipper is shown on a very large scale. It is attached +immediately behind the head, and extends to a point near the tail. Its +principal part is occupied by a face, in front of which an eye is shown.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_231">[231]</span></p> +<p>Animals are represented by means of sections not only on flat +surfaces, but also in round carvings in which one side cannot be +shown. This is the case on all totem poles, for the rear side of +the pole is not carved. Whenever all the +symbols of the animal can be shown on +the front of the totem pole, the animals +are apparently represented in their natural +position. But representations of animals, +the symbols of which would be placed +on the rear side of the totem pole, make +it clear that the artist actually splits the +animals along the rear of the totem pole, +and extends this cut in such a way that +the animal is spread along the curved +front of the pole. This will become clear +by a consideration of the following figures.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp30" id="fig_235_236" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_252.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable wd100"> +<tr class="fs80"> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 235.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 236.</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2"> + Fig. 235. Model of totem pole + representing + a sea-monster, Haida.<br> + + Fig. 236. Model of totem pole + representing a sculpin, Haida. +</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_235_236">235</a> represents a sea-monster with +a whale’s body and bear’s paws. It differs +from the monster discussed before in that +it has a whale’s head, and no fins attached +to the fore paws. It has, however, +one large dorsal fin. The blow-hole +of the whale is shown over its +eyebrows. The tail is turned up in front +of the body, and the paws are raised in +front of the chest. The dorsal fin will +be recognized in the narrow strip, ornamented +with a small ring, which slants +downward from the elbow towards the tail. An ornament of this +sort is shown on both sides of the carving. We see, therefore, that +the dorsal fin has been split, and is turned down along each side +of the body. This shows that the right and left margins of the +carved portion of the totem pole must be considered as the medial +line of the back, which has been split and pulled apart.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_232">[232]</span></p> +<p>The sculpin on the totem pole (fig. <a href="#fig_235_236">236</a>) is treated in the same +manner, but in this case the cut is made along the lower side of +the animal. The head is turned upward, so that the front view of +the face is seen when looking down upon the back of the fish. The +spines rise over nose and eyebrows. The pectoral +fins are shown over the eyebrows on the edge +of the carved portion of the pole, while the hind +portion of the lower part of the body occupies +the upper part of the margin of the pole.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp25" id="fig_237" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_253.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 237. Model of totem + pole representing a + sea-monster devouring + a fish, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The exceedingly intricate central figure on the +pole shown in fig. <a href="#fig_237">237</a> must be explained in the +same manner as fig. <a href="#fig_235_236">235</a>. We see here the sea-monster +described before in fig. <a href="#fig_183">183</a>. It has a +bear’s head. In each ear is placed a small human +figure the hands of which grasp the eyelid of the +monster, which they are lifting. The tail (<i>c</i>) is turned +upward in front of the body, immediately over a +beaver’s head which is the next lower figure on +the column. The dorsal fin (<i>a</i>) has been split, and +one-half of it is seen under the mouth of the bear, +indicated by a projection which is decorated with +a double circle. The fore paws of the animal (<i>d</i>) +are raised in front of its chest, and appear under +the mouth. The fins which are attached to them (<i>b</i>) +are shown to the right and to the left of the +tail. The animal is swallowing another being, but +it is not clear what animal is meant. A fish tail +and a hand are seen protruding from the mouth. +The space between the fore paws and the tail of +the sea-monster is occupied by an inverted bird, +which will be seen clearly when the figure is reversed. Its head is +shown with beak resting between the feet. The two wings (<i>e</i>) are extended, +and reach from the fins of the fore arm of the monster to its +dorsal fin. The particular point brought out by this figure is the same as +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_233">[233]</span>that which I tried to explain in considering fig. <a href="#fig_235_236">235</a>; namely, that the +two edges of the carved pole must be considered as the extended +medial line of the back of the animal that is represented on the pole.</p> + +<p>These carvings make it clear that in paintings on hats, such as +shown in figs. <a href="#fig_219">219</a>, <a href="#fig_223_224">224</a> + and <a href="#fig_225">225</a>, and in flat figures, such as fig. +<a href="#fig_163">163</a>, we must consider the outer rim of the figure as the distended +sides of a cut made along the lower side of the body. All of these +distortions and sections of animals may be explained by the necessity +the artist felt of showing in his work all the symbols of the animal.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_238_239" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_254.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 238. Slate carving representing the sea-monster, Wasgo, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 239. Tattooing representing the fabulous sea-monster, Ts’um’a´ks, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In most cases the symbols appear clearly in profiles of animals. +For this reason the artist, when representing profiles, has not endeavored +to show both sides of the body. I will give here a series of +figures illustrating this point.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_238_239">238</a> represents the top of a box on which is carved the +sea-monster Wasgo. It has a wolf’s head and body, and a large +dorsal fin. It is able to hunt in the sea as well as on land. The artist +has shown a profile of the animal with one foreleg and one hindleg, +the tail curled up over the back. The dorsal fin, which in most representations +of this animal stands out vertically from the body, has +been laid down along the back in order to fit it into the decorative field.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_238_239">239</a> is a tattooing representing the sea-monster Ts’um’a´ks, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_234">[234]</span>which is sometimes described as having a raven’s body with a whale’s +body attached to its head, and a fin attached to the raven’s back. It +is shown in profile with one leg, the dorsal fin, and the tails of raven +and whale, twisted around so as to be seen from the side. In other +cases it is described as having a bear’s head with the mouth of a shark.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_240_241" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_255_240-241.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 240. Slate dish with design representing a killer-whale, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 241. Drum painted with design of an eagle, Tsimshian.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_240_241">240</a>, which represents the design on a circular slate dish, +we see a good case of the adaptation of a profile to the decorative +field. The design represents a killer-whale with two dorsal fins. +The animal is bent around the rim of the dish so that the head +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_235">[235]</span>touches the tail. The two dorsal fins are laid flat along the back, +while the large flipper occupies the centre of the dish.</p> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_240_241">241</a>, which is the painting on the head of a drum, is a combination +of front and side views. The head is turned sideways, while +the body, the outstretched wings, and the feet are shown in front +view. This method is found rarely in the art of the North Pacific +coast, and, so far as I am aware, almost exclusively in representations +of the eagle (see, however, fig. <a href="#fig_238_239">239</a>). The painting on the outer +ring of the drum-head is difficult to explain. It will be noticed +that the tail of the eagle occupies the lower centre of the ring. On +top we see the front view of a human figure, the arms of which, +of diminutive size, are placed near the lower corners of the face, +while the hands are of very large size. The two sitting figures below +the two hands probably represent the back of the man who is +shown on top, but their connection with the peculiar fin-like figures +on the lower portion of the painting is not clear.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_242_243" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_255_242-243.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 242. Tattooing representing the moon, Haida.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 243. Carving on the end of a food tray representing a hawk, Tlingit.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_242_243">242</a> is a tattooing representing the moon. In its lower portion +the crescent will be seen. In the dark portion of the moon a semi-human +figure is shown in profile, with one leg. One arm is extended +downward, and one backward, as though he were lifting a heavy weight.</p> + +<p>There are very few designs which can possibly be interpreted as +full-face views of animals. I explained before that the face of the +shark is always shown in this manner, because its symbols appear +best in this position. The only other animal which is painted or +carved on flat surfaces in full front view is the hawk or thunder-bird, +whose symbol is the long beak which descends to the chin. +A number of carvings representing the thunder-bird were given in +figs. <a href="#fig_164_167">165</a>-<a href="#fig_168_170">168</a> (p. 191).</p> + +<p>We find full-face representations of the thunder-bird frequently +used on dishes, on which the beak is indicated by a long wedge +which separates the mouth into two halves. It is, however, not +certain whether the artists consider this face always as a full front +view, because we often find (fig. <a href="#fig_242_243">243</a>) a depression between the two +eyes, corresponding to the depression which I described before +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_236">[236]</span>when referring to the joining of the profiles of animals. It may be +that the long central wedge must be considered as the two halves +of the long descending beak, which join in the middle. It might be +expected, however, that in this case the beak would, at least sometimes, +be carried on outward to the right and to the left below the +chin, corresponding to one-half of the beak seen in fig. <a href="#fig_164_167">166</a> (p. 191). +I have not observed a single specimen in which this is the case, and +therefore I am inclined to consider +the carvings of thunder-birds on +dishes as full front views.</p> + +<p>This ornament may have originated +in the following manner: Many +grease and food dishes have the +form of canoes. The canoe symbolizes +that a canoe-load of food is +presented to the guests; and that +this view is probably correct is +indicated by the fact that the host +in his speeches sometimes refers +to the canoe filled with food which +he gives to his guests. The canoe form is often modified, and a +whole series of types may be established forming the transition +between canoe dishes and ordinary trays. Dishes of this sort +always bear a conventionalized face at each short end, while the +middle part is not decorated. This is analogous to the style of the +decoration of the canoe. On the whole the decoration of the canoe +is totemic. It may, however, be that the peculiar manner in which +the beak of the hawk is represented has given rise to the prevalence +of this decoration. The upper jaw of the hawk is always +shown so that its point reaches the lower jaw and turns back into +the mouth. When painted or carved in front view the beak is indicated +by a narrow wedge-shaped strip in the middle of the face, +the point of which touches the lower margin of the chin. The +sharp bow and stern of a canoe with a profile of a face on each +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_237">[237]</span>side, when represented on a level or slightly rounded surface, would +assume the same shape. Therefore it may be that originally the +middle line was not the beak of the hawk, but the foreshortened +bow or stern of the canoe. This decoration is so +uniform that the explanation given here seems to +me probable.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_244" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_257.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 244. Painting from a house-front + representing thunder-bird, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_244">244</a> we see a painting representing a full +front view of the thunder-bird. Its principal symbol +is the long beak, which in front view appears +like a long line descending from the nose over the +mouth. In this case it is doubtful whether the +body may be considered as being split along the +back. Since the face is certainly represented in +front view, it seems more likely that the animal +is represented with spread wings, similar to the +eagle in fig. <a href="#fig_240_241">241</a>.</p> + +<p>I have described a number of dissections applied +in representing various animals. Heretofore +we have had cases only in which the dissections +were rather simple. In many cases in which the +adaptation of the animal form to the decorative +field is more difficult, the sections and distortions +are much more far-reaching than those described +before.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp25" id="fig_245" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_258.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 245. Model of totem + pole with design representing + a killer-whale, + Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The cut that has been applied in the totem +pole (fig. <a href="#fig_245">245</a>) is much more intricate than the +preceding ones. The upper figure represents a +bird which is shown in the form of a human being, +to the arms of which wings are attached. Under this +figure we find a representation of the killer-whale. +The hind part of its body is more easily recognized +than the head. A small human figure is +seen riding on the dorsal fin. The tail (<i>a</i>), which appears at the lower +margin of the figure, is turned backward over the back of the animal. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_238">[238]</span>We must therefore imagine that the head has been turned downward +behind the human figure (<i>b</i>) riding on the dorsal fin (<i>c</i>). It would, therefore, +lie on the back of +the totem pole, which +is not carved. Consequently, +according to +what was stated before, +the artist has split and +distended it so that the +middle line appears at +each edge of the carved +portion of the pole. +Thus the right half of +the head (<i>d</i>) has been +brought into view on +the right side of the +totem pole, and the left +half on the left. This +is the explanation of +the whale’s head with +its teeth, which is seen +in our figure next to +the tail, the lower jaw +being omitted. The flipper +(<i>e</i>) which adjoins +the head, is laid over +the back of the whale, +immediately under the +feet of the human being +riding on the dorsal fin +of the whale. The figure +must therefore be explained in such a way that the animal is twisted +twice, the tail being turned up over the back, and the head being +first turned down under the stomach, then split and extended outward.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_239">[239]</span></p> +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_246" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_259_246.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 246. Painting for a box front, design + representing a frog, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_246">246</a> is a copy of a painting on the front of a box, made +on paper with colored crayons by a Haida Indian named Wiha. +It represents a frog. By far the greater portion of the box front +is occupied by the head of the animal, which, according to what +was said before, must be considered as consisting of two adjoining +profiles. The symbol of the frog’s head is its toothless mouth. +The two black portions extending downward from the lower corners +of the face are two halves +of the body. To these are +joined the fore paws, which +occupy the space below +the mouth; the upper arm +and fore arm being turned +inward, the fore feet being +turned outward under the +arm. The hind legs occupy +the lateral field on +both sides of the head. +They are not connected +in any way with the body +of the animal.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_247" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_259_247.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 247. Painting for a house-front, design + representing a killer-whale, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_247">247</a> we find a novel representation of the killer-whale, +which was given to me as illustrating the painting on a house of +the Kwakiutl Indians. The sections that have been used here are +quite complicated. First of all, the animal has been split along its +whole back towards the front. The two profiles of the head have +been joined, as described before. The painting on each side of the +mouth represent gills, thus indicating that a water-animal is meant. +The dorsal fin, which according to the methods described heretofore +would appear on both sides of the body, has been cut off from the +back before the animal was split, and appears now placed over the +junction of the two profiles of the head. The flippers are laid along +the two sides of the body with which they cohere only at one +point each. The two halves of the tail have been twisted outward +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_240">[240]</span>so that the lower part of the figure forms a straight line. This is +done in order to fit it over the square door of the house.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_248" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_260.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 248. Painting for a house-front with design + representing a killer-whale, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_248">248</a> the same animal has been treated in still a different +manner. The figure illustrates also the painting from a house-front +of the Kwakiutl Indians. The central parts of the painting are the +two profiles of the head of the killer-whale. The notch in the lower +jaw indicates that it also has been cut, and joined in its central part. +The cut on the upper part of the face has been carried down to +the upper lip. The body has disappeared entirely. The cut of the +head has, however, been carried along backward the whole length +of the body as far as the root of the tail, which latter has been cut +off, and appears over the junction of the two profiles of the head. +The dorsal fin has been split, and the two halves are joined to the +upper part of the head, from which they extend upward and outward. +Immediately below them the two halves of the blow-hole are +indicated by two small faces, the upper parts of which bear a semicircle +each. The flippers are attached to the lower corners of the +face. The painting on the face next to the mouth represents gills.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_249" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_261.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 249. Painting on a paddle representing porpoise and seal, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_249">249</a> is a complicated painting on a Kwakiutl paddle. It represents +a porpoise and a seal combined; the porpoise turning to +the right, the seal to the left, and both having a common body. At +the right is seen the head of the porpoise and the short lines behind +it, upward, represent the animal spouting. (1) is the neck, +(2) the flipper, (3) a joint in the flipper, (4) and (5), (9) and (13) +jointly representing the body of the porpoise, (5) is the stomach, +(8) the dorsal fin of the porpoise, (9) is the backbone both of the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_241">[241]</span>porpoise and of the seal, (12) is the tail of the porpoise. The head +of the seal is shown in (11), (10) represents the ears, although another +pair of ears, like those of all animals, appear over the head. +It has been stated before that (9) is the backbone of both seal and +porpoise, (5) is the stomach of the seal, (13) its flippers, and (4) its tail.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_250" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_262.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 250. Painting for a house-front representing a raven, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_250">250</a> represents the painting from a house-front showing a +raven in profile. This painting appears on the right and left of +the doorway; the beaks facing the door. (1) is the raised tuft on +the head of the raven, (2) feathers, (3) the facial bones, (4) the +skin over the beak, (5) is supposed to be a joint in the tongue, +(6) the skin over the lower jaw, (7) the supposed joint at the base +of the tongue, (8) represents the shoulder joint, (9) feathers, and +(10) the long wing feathers. It will be noticed that the inner feathers +(9) are rounded, while the wing feather has a sharp point, according +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_242">[242]</span>to the standard requirements referred to on p. 205. (11) represents +the tail with a single face as a joint, according to standard requirements.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_251" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_263.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 251. Painting for a house-front representing + a thunder-bird, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_251">251</a> is a design from a house-front, over the door, representing +a thunder-bird. The design must be considered as consisting, +more or less clearly, of two profiles. (1) represents the hooked +nose, (2) the skull, (3) the ears, (4) the feathers over the heavy +eyebrows. The tail rises over the head. It has the characteristic +single joint. Rounded feathers are shown on the wings, right and +left; the extreme long wing feather is sharply pointed. The feet, to +the right and left of the face, are enormously enlarged. The circular +eye design represents the joint to which three toes are attached.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp55" id="fig_252" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_264.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 252. Painting for a house-front + representing a whale, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_252">252</a> represents another painting which is placed over the door +of a Kwakiutl house-front. It represents a whale. In this specimen +are found a number of deviations from the supposed standard. +Below is the tail (1), with the flukes (2). While the double curvature +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_243">[243]</span>on the inner side of the flukes is preserved, there is only one +joint design instead of the normal two. The design (3) on each +side represents the fins. According to the standard these ought to +be round, but they are actually sharply pointed like wing feathers. +This may be due to the prevailing tendency of showing the middle +feathers as round, and letting +the extreme lateral ones run +into a long point which closes +off the design more effectively +<ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: then" id="then">than</ins> a round form would. Over +the tail will be noticed the long +mouth and the nose with its +sudden turn. The line (4) +indicates the strong curve +which sets off the nose from +the forehead. This is analogous +to the treatment of the nose +among the Haida. (5) represents +the shoulder joint. The scallops +under the eyes are the +cheekbones. Over the eyes are +the ears (6), over the forehead +rises the dorsal fin with a +single joint. Normally the eyes +of the whale are round and the person who explained the design +called particular attention to the fact that in this painting they had +not the standard form.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_253" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_265_253.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 253. Painting for a house-front representing + a raven, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_253">253</a> is another house-painting of the Kwakiutl, representing +the raven. The same principle as in fig. <a href="#fig_251">251</a> has been adhered +to by the artist. The central portion of the figure is occupied +by the head of the raven split from its lower side upward so that +the two halves cohere along the upper edge of the beak. The two +halves of the head have been folded outward, so that the two +halves of the tongues (2) and the two lower jaws (1) appear on each +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_244">[244]</span>side of the central line. The two halves of the lower side of the +body are shown extending in a curved line (3) from the corners of the +mouth towards the tail, which latter has not been cut. The wings +have been considerably reduced in size, and pulled upward so that +they appear over each upper corner of the head. The legs (5) occupy +the right and left lower +parts of the painting, the +feet (4) being disconnected +from the thin legs.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_254" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_265_254.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 254. Painting from the edge of a blanket representing + a sea-monster, Northern British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_254">254</a>, which is a +painting on the margin +of a blanket, the sea-monster +described in Fig. +<a href="#fig_183">183</a> (p. 199) is represented. +The animal is shown here +as split in two along its +back; but all its parts, +except the head, the paws, +and the tail, are much +reduced in size. The +two enormous eyes, and +between them the nose, +will be readily recognized. +The teeth are indicated by +a series of slanting lines +under each eye, but the +lower jaws of both halves +have been omitted. The whole body is represented by the thin line +extending from the lower outer corner of the eyes upward, then along +the upper margin of the painting, and downward again. The three +dorsal fins are shown over this line,—one-half of each on each +side of the back. The arms are indicated by two curves under the +line indicating the back. The fin of the arm is shown under the +fore arm. While all these are of small size, the paw which adjoins +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_245">[245]</span>the fore arm is shown on a large scale, the claws turned towards +the face. The line representing the body runs towards both ends +of the painting along the lower margin until it is merged into the +tail, one-half of which is shown on each side. In this specimen the +proportions of the body are much more distorted than in any previous +case.</p> + +<p>The following series of figures are designs found on a number of +silver bracelets. The animals represented on these are also shown very +fragmentarily.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_255" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_266_255.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 255. Design on a silver bracelet representing + a beaver, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_255">255</a> we see the +beaver cut in two along +its back. The face does +not need any further explanation. +The fore legs +adjoin it on each side, +the toes being turned inward; +but the whole rest +of the body has been +omitted, except the two +halves of the tail, which +the artist was compelled to show, because they are symbols of the animal.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_256" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_266_256.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 256. Design on a silver bracelet representing + a sea-monster, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_256">256</a> we recognize the sea-monster, with a bear’s head and +a whale’s body. Here also by far the greater portion of the etching +represents the head and fore arms of the monster. The fins, that are +attached to the upper arms near the elbow, are shown on a rather small +scale. The whole rest of the body is of small size, the two halves of +the body, with the adjoining half of the tail, occupying only the outer +upper margin of the bracelet. I am not quite clear whether the artist +intended to represent the two halves of the dorsal fin by the curved +ornament adjoining the hat which rises over the nose of the monster.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_246">[246]</span></p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_257" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_266_257.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 257. Design on a silver bracelet representing + a hawk, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The hawk which is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_257">257</a> has been cut in a different +manner, namely, from the beak backward, the two halves being +then turned outward. The centre of the design is occupied by the +two halves of the head, and the two talons which adjoin it. The wings +are cut off from the body, and occupy the outer corners of the design.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_258" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_267.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 258. Slate dish with design representing + a sea-monster, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The designs on the following series of carvings are no less conventionalized. +Fig. <a href="#fig_258">258</a> is a sea-monster adjusted to a circular slate +dish. The carving is perfectly +symmetrical. The drawing appears +asymmetrical because it +has been taken from an eccentric +point of view. Here also the +centre is occupied by the head +of the animal. The tail is seen +under the lowest part of the +mouth, turned upward in front +of the body. The arms are +shortened considerably. They +are attached to the lower corners +of the mouth, the paws touching +the chin. The fins are joined +to the upper part of the arms, +and are turned upward so that +they lie close to the sides of the face and about on a level with +the ears. Attention is called again to the spiral nostrils.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_259" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_268_259.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 259. Front of a slate box with design + representing a sea-monster, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_259">259</a>, which represents the front of a small box carved in +slate, the same sea-monster is shown. Again we see the animal cut +in two, the section separating the eyes and the ears, the mouth, +however, being left intact. Here the whole body has been omitted, +with the exception of the paws to which the fins are attached. The +paws will be recognized turned inward under the mouth, while the +fins extend upward along the outer margins of the slab. The dorsal +fin has been bisected, and one-half is shown in each upper corner. +The ornament in the centre of the upper margin probably represents +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_247">[247]</span>the tail turned upward over the back so that it almost touches the head. +This arrangement must be considered in connection with the formal +treatment of boxfronts which will be discussed later (pp. <a href="#Page_263">263</a> et seq.).</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_260" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_268_260.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 260. Slate slab with design representing + a sea-monster, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Fig. <a href="#fig_260">260</a> represents the carving on a slate slab. We have here +a different representation +of the sea-monster, +which is also, as we +might say, much abbreviated. +The head +occupies by far the +larger portion of the +carving. The body +which is seen underneath +the head, in the +centre of the slab, is +indicated by a comparatively +small square +with rounded edges, +decorated with two fins. +The rest of the decoration +on the lower edge +of the slab must be +interpreted as the arms +of the monster, the +large face on each +corner representing an +elbow. The whole arm, +extending from the elbow to the hand, is omitted. The latter is +indicated by an oval the centre of which is occupied by an eye. +From it rise the three fingers or claws. The important symbols +of the monster, the fins, which are attached to the fore arm, are +shown adjoining the elbow, and rise along the sides of the slab, +outside of the eyes. The two ornaments occupying the upper +corners of the slab are undoubtedly the tail. This arrangement is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_248">[248]</span>also determined by the general principles governing the decoration +of boxes (see p. <a href="#Page_263">263</a>).</p> + +<p>The shark which is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_261_262">261</a> is found on one end of a +small food tray. I do not need to repeat the description of the +shark’s face, on which the characteristic symbols will be recognized. +I have introduced this figure here in order to show that the whole +body of the animal has been omitted with the sole exception of its +pectoral fins, which are carved on the rim of the tray on both sides +of the forehead. Their position is somewhat analogous to the one +found on the totem pole fig. <a href="#fig_212_213">213</a> (p. 219).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_261_262" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_269.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdc wd40">Fig. 261. Design from the end of a food tray representing a shark, Tlingit.</td> +<td class="tdc">Fig. 262. Slate dish with design representing a sculpin, Haida.</td> +</tr> +</table> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In figs. <a href="#fig_261_262">262</a> and <a href="#fig_263">263</a> we find the representations of the sculpin +distorted and dissected in the same manner as the sea-monster of +the preceding figures.</p> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_261_262">262</a> the sculpin has been adapted to a circular slate dish. +The centre of the design is occupied by a rosette, which has +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_249">[249]</span>undoubtedly been copied from European patterns. In the drawing the +outlines of the various parts of the body have been strengthened in +order to make their relations somewhat clearer. It will be noticed +that the head is split in two, cohering only at the nose and the +upper jaw. The two spines rise immediately from the nose. The +two halves of the body extend from the corners of the face upward +along the rim of the dish. There they grow thinner, indicating +the thin portion of the fish body near the tail. The tail has not +been split, and is turned +upward and backward so +that it touches the central +rosette. A comparison between +this design and the +design at the centre of the +upper margin in fig. <a href="#fig_259">259</a> +will show a great similarity +between the two, thus making +it probable, that, as stated +before, the latter design is +intended to represent the +tail of the monster. The +pectoral fins of the sculpin are shown in a rather abnormal position. +They are turned forward from the body so that they adjoin the +lower jaw. They will be recognized between the jaws and the +rim of the dish. The dorsal fin is indicated by the long pointed +ornaments extending from the eye towards the tail.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_263" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_270.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 263. Front of a slate box with design + representing a fish, Haida. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In the design fig. <a href="#fig_263">263</a> a fish has been dissected in a somewhat +different manner. The head occupies the upper margin of the +slab. It has a remarkably triangular shape. The body has been +bisected from head to tail, and turned and twisted in such a manner +that each half extends in a curve downward from the corners of +the face to the middle of the lower margin of the slab. The pectoral +fins have been left in contact with the corners of the mouth, +and are placed in the same position as in the preceding figure, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_250">[250]</span>namely, adjoining the lower jaw. They meet just below the chin of +the animal. I believe the ornaments which are stretched along +the right and left margins of the slab represent the dorsal fins.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_264" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_271.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 264. Body painting representing + the bear, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I have described at a +previous place (p. 215) the +extraordinary distortion and +dissection of the killer-whale +in its adaptation to a blanket, +and I have given the description +at that place.</p> + +<p>Quite a unique distortion +is found in body paintings +used by the Kwakiutl Indians +in a boy’s dance. Fig. <a href="#fig_264">264</a> +is a copy of a body painting +representing the bear. On +the chest, the head of the +bear is shown turned downward. +The white spots over +the collarbones are the eyes +of the bear; the angular +line with semicircles, the +mouth and teeth. On the +upper arms are shown the +forelegs, the claws just +under the elbow. The hind +legs are shown on the front +of the thighs. On the back of the person is shown the nape of +the bear placed on the upper part of the back; under it, extending +downward, is the back, the lines representing hair. The hip joints +are shown by dark designs on the buttocks. The spiral design on +the left leg was said to represent the tail.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_265" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_272.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 265. Body painting representing + the frog, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Still more remarkable is the frog painting shown in fig. <a href="#fig_265">265</a>. On +the small of the back is shown the top of the head of the frog; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_251">[251]</span>the two eyes with eyebrows above, the mouth below. Corresponding +to this place we find in the front of the body the mouth set +with teeth (which really do not belong to the frog). The back of +the frog is shown on the +upper part of the back; the +hind legs on the back of +the arms. The opposite side +of the hind legs is shown +on the front of the arms. +It seems probable that in +the design which was copied +for me by an Indian, the +painting on the front of the +left arm was accidentally +omitted. The shoulder joint +is shown on the front of the +thighs; the forelegs in corresponding +position on the +back of the thighs; the ankle +joints on the knees; and +the foot on the calf of the +legs. In other words, the +frog is shown in such a way +as though the body of the +person were the frog. No explanation +was given for the +black design on the left leg.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>We will turn now to the purely formal side of the treatment of +the decorative field. There is a tendency to cover the entire surface +with design elements. Vacant places are avoided. When the +surface of the object represented has no features that lend themselves +to decorative development, the artist resorts to devices that +enable him to fill the surface with patterns. On totem poles the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_252">[252]</span>bodies of the animals represented occupy considerable space. The +monotony of the surface is broken by placing the forelegs and hindlegs +across the front of the body, by turning up the tail in front, +and by adding small animal figures.</p> + +<p>Far more important is the application of a great variety of decorative +elements, all of which consist of curved lines. The Indians +have a decided disinclination to apply equidistant curves. In all +work of the better class the lines are so arranged that more or less +crescent shaped surfaces result, or that narrow, curved areas, wide +in the middle, narrower at the ends, are formed.</p> + +<p>The most striking decorative form which is used almost everywhere, +consists of a round or oval field, the “eye design”. This +pattern is commonly so placed that it corresponds to the location +of a joint. In the present stage of the art, the oval is used particularly +as shoulder, hip, wrist, and ankle joint, and as a joint at +the base of the tail and of the dorsal fin of the whale. It is considered +as a cross section of the ball and socket joint; the outer circle the +socket, the inner the ball. Often the oval is developed in the form +of a face: either as a full face or a profile.</p> + +<p>The general disposition of this design demonstrates that the explanation +is not by any means always tenable. Thus in the blanket, +fig. <a href="#fig_205">205</a> (p. 215), the eye pattern in the two lower corners has no connection +with a joint. In this position, in the mouth of an animal, it +is sometimes described as food. The two profile faces higher up on +the side of the same blanket, are obviously fillers. They might be +replaced by “eye designs”. Another instance of similar kind is +found on the upper part of the face of the dish fig. <a href="#fig_168_170">168</a> (p. 191). +The circular designs shown here might perhaps be interpreted as +tail joints, but they are probably decorative elements. The design +appears clearly as a filler in fig. <a href="#fig_283">283</a> <i>f</i> (p. 272) at the inner upper +corner on the long side of the box, and on the ears of the beaver, +fig. <a href="#fig_228_229">229</a>, (p. 227). On Chilkat blankets it appears always in fixed +positions (see p. <a href="#Page_258">258</a>) and in large boxes it is the constant corner +design (see p. <a href="#Page_263">263</a>). Its use and interpretation as a joint is presumably +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_253">[253]</span>related to the frequent ornamental combination +shown, for instance, in the feet on fig. <a href="#fig_160">160</a> +(p. 188) and in the tails fig. <a href="#fig_193">193</a> (p. 205). The +oval represents the joint and the elevated part +the limb. These are at the same time formal +elements that appear regularly on the lateral +border designs on carved boxes (fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a>, p. 263). +The eye design appears in a variety of forms +ranging from a large double eye to a circular +pattern with black center.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Emmons has collected the various +design elements as they appear on the blankets +and has given the names by which they are +designated by the Tlingit (fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a>). These +names do not fit the explanations given for +the whole pattern. The “double eye” (<i>h</i>) and +the “eye” (<i>f</i>) are not always eyes but occur +also as joints, (fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>b</i>). The profile eye is +called the “head of the salmon trout” (<i>c</i>). +It is used quite generally as the eye of any +animal. The “black eye” (<i>g</i>), the “nostril” (<i>l</i>) +and the design called “one in another” (<i>o</i>) are +practically identical. They are also used as +joints. The frequent use of the circular design +of light or dark color, set off against a dark +or light background indicates that the tribes of +the north west coast do not tolerate areas of +the same color, the monotony of which is +relieved by the insertion of circular designs of +contrasting colors. These may be seen on many +blanket and box designs (fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> et seq.).</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp40" id="fig_266" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_274.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 266. Design elements + from Tlingit blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The forms called “side holes” (<i>p</i>) and “holes”, +“ends of gambling sticks” +or “rain drops” (<i>q</i>) have +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_254">[254]</span>white circles relieving a black background. It is quite evident that +these designs also, as parts of the whole design, have not the +significance implied in the names, nor do the names explain the +reason for their use. The frequent occurrence of the white circles, +both isolated and in lines, (see figs. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> et seq., pp. 259 et seq.) +proves that they must be considered primarily as a formal element +designed to break large surfaces.</p> + +<p>It seems to me most likely that the black or white circular design +has been the basis from which the eye design has developed. In +the style of the north west coast art shoulders, hips, hands, and +feet form large dark monotonous surfaces. These are broken by a +large white circle or oval, which is again varied by a black center. +This tendency would also account for the goggle design (fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> <i>i</i>). +The same desire to relieve the monotony of the cheek surface leads +to the insertion of an oval design on the cheek (<i>k</i>).</p> + +<p>In carved designs these forms are not contrasted by color, +but the form alone varies the monotony of the large undecorated +surface.</p> + +<p>Another characteristic pattern, the narrow crescent, has presumably +also originated from the desire to break the monotony of +continuous areas. It appears particularly when it is desired to set +off two merging patterns against each other. Here also design +names obtained by Emmons, “woman’s hair ornament” (<i>r</i>) and +“slit” (<i>s</i>) have nothing to do with its function and significance as +part of the whole pattern.</p> + +<p>The most characteristic filler, next to the eye, is a double curve, +which is used to fill angular and round fields that rise over a +strongly or gently curved line. Many fillers of this type have a dark +colored band at the upper end, generally rounded in paintings or +carvings, square in blankets (see fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a>, lower lateral design on +central panel; the tail patterns, fig. <a href="#fig_193">193</a>). In the blankets the angular +form is perhaps due to the technique in weaving, although the +frequent eye designs prove that round forms are not impossible. +On blankets the heavy upper line is often drawn out into a tip +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_255">[255]</span>(fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> <i>a</i>, over the “goggle” design on the side of the central panel). +Examples of these forms have been collected by Lieutenant Emmons +who states that the Tlingit call them “the wing feather of red-winged +flicker” (fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> <i>t</i>). The use of the pointed form of this design +for a bird feather agrees with the theoretical claim of the Kwakiutl (see +p. 205), but obviously the explanation does not always fit the meaning +of the pattern as a whole, as is shown by the killer-whale design +fig. <a href="#fig_205">205</a> (p. 215) or the whale design fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> (p. 260).</p> + +<p>The design is used commonly to represent quite diverse objects. +Thus, the double flicker-feather (fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> <i>t</i>), occurs in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i> as +the beak of a bird, occupying the middle of the mouth design between +the two large eyes. It occurs also between the ears along +the upper border of the design as the single flicker-feather. Here +as well as over the beak of the bird, in the lateral fields, it is +used only for filling in parts of the design which otherwise would +remain undecorated. In fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> (p. 213) the same design occurs +between the eyes, just over the nostril, and here also it obviously +has nothing to do with the red-winged flicker. Many other cases +of this application of the wing feather design, simply for the purpose +of filling in spaces, may be observed in practically all the blankets. +A comparison of fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> with the box designs fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> shows that +the wing feather design may serve to express the forearm and the +upper arm. In fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a>, we have the two hands placed in a position, +similar to the paws in figs. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> and <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>b</i>. On the box fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>a</i> +the parts are connected with the body by a narrow red strip, which +is divided by characteristic curves into two parts. A comparison of +this design with figs. <a href="#fig_222">222</a> and <a href="#fig_223_224">223</a> shows very clearly that they +are meant to represent the upper arm. In the blanket design fig. +<a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>b</i>, the two sections connecting the paw with the body may be +recognized distinctly as upper arm and forearm. In the blanket +designs fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a>, the space that is available for the upper arm is +much condensed; but it is quite obvious that the two wing feather +designs which lie on the outer sides of the paws must be interpreted +here also as the forearm and upper arm. Judging by this +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_256">[256]</span>analogy, I think there can be very little doubt that the two wing feathers +placed by the sides of the body in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i> may be considered +in the same way as the two parts of the arm of the animal +represented. Since the animal here shown is a bird, these feather +designs are in this way made to represent the bones of the wing.</p> + +<p>Similar considerations have determined the distribution of ornaments +in the design fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> <i>b</i>. Here the two feet will be recognized +at the lower edge of the design. Adjoining it, above the “eye”, +are two long white flicker-feather designs, which obviously represent +the legs. Each of the two inverted double eyes under the jaws +must be interpreted as a shoulder joint to which is attached the +lower part of the arm in the form of a flicker-feather design.</p> + +<p>The forms here discussed are interpreted as various kinds of +animals,—birds, quadrupeds, sea-monsters,—but never as the red-winged +flicker, nor can the parts be interpreted as ornaments made +of flicker-feathers. It is obvious that we are dealing here with a +fixed form, which has a conventional name, and which is used for +a variety of purposes.</p> + +<p>It will be noticed that this design occurs in three principal forms. +In one of these it is cut off square at the upper end. Most of +those shown in fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> are of this type. Another characteristic +form of this design has the pointed wing feather, (as the second +one in the series fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> <i>t</i>). A third form, which is not given in +the series of named designs, seems to be quite common. It has a +rounded tip, and may be observed, for instance, in the beak part in +front of the upper eye in the lateral panels of figs. <a href="#fig_203">203</a> and <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i>; +also in the central field in fig. <a href="#fig_273">273</a> <i>b</i>.</p> + +<p>The wing design is applied wherever a somewhat oval or rectangular +field which is situated laterally has to be filled in, particularly +when the field adjoins another design which is surrounded +by heavy black lines, and which forms part of an animal body. +For this reason the design appears very commonly in front of, over, +or under the eye design. It is used to fill in the ears; it appears +at the sides of the body, as in figs. <a href="#fig_203">203</a> and <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i>; and it is used +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_257">[257]</span>to fill in small fields which adjoin black lines, as for instance, in the +lowest section of the lateral panels in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i>.</p> + +<p>On blankets the light circle on a darker background with black +tip and small white segment at the base, is almost ever-present. +The white segment at the base is limited very often by a pointed +double curve,—like a brace,—which divides the adjoining colored +field more or less distinctly into two halves. These may be observed, +for instance, in one of the ear designs in figs. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> and <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>b</i>, +and also in the design over the nose in fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a>.</p> + +<p>This pattern is also used as a filler for long narrow spaces. According +to Emmons this is called the “mouth design” (fig. <a href="#fig_266">266</a> <i>j</i>) +or the “eyebrow” (<i>e</i>), but it is often used on fields that cannot be +interpreted as “mouth” or “eyebrow”, as for instance, in the lateral +parts of the lower border of fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> and in the lower corner of +the box, fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>b</i>.</p> + +<p>Judging from the general application of this design, it is quite +obvious that it is not primarily a feather design, but that it is a +decorative element used throughout in certain definite positions for +the purpose of filling in.</p> + +<p>Flat black curves are used quite often for indicating the teeth. +These may be observed in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i>, on the body of fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> <i>a</i>, in +the lowest face in fig. <a href="#fig_204">204</a>, in the lower faces of fig. <a href="#fig_271">271</a>.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>We have discussed before the adjustment of animal form to the +decorative field. The adjustment is not by any means free, but +definite, stylistic forms may be recognized. These appear with great +clarity on the Chilkat blankets.</p> + +<p>The measurements of the blankets show that the central height is +very nearly one half of the width. The width of the narrow border, +consisting of a black and yellow stripe, is about one twelfth of the +total width. The angle of the lower border is quite variable, the +vertical distance from a line connecting the lower corners of the +blanket to its greatest depth is generally a little less than one sixth +of the width. The fundamental trait of the blanket pattern is the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_258">[258]</span>division of the field into three panels. The central one about double +the width of the lateral ones, or more. In most blankets the line +of division of these fields is quite clear and is indicated by black +and white lines. The designs on the lateral fields are symmetrical +and quite distinct from the central field.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_267" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_279_267.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 267. Schematic design showing the arrangement of the central field + of the Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_268" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_279_268.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 268. General plans of Tlingit blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The blankets may be divided into two large groups. Their fundamental +patterns are indicated schematically in fig. <a href="#fig_267">267</a>. The one +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_259">[259]</span>design is clearly a representation of an animal with a large head +which occupies the whole upper part of the field down to an almost +straight cross line (fields 1, 2, 5, fig. <a href="#fig_268">268</a>). Under it are the body +(field 3) and in the lower border the tail and hips (field 4) of the +animal. It may be noticed that there are always two tail joints, although +in other cases +the use of a single tail +joint for birds and a +double tail joint for sea +mammals is fairly consistent. +Fields 6, 7, and +8 are used in various +ways. They are not +essential parts of the +animal represented, although +field 6 may be +utilized for the purpose +of showing parts of the +back, and field 7 may +be utilized for a representation +of the fore arms. +In this style we +may distinguish, in the +wide center, a central stripe, consisting of the elements numbered +6, 2, 3, 4 and two lateral stripes 5, 1, 7, and 8. Generally these +sections interlock. In a few specimens, the outer limits of field 3 are +carried down to the lower border so that they form a continuous +broad line with the outer limits of field 4.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_269" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_280.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 269. Chilkat blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Examples of this type are shown in figs. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> and <a href="#fig_269">269</a>. In these +the animal figure in the center appears very clearly. It will be +noticed that the large eyes of the animal have always a cheek design +attached to them. These appear also in fig. <a href="#fig_203">203</a>, a blanket belonging +to the same class, the lower part of which is, however, much +less distinctively body and tail belonging to the large head. The +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_260">[260]</span>reduction of field 7 and its extension to the lower margin is rare +in other specimens. In fig. <a href="#fig_202">202</a> field 7 is occupied by the raised +hands of the animal, while in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>a</i> it is occupied by a wing +design. The rectangular frame surrounding the body in fig. <a href="#fig_269">269</a> <i>b</i> +is an exceptional feature +which I have seen only +in one other modern +blanket.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_270" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_281.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 270. Chilkat blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A sub-type may be +distinguished in which +the lower part is treated +differently (fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> <i>a</i>). +The two eyes of field 4 +are of the same size as +those of field 1. In this +way a more symmetrical +impression is produced, +but at the expense of +the unity of the animal +form. This treatment +lends itself to a sharper +separation of the fields +5, 1, 7, 8 against the +fields 6, 2, 3, 4 so that +the whole central field seems to be divided into three sections (see +fig. <a href="#fig_204">204</a>). Fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a> <i>a</i> is decidedly influenced by the second type of +blanket; the four eyes being approximately of the same size and +symmetrically arranged around a central face.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_271" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_282_271.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 271. Chilkat blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The fundamental feature of the second type of blankets is a central +face placed a little higher than in the preceding type, so that it +forms exactly the center of the whole field. In place of the large +eyes on top, we find two large inverted eyes, often without the +adjoining jaw design. In many cases two small circular patterns, +or small eye designs, occupy the center of the lower border. These +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_261">[261]</span>may often be identified +with the nostril of the +head to which the two +large lower eyes belong. +This pattern is much +more symmetrical than +the former type, but its +symbolism is much more +obscure. I presume that +the inverted position of +the eye in the upper +border is essentially due +to the attempt to obtain +greater symmetry. For +an explanation it is +necessary that the upper +eyes must be viewed as +some part of the body +that is turned upside +down. Characteristic +examples of this type +are shown in figs. <a href="#fig_103">103</a> +and <a href="#fig_271">271</a>. In these, the +fields to the right and +left of the central face +are treated, in the former, +as a profile face; in the +second they are decorated +with a feather design filler. A somewhat different treatment +is given in fig. <a href="#fig_272">272</a> which may be compared with fig. <a href="#fig_270">270</a>. In both a +large face occupies the center of the whole design, surrounded by +the four large eyes and the lateral spaces filled with feather designs.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_272" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_282_272.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 272. Chilkat blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_273">273</a> the upper eyes have been moved towards the center +and the eye design has been expanded into a profile which occupies +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_262">[262]</span>the whole upper margin of the central field. In fig. <a href="#fig_273">273</a> <i>b</i> the lateral +fields next to the central face are occupied by the two sides of the dorsal +fin so that here the form of a whale is brought out fairly clearly.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_273" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_283.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 273. Chilkat blankets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The general scheme of the narrow lateral panels is also quite +definite. We find on practically all the blankets an eye design,—part +of the profile of an +animal’s head,—in the +upper, outer corner, another +eye design near +the lower border, generally +approximately in +the middle of the lateral +field. The position of +the lower eye design is +much more irregular +than that of the upper +one. In general we are +given the impression of +an animal, the body of +which extends along the +extreme outer border +of the blanket, the head +occupying the centre of +the panel, while the feet +or tail are shown along the lower border. In this way a space is +left in the middle, next to the central panel, which does not belong +essentially to the form of the animal.</p> + +<p>In both fundamental types the intervening spaces which are not +filled by the large eye designs, the body, tail, and extremities, are +filled with a variety of patterns which depend only in part upon the +selection of the animal to be represented, but are very largely +determined by esthetic considerations.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_274" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_284.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 274. Front, reverse and side of a painted box. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="fig_275" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_285_275.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 275. Painted and carved box front. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_276" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_285_276.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 276. Four sides of a painted box, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The broad sides of rectangular boxes bear the same fundamental +design as the first type of blankets; an animal with an enormous +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_263">[263]</span>head on the upper border, the body occupying the centre below. +A fairly consistent difference between the blanket and box types is +that the lower border of the large face is curved on the boxes; +straight on the blankets. I believe this difference is due to the +desire to avoid excessive parallelism. In the blanket the straight +lower line of the head is set off against the curves of the upper +part of the head and against the angle in the lower border of the +blanket, while in the boxes a straight middle line would appear set +off against the parallel upper and lower edges of the box. The +lateral panels of the blanket correspond, in a way, to the narrow +lateral strips in the front of the long boxes (fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>a</i>) which are +characterized by a fairly large eye design in each corner. These +are connected by a variety of decorative elements. At the lower +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_264">[264]</span>border of the box front +there originate, in this +manner, five fields. +The middle one being +occupied by the body +of the central animal; +the corners being occupied +by the eye designs +which form the +basis of the lateral +strips. Between these +there remain spaces which are often filled with designs representing +the fore or hind feet of the central animal. On account of the shifting +of the eyes the five field division does not appear as clearly in +fig. <a href="#fig_275">275</a>. The reverse side of fig. <a href="#fig_276">276</a> is treated differently; in the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_265">[265]</span>lower field the body is omitted, the two eyes placed in the middle +so that a fourfold division of the whole area under the mouth +originates. A similar treatment is given to a front (fig. <a href="#fig_277">277</a> below), +in which the eyes are placed in the corners while the middle is +occupied by the two sides of a tail, which, however, is treated like +a hawk’s face. The arbitrary character of the details appears very +clearly in this arrangement.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_277" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_286.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 277. Four sides of a painted box, front on a larger scale, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The narrow sides of the boxes are generally painted with a design +analogous to the central design of the front with this difference, +however, that the lateral panels are missing and that the head is +more compressed. In a number of cases the short sides are treated +differently, as shown in fig. <a href="#fig_276">276</a>. Very rarely the short sides contain +a profile figure that does not occupy the whole width of this +side (fig. <a href="#fig_277">277</a>).</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_266">[266]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_278" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_287.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 278. Front and side of a painted box. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are also a number of low boxes which are treated somewhat +differently. On account of the lowness of the sides the lower +rim of the head is drawn straight so that a narrow rectangular panel +originates along the lower border (fig. <a href="#fig_278">278</a>). In this specimen the +eyes are retained; the central face in the lower field presumably +represents the body, to which are attached the arms and hands. In +most specimens of this type, however, the lower section is almost +entirely suppressed; the large upper face is retained but under it +we find only a few ornaments that may be interpreted only as fillers +(fig. <a href="#fig_279">279</a> above).</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_279" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_288.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 279. Front, reverse and side of carved boxes. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are also a number of low boxes in which the body is +entirely suppressed. They contain, essentially, the large head design +with a few decorative features along the sides, and the eyes in the +upper corners. (Fig. <a href="#fig_279">279</a> below).</p> + + +<p>The arrangement of the long boxes is such that the center of +the mouth, or a point a little below it, is the center of the decorative +field (figs. <a href="#fig_274">274</a>-<a href="#fig_276">276</a>). A line drawn from the center of the +lower border to the upper corners passes almost always along the +corner of the mouth and often also through the sharp curve at the +upper, outer outline of the face. The line drawn from the center +of the upper border to the lower corner passes, generally, through +the corner of the mouth. When the central field along the upper +border is wide, so that it reaches down to the upper curve limiting +the mouth, the eye is shown in profile (figs. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>b</i>, <a href="#fig_276">276</a> reverse). +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_267">[267]</span>When the central field consists only of a sharp short angle, there +is a double eye (figs. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>a</i>, <a href="#fig_275">275</a>, <a href="#fig_276">276</a> front, <a href="#fig_277">277</a>).</p> + +<p>The general arrangement of lines on the box is such that the +upper curves of the face are strongly curved downward. The +curvature decreases downward; and in some boxes, for instance in +those shown in figs. <a href="#fig_275">275</a> and <a href="#fig_276">276</a> reverse, there is a tendency to an +arrangement of lines which are convex, upward.</p> + +<p>The eye decorations are always so placed that they are not +arranged in straight lines. It will be seen that in the best boxes +they fall into curves that intersect the black lines of the design. +In fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>a</i>, the eyes in the lower corners and those in the mouth +are placed so as to form a continuous curve; in fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a> <i>b</i>, the +arrangement of the eyes in the upper corners, the eyes of the large +head, and those in the mouth form a fairly regular curve.</p> + +<p>In the square boxes on which only one side of the face is shown +on each side (fig. <a href="#fig_280">280</a>), the body is very much reduced in size. In +most of these the large head is limited below by a straight line, +while on the long boxes containing the full face on the front the +lower line of the face is curved. In only one of these (fig. <a href="#fig_278">278</a>) do +we find the face limited below by a straight line.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_268">[268]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_280" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_289.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 280. Carved boxes. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_280">280</a> <i>a</i>, the two sides shown on the left are occupied by a +large head on top, corresponding to the blanket fields 1, 2, and 5. +The ear (5) is much reduced in size. The sharp beak in the middle +indicates that the hawk is meant. Under it is seen a small field +corresponding to field 3 on the blankets and under it a face with +its two eyes, corresponding to 4. The field 7 is occupied by the +arms, indicated by the curved line running from the shoulder to the +wrist of the raised hand. The whole lateral field of the blanket is +condensed in the narrow strip to the right and left of the face and +body. The designs on the upper corners are clearly ornamental +and do not represent any particular part of the head; the eyes in the +lower corners are considered as feet and toes; the large eyes over +the lower corners as knee joints. The two sides of the box shown +on the right hand side correspond in all details to those on the +left, excepting the mouth, which is treated quite differently; the +nostrils being shown in the center.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_269">[269]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_281" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_290.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 281. Carved box, Tlingit. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In fig. <a href="#fig_280">280</a> <i>b</i> the lower portion of the decorated side is much +reduced in size and the marginal fields are simplified. The +head may represent a hawk; the eyes in the lower fields are +exceptional in so far as they are not placed in the corners but near +the body and they may be considered ankle joints and below them +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_270">[270]</span>the toes. The eye designs in the upper corners take the place of +the ears. The reduction of the body is even more marked in +fig. <a href="#fig_281">281</a>; here the eye designs and the adjoining curves on the +upper margin are clearly fillers; the body has been completely +dissolved. The eyes in the lower corners with the attached lower +curve show an attempt to represent a flipper. The common character +of these three specimens is the horizontal dividing line under the +mouth and (excepting the one face in fig. <a href="#fig_281">281</a>) the general tendency to +the symmetrical arrangement of lines in the upper and lower fields. +The lines in the upper field point from the middle downward, and +those in the lower, from the middle upward.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_282" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_291.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 282. Carved trays. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are a number of peculiar developments of the head and +body designs which are used on small food trays, the sides of which +are bent out of a single plank. In one group of these (fig. <a href="#fig_282">282</a>) the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_271">[271]</span>two narrow sides represent, in front, the head of the animal; on the +opposite, side the tail. This appears most clearly in figs. <a href="#fig_282">282</a> <i>b</i> and <i>d</i>; +both representing the beaver. In fig. <a href="#fig_282">282</a> <i>d</i> the beaver’s head and +tail are perfectly plain. In 282 <i>b</i> there is considerable confusion; +the beaver’s body below is provided with two human arms and +over it is indicated the large characteristic head. The tail is shown +on the opposite short side, together with the hind legs and the two +disconnected eyes which ordinarily would form the hip joints and +would be connected with the upper end of the thighs. On all these +specimens, 282 <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, and <i>c</i>, the other sides show an inverted face. +This originates evidently in such a way that the eyes represent, at +one end, the shoulder joints, at the opposite end, the hip joints, +but instead of developing the sides as fore and hind legs, the +inverted eyes have lead to the development of a face design which +has no particular relation to the animal represented. In other words, +we find here, as well as in many other places that elements which +are in part derived from representations of parts of animals, have +assumed a purely decorative function so that an explanation of the +details is, to a great extend, arbitrary. The geometrical decoration +on the long side of fig. <a href="#fig_282">282</a> <i>d</i> is also derived from the shoulder +and hip joints, but instead of parts of a face, slit designs fill in the +rest of the side.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_283" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_293.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 283. Carved trays. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The trays shown in fig. <a href="#fig_283">283</a> are of the same make as those +shown before, with the only difference that on the long sides the +shoulder joints, knee and foot are shown in the ordinary way. The +hind limbs are here represented on the short side, where the hip +joints are shown by two large eyes in the upper part of the design. +It will be observed, however, that in these cases also there is a +considerable amount of arbitrary use of decorative elements that +have no particular significance, but which must be considered simply +as fillers. This appears most clearly in fig. <a href="#fig_283">283</a> <i>e</i>, which represents +a dish with a design of a human being. Here the arms are represented +on the long sides, the shoulder joint by an eye which, +however, is provided with lids. The space under the eye is filled +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_272"></a><a id="Page_273"></a><a id="Page_274"></a>[274]</span>in with a mouth which has no function in this position. It is +evidently introduced in the same way as the profile faces which +serve as fillers on the blankets. The most distinctive specimen of +this type is shown in fig. <a href="#fig_283">283</a> <i>f</i>. It represents a beaver, the face +indicated by disconnected eyes, mouth, and ear; the nose showing +the form of one of the conventional copper plates used by the +northwest coast Indians, while the face in the middle of the upper +border is purely ornamental. The opposite short side shows very +clearly a tail, hip, legs, and feet and on the long side also the large +shoulder joint in the form of an eye with ear; the arm and the +foot are distinctly shown but here also, by the addition of four +teeth, the shoulder joint is elaborated in the form of a face; the +eyes in the corners of the long field are purely ornamental.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_284" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_294.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 284. Carved trays. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>To the same group belong also the carved trays cut out of a single piece +of wood, shown in fig. <a href="#fig_284">284</a>. Here we have only the head design which is +adjusted to the curvature of the upper border of the decorative field. +The lines of the face are drawn so as to conform to the decorative field.</p> + +<p>It will be observed that the eyes of the large head in the blankets +are always almost horizontal while those on the boxes and trays +are strongly inclined. I presume this is due to the tendency to +avoid massing of parallel lines.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="fig_285" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_295.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 285. Designs on Tlingit armor. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The large head design found on the blankets and boxes occurs +also on the paintings in the center of the front of slat armour. +The lateral panels are missing and the design consists simply of the +head with attached shoulder, arm, and hand (fig. <a href="#fig_285">285</a>).</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_275">[275]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_286" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_296.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 286. Painted tray. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A number of square food trays, bent of a single piece of wood, +are not decorated according to this plan. The face, consisting of two +symmetrical halves, is replaced by a series of profiles (fig. <a href="#fig_286">286</a>); the +short and high sides have the large eye in the left hand upper +corner; the mouth in the lower right hand corner. The design on +the long sides represents the sides of the body. The large eyes +stand, presumably, for the shoulder joint and are placed in the +center of the side; wrist and fingers are in the lower left hand +corner. The significance of the design in the right hand upper +corner is not clear. The general distribution of the design elements +is evidently determined by the central position of the large eyes.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_287" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_297.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 287. Painted boxes. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The boxes shown in fig. <a href="#fig_287">287</a> illustrate that still another pattern +is used on square boxes. Each of the four sides of the two boxes +shown in figs. <a href="#fig_287">287</a> <i>a</i> and <i>b</i>, is divided into four rectangles of unequal size. +The general plan of the two designs is almost the same, although +there are considerable differences in detail. It is quite evident that in +287 <i>a</i> the lower part of the first and third sides represents legs +and feet. A distinct wing design appears in the left hand upper +rectangle of the fourth side, but otherwise the arrangement of the +elements is so arbitrary that a safe interpretation is impossible. +It seems plausible that in this case also the attempt at decoration +was much more important than the attempt at interpretation. +An interpretation was given to me for the box shown in fig. <a href="#fig_287">287</a> <i>b</i>. +Although obtained from Charles Edensaw, one of the best artists +among the Haida, I consider it entirely fanciful. The first side +to the left, corresponds to the third side, which is opposite to +it on the box. The second side corresponds to the fourth side. +Edensaw explained the design as showing four interpretations of the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_276">[276]</span>raven as culture hero. The upper right hand rectangle of the first +side he claimed to represent the head of the raven surmounted by +the ear; the large eye to the left of it, in the left hand upper +corner, the shoulder and under it the wing and tail. The design in +the right hand lower corner he interpreted as the foot; the toes are +clearly visible in the lowest right hand corner of this field. He claims +that the head turned upside down in the left hand upper rectangle +of the second side represents the head of the raven and under it the +hand; the raven being conceived as a human being. The rectangle in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_277">[277]</span>the upper right hand corner contains the shoulder; the right hand lower +corner under it, the tail; and the left hand lower corner, leg and foot.</p> + +<p>The box shown in fig. <a href="#fig_287">287</a> <i>c</i> is related to the general design of +fig. <a href="#fig_287">287</a> <i>b</i>. The somewhat slanting lines between the upper and lower +fields occur in both cases, but the vertical division of each side, +which is characteristic of the specimen just described, is lacking in +the last named specimen.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_278">[278]</span></p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_288" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_298.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 288. Horn spoons showing carving on the back; <span class="nowrap"><i>a</i>, representing sea-monster;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>b</i>, hawk;</span><span class="nowrap"> <i>c</i>, beaver (?);</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>d</i>, raven; <i>e</i>, killer-whale;</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>f</i>, raven;</span> + <span class="nowrap"><i>g</i>, dlia (?);</span> <span class="nowrap"><i>h</i>, sun.</span> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A fairly fixed formal arrangement may also be observed on horn +spoons moulded of a single piece (fig. <a href="#fig_288">288</a>). On the back of the +spoon is a design, the center of which is a large face. In many +specimens the space above the eye is filled by two ear designs +which are doubled and unusually large on account of the space that +they have to fill. In these specimens the space between the ears +is taken up by a narrow decorated +strip. In a few simpler forms parts +of the bowl of the spoon remain +undecorated.</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_289" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_299.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 289. Dish of horn of big-horn-sheep + representing the bear. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp40" id="fig_290" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_306.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 290. Mask of Kwakiutl + Indians used in + winter ceremonial; according + to some representing + fool dancer, + according to others The-One-Shining-Down. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A closer examination of the decorated +objects shows that even +apart from the decorative use of +symbolic motives, geometric elements +are not by any means absent. +The most striking use of geometrical +forms is found on wooden trays, +which bear at the ends the characteristic faces, but which are decorated +on the sides by groups of short parallel lines (fig. <a href="#fig_284">284</a>, p. 273). +The line and circle pattern on the dish (fig. <a href="#fig_168_170">168</a>, p. 191) illustrates also +the use of geometrical forms for decorative purposes. On the berry +spoon (fig. <a href="#fig_215_216">215</a>, p. 221) the space left vacant by the symbolic design +is filled in with a net of crossing lines. This specimen shows that the +cross hatching which occurs in many specimens,—on the beaver tail +(fig. <a href="#fig_157_158_159">157</a>, p. 186), on berry spoons (fig. <a href="#fig_182">182</a>, p. 197), on spoons +(fig. <a href="#fig_189_190">189</a>, p. 201) and often in red or black as a filler on boxes +(fig. <a href="#fig_274">274</a>, p. 263) has a decorative value even when it may be given +at the same time a symbolic meaning. The dish of big-horn-sheep horn +(fig. <a href="#fig_289">289</a>) shows a bear’s head at each end. At the same time it +has a decorative border which seems to imitate the border of a +basket and which is purely ornamental. It serves to close off the +rim which without it would seem to end abruptly. A similar device +is used on a Kwakiutl mask (fig. <a href="#fig_290">290</a>). Although the encircling +ornament is explained as a ring made of twisted, shredded cedar +bark, it is obviously essentially ornamental. The circular and spiral +designs bring out the ornamental character most clearly.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_X" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_300.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate X.</span></p> + + + Chilkat Blanket. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="plate_XI" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_302.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate XI.</span></p> + + + Cedarbark Blanket, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="plate_XII" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_304.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate XII.</span></p> + + + Blankets of Mountain-goat Wool. + + Bella Coola, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_279">[279]</span></p> + +<p>It seems not unlikely that the symbolic style and the desire to +cover the whole field with ornaments have developed exuberantly +only recently. In early times geometric ornaments were probably +more widely used than is the case now. We shall see presently +that they are in extensive use in basketry.</p> + +<p>A number of ancient blankets show that angular +geometrical ornaments played an important part +in earlier weaving. Plate <a href="#plate_X">X</a> represents a blanket +of mountain-goat wool, in the Ethnological +Museum at Copenhagen, formerly belonging to +the old collections in Leningrad. It is decorated +entirely with geometrical designs arranged in +horizontal bands. The same zig-zag pattern in +short panels that occupies alternating bands in this +blanket appears in a second ancient blanket +(Pl. <a href="#plate_XI">XI</a>) which contains also curiously conventionalized +faces and triangular designs. This is a +cedar bark blanket in the British Museum transferred +from the United Service Museum about 1868, +collected at Nootka. It has a border in brown and +yellow wool (?), consisting of obtuse triangles, +assimilated to an eye design. A series of photographs +of blankets in the hands of Dr. Newcombe of Victoria, +British Columbia, shows that these types were in common use in +Bella Coola (Pl. <a href="#plate_XII">XII</a>, see also p. 292).</p> + +<p>Our consideration of the fixed formal elements found in this art +prove that the principles of geometric ornamental form may be +recognized even in this highly developed symbolic art; and that it +is not possible to assign to each and every element that is derived +from animal motives a significant function, but that many of them +are employed regardless of meaning, and used for purely ornamental +purposes.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_280">[280]</span></p> +<p>The symbolic decoration is governed by rigorous formal principles. +It appears that what we have called for the sake of convenience +dissection and distortion of animal forms, is, in many cases, a fitting +of animal motives into fixed ornamental patterns. We infer from a +study of form and interpretation that there are certain purely +geometric elements that have been utilized in the symbolic representation. +Most important among these are the double curve which +appears always as a filler in an oval field with flat base, and the +slit which serves to separate distinct curves. The typical eye design +is presumably related to the circle and dot and may have developed +from the double tendency of associating geometrical motives with +animal forms and of the other, of standardizing forms derived from +animal motives as ornamental elements.</p> + +<p>This art style can be fully understood only as an integral part +of the structure of Northwest coast culture. The fundamental idea +underlying the thoughts, feelings, and activities of these tribes is the +value of rank which gives title to the use of privileges, most of +which find expression in artistic activities or in the use of art forms. +Rank and social position bestow the privilege to use certain animal +figures as paintings or carvings on the house-front, on totem poles, +on masks and on the utensils of every day life. Rank and social +position give the right to tell certain tales referring to ancestral +exploits; they determine the songs which may be sung. There are +other obligations and privileges related to rank and social position, +but the most outstanding feature is the intimate association between +social standing and art forms. A similar relation, although not +quite so intimate, prevails in the relation of religious activities and +manifestations of art. It is as though the heraldic idea had taken +hold of the whole life and had permeated it with the feeling that +social standing must be expressed at every step by heraldry which, +however, is not confined to space forms alone but extends over +literary, musical and dramatic expression. Who can tell whether +the association between social standing and the use of certain animal +forms,—that is the totemic aspect of social life,—has given the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_281">[281]</span>prime impetus to the art development or whether the art impetus +has developed and enriched totemic life? Our observations make +it seem plausible that the particular symbolic development of art +would not have occurred, if the totemic ideas had been absent and +that we are dealing with the gradual intrusion of ever fuller animal +motives into a well established conventionalized art. On the other +hand it seems quite certain +that the exuberance +of totemic form has been +stimulated by the value +given to the art form. We +may observe among all +the tribes that high chiefs +claim highly specialized +art forms that are built +up on the general background +of totemic representation. +In the south, +there is clear evidence of +the late exuberant development +of the totemic, or +perhaps better, crest idea, +owing to the strong endeavor to raise by the possession of art +forms the standing of the social units to which the individual belongs. +The multiplicity of forms among the numerous small divisions of +the Kwakiutl and the sporadic appearance of animal forms among +the adjoining Salish are ample proof of these relations.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_291" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_308.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 291. Ancient type of Kwakiutl box. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_292" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_309_292.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 292. <i>a</i>, Food tray; <i>b</i>, Bucket, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_293" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_309_293.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 293. Small boxes, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figleft illowp50" id="fig_294" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_309_294.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 294. Combs, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp50" id="fig_295" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_309_295.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 295. Bone club and sword, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The style has undoubtedly its home in northern British Columbia +and southern Alaska. The manufactures of the tribes of Vancouver +Island show a far more extended use of geometrical ornamentation +than those of the northern tribes. I am under the impression that +these are survivals of an older style. Trays, boxes, and baskets of +the Kwakiutl Indians are still decorated with geometrical patterns. +A rattle used in a ceremony performed after the birth of twins +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_282"></a><a id="Page_283"></a>[283]</span>(fig. <a href="#fig_19_20">19</a>, p. 31) bears a pattern consisting of angular fields. Ancient +boxes found in caves are ornamented with a geometrical style more +elaborate than that of modern times (fig. <a href="#fig_291">291</a>).</p> + + +<p>The small food trays, the sides of which are bent out of a single +board, bear on the upper end a border pattern consisting of equidistant +lines following the rim, while the body of the sides is ornamented +with vertical lines (fig. <a href="#fig_292">292</a> <i>a</i>). A similar border pattern is +found on buckets (fig. <a href="#fig_292">292</a> <i>b</i>). In boxes a border design is cut in, +setting off the central field +(fig. <a href="#fig_293">293</a>). Combs are decorated +with geometrical motives most +of which consist of a central +rectangular field set off from +the background by parallel lines +or developed by a subdivision +of the field. In one case triangles +and crossing lines with +hachure are used (fig. <a href="#fig_294">294</a>). On +a bone sword the decoration +consists of circles with center, a +pattern that is widely distributed +among the western Eskimo, the plateau tribes of the interior and in +California (fig. <a href="#fig_295">295</a>). It will be noticed that the head carved at +the end of this specimen does not conform at all to the style of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_284">[284]</span>art here discussed but rather agrees with the carving found in the +region of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound. Another specimen +(fig. <a href="#fig_295">295</a>), differs still more from the style of the Northwest coast +art and resembles that of the tribes of the interior.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_296" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_310_296.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 296. Spindle whorls. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_297" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_310_297.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 297. Ladle made of big-horn-sheep horn, + Columbia River. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In the art of the West coast of Vancouver Island, in a few ancient +specimens of the Kwakiutl and particularly in the whole area of +the Gulf of Georgia, a triangular motive analogous to the “Kerbschnitt” +of northern Europe, plays an important role. It is found +on the ancient Kwakiutl boxes previously referred to (fig. <a href="#fig_291">291</a>), and +is a common decorative motive on clubs made of bone of whale +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_285">[285]</span>(fig. <a href="#fig_298">298</a>). A related motive is found on spindle whorls (fig. <a href="#fig_296">296</a>). +It is also found on representative wood carvings, as on the eagle +design on a house post from the Fraser River Delta (Plate <a href="#plate_XIII">XIII</a> p. 288). +In the region still farther south, this ornament becomes more and +more important, as may be seen on dishes and spoons from the +Columbia River area. On these the circular design and central dot +also occur (fig. <a href="#fig_297">297</a>).</p> +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_298" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_311-312.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 298. Clubs made of bone of whale, Nootka. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_299" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_313-314.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 299. Clubs made of bone of whale, Nootka and coast of Salish. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A number of ancient specimens prove the existence of a fixed +art style in this region, representative, but differing in character from +the style of the Northwest coast. This is best illustrated by a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_286">[286]</span>series of war clubs. The fundamental type is a blade of a lenticular +cross section surmounted by a head resembling that of an eagle, +which bears on its head a bird headdress not unlike what is used +by the Nootka of modern times.<a id="FNanchor_115_114" href="#Footnote_115_114" class="fnanchor">[115]</a> In all the specimens represented +in figures <a href="#fig_298">298</a> and <a href="#fig_299">299</a> this fundamental form will be recognized, +although in many cases the outlines are so crude that the elements +of the composition are recognized with difficulty only. It is possible +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_287">[287]</span>that in a number of these carvings it was not the intent to represent +the eagle with bird headdress, but that the form is rather due to +the compelling influence of a standardized form that determined the +outlines of the subject of the representation. Common to these +clubs is also the central ornamental line ending near the point in a +circular ornament which is often given the form of a human head.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_115_114" href="#FNanchor_115_114" class="label">[115]</a> See Harlan I. Smith, Archaeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound, +Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol II, figs. 165-168.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figleft illowp35" id="fig_300" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_315.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 300. House posts, Lower + Fraser River. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Representations of animals in wood carving differ also in important +features from those of the northern region. The tendency to +ornament the whole body, the dislike of a plain background is not +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_288">[288]</span>found here. If we are right in assuming that the fullest development +of a rich ornamentation in the north is late, we might say +that in the south the ornamentation has not yet encroached upon +the whole background. The eye design, +double curve, the slit design are foreign +to this area. Instead of house posts carved +in the round, we find heavy posts of rectangular +cross section which bear on the +front figures carved in the round or in +high relief. Sometimes the post assumes +geometrical forms. A characteristic trait +of the human face in this region is the +sharp angle setting off the forehead from +the face. This is most pronounced in +the carvings of the Puget Sound region +(fig. <a href="#fig_300">300</a> and Plate <a href="#plate_XIV">XIV</a>).</p> + +<p>On Puget Sound animal representations +are used with great frequency in basketry, +particularly as ornamental borders. In +ancient times they were also applied to +hats (fig. <a href="#fig_301">301</a>, see also fig. <a href="#fig_72">72</a> p. 78). +This style seems to be entirely missing +in the north.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_XIII" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_316.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate XIII.</span></p> + + + House Post near Eburne, Fraser River Delta, British Columbia. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>At the present time the Kwakiutl apply +the symbolic style in house paintings, house +posts, and masks. The skill of the artist is +not inferior to that found among the northern tribes, but the subject +matter differs somewhat according to the difference in mythological +concepts. The distortions in painting are, if anything, more daring +than those of the Haida, but I have not observed to the same +degree the tendency to interlock various animal forms, as is done +on spoon handles and totem poles of the northern tribes. On totem +poles so far as these occur, and on house posts the single figures +are placed one on top of the other, but they remain separated. The +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_289">[289]</span>masks are painted as elaborately as those of the northern tribes. +Double masks and revolving attachments occur. In short, the decorative +art of those objects that are strictly related to use in totemic +and similar ceremonies, have the northern type, while objects of +every day life tend to have +geometric ornamentation. +The use of animal forms +on large dishes (see fig. +<a href="#fig_198">198</a>, p. 208) is a characteristic +trait of this region.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp55" id="fig_301" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_318_301.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 301. Basket, Lower Chehalis. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp55" id="fig_302" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_318_302.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 302. Designs on matting, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Historical tradition confirms +our view that the +northern art type is of +recent introduction among +the Kwakiutl. In ancient +times the walls of the +houses were built of horizontal, +overlapping boards +that did not admit painting, +except on separate planks. +Old Indians claim that, +until about 1860, the house +posts were heavy planks +with relief carving or painting,—like those known to us from Fraser +River, and that only masks were of the same type as those now in use.</p> + +<p>While realistic representations are rare among the northern tribes, +they are found quite frequently among the Kwakiutl. They are +principally caricatures that are made and exhibited for the purpose +of ridiculing a rival. A head used in a ceremonial performance has +been referred to before (fig. <a href="#fig_156">156</a> p. 185).</p> + +<figure class="figleft illowp60" id="fig_303" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_319.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 303. Woven hat of spruce root, Kwakiutl. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I have stated that in basketry and matting geometrical ornamentation +is used by all the tribes. It is the style of the woman’s art. +On decorated mats checker designs are made in black and red on +the background of natural color of cedar bark (fig. <a href="#fig_302">302</a>). More +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_290">[290]</span>elaborate are the patterns which occur on spruce root weaving, +particularly on hats. These are made by twining, and ornamental +lines are developed by the occasional skipping of two woof strands. +By this device lines are produced which appear raised over the +surface of the plain weaving. The most frequent designs which are +made in this way consist of a series of diamonds and of zig-zag +lines. Sometimes these +hats are also painted. +In these the woven +pattern disappears almost +completely under +the painted design +(fig. <a href="#fig_303">303</a>).</p> + +<p>On the coast of +Alaska we find the +highest development of +the geometric style.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_304" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_320.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 304. Decorative designs from Tlingit basketry. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp90" id="fig_305" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_322.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 305. Decorative designs from Tlingit basketry. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The patterns used on +these baskets consist of +angular forms, except +on modern placques, +and bear names.<a id="FNanchor_116_115" href="#Footnote_116_115" class="fnanchor">[116]</a> From +the way in which these are used we may infer that they have no +symbolic significance. I give here a selection of these. Fig. <a href="#fig_304">304</a> <i>a</i>, +<i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, patterns consisting of zig-zag lines, represent in this order: the +woodworm or the woodworm tracks (<i>a</i>), lightning (<i>b</i>), the butterfly (<i>c</i>). +The rectangle divided by an oblique line, (<i>d</i>), represents tracks of the +bear; the dark part of the rectangle may be interpreted as the sole +of the foot; the light part of the rectangle as the claws. The design (<i>e</i>) +is called the arrow; (<i>f</i>) the rainbow; (<i>g</i>) fire weed; and (<i>h</i>) the hood +of the raven. Fig. <a href="#fig_305">305</a> <i>a</i> shows various representations of the isosceles +triangle, some of which are identical with the forms occurring in +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_291"></a><a id="Page_292"></a>[292]</span>California. All of these are called head of the salmon-berry. The +designs <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, and <i>d</i>, are closely related; (<i>b</i>) is generally used on the +narrow central band which separates two broad design bands; +it is called “tying”. Flying geese are represented in (<i>c</i>); tracks of +geese in (<i>d</i>). The complicated design in (<i>e</i>) is called “raven tail”; +the relation between this name and the form is not clear; (<i>f</i>) shows +a number of representations of the wave. Designs (<i>g</i>) and (<i>h</i>) are +from circular placques; (<i>g</i>) represents the fern frond; (<i>h</i>) the +porpoise. In the last named case the relation between form and +name is obscure.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_116_115" href="#FNanchor_116_115" class="label">[116]</a> G. T. Emmons, The Basketry of the Tlingit, Memoirs American Museum of +Natural History. Vol. 3 (1903) pp. 229 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>I have little doubt that the designs are closely related to the +blanket patterns previously referred to and to the porcupine quill +embroidery of the tribes of the interior. The design fig. <a href="#fig_304">304</a> <i>h</i>, +for instance, is found in identical form on the lowest stripe of +the Bella Coola blanket on top of Plate <a href="#plate_XII">XII</a>. The arrangement +of patterns in blocks on these blankets is also similar to the +arrangement found in this type of basketry. In fact the technique +is a kind of embroidery in which the decorative material is wrapped +around the woof strand when the basket is being made. The materials +used are grasses and fern stems of contrasting color.</p> + +<p>The baskets are round, mostly with almost straight walls. The +diameter is very nearly equal to the height. On the majority of +baskets which are used for berrying and as general receptacles, the +patterns are applied in horizontal bands. The rim of the basket is +generally undecorated. The rim weave which holds the warp together, +is in most cases quite insignificant and does not give a +decorative effect. The only specimen of decorative band at the +upper rim, with which I am familiar, has no color embroidery but +has only a zig-zag decoration made by the process of twilling described +before, similar to the pattern fig. <a href="#fig_304">304</a> <i>h</i>. Most baskets are +decorated by a broad band parallel to the rim, which consists of +two wide stripes separated by a narrow one. These bands are +placed at a short distance from the upper rim. (Plate <a href="#plate_XIV">XIV</a>). The +distance is often about equal to the width of the central band. The +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_293"></a><a id="Page_294"></a>[294]</span>designs on the wide upper and lower bands are generally identical. +The central dividing band is in most cases decorated with small +elements arranged in zig-zag lines. In a fairly large number of cases, +only the two outer bands are embroidered, while the central band +remains undecorated. In a few cases the central band is reduced +to a single undecorated line of stitches <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: wo" id="wo">so</ins> that the impression is +conveyed of a single broad band encircling the whole basket. In +open work spoon baskets the central band is placed near the +middle of the basket, while the outer bands are moved to the +bottom and to the upper border. Although some of the designs +are of such a character that they may be used as continuous +horizontal bands, there is a marked tendency of dividing up the +circumference into a number of panels which are separated by +straight vertical lines.</p> + +<p>A considerable number of the baskets decorated with three bands +have either two or four “droppers”, and in a few cases the design +of the “dropper” is repeated over the upper design. The number +of repetitions of the design in the bands is quite irregular, some of +the large designs are repeated only twice. When there are many +repetitions of the design in the upper and lower band their distribution +is generally quite independent, that is, the upper and lower +design elements are not fitted the one over the other.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately there is not enough porcupine embroidery available +that will allow us to investigate in detail the relations between the +patterns used in this industry and in basketry. The designs here +described are akin to the geometrical basketry patterns of other +parts of the Pacific slope and to designs occurring in bead embroidery. +They are entirely foreign to the painting and carving +described in the previous pages.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_XIV" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_324.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate XIV.</span></p> + + + Tlingit Baskets. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Northwest Coast culture has exerted its influence over the tribes +both of the north and south. The woodwork of the Columbia +River region and of northern California has undoubtedly been stimulated +by its example. Although the style changes materially, the +technique of handling the wood and the relative abundance of wood +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_295">[295]</span>carving indicates the interrelation of these cultures. Taken in conjunction +with other features,—such as the peculiar type of correlation +of wealth and rank and the extensive use of standards of +value,—the historical relation seems firmly established. The art +style of woodwork does not exhibit a close affinity to the North +West Coast. We have shown that the older art of the Gulf of Georgia +is quite distinct from that of the North West Coast. The further +south we go the more meager become the vestiges of the symbolic +style here treated.</p> + +<p>In the north conditions are somewhat different. Even among the +northern Tlingit tribes some types of masks may be observed that +are conceptionally different from those found further south. They +are characterized by the attachment of small animal figures to the +face,—particularly on the forehead and cheeks. This usage is much +more frequent among the Eskimo tribes.<a id="FNanchor_117_116" href="#Footnote_117_116" class="fnanchor">[117]</a> Their masks tend to be +flat and appear like plastic representations of their paintings and +etchings: realistic forms of human or imaginary beings or of animals. +They have adopted from the North West Coast the attachment +of parts of the body to the face, while these parts,—such as +hands and feet, retain their realistic character. The attachment of +small animal forms to the face is quite frequent here. Its source +may perhaps be found in the application of animal heads to carved +objects, which is one of the principle features of the decorative art +of the Alaskan Eskimo. It is exemplified in the needle cases shown +in fig. <a href="#fig_119">119</a>, p. 125. The abundance of masks can hardly be understood +unless we assume that the coast people of the south exerted +a powerful influence over the Eskimo. The eastern Eskimo, among +whom this influence is lacking, have few masks of quite a different type.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_117_116" href="#FNanchor_117_116" class="label">[117]</a> Sie E. W. Nelson, The Eskimo about Bering Strait, 18<sup>th</sup> Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. +Ethn. (1899) Plates 95 et seq.; also the Athapascan masks from Anvik in J. W. +Chapman, Notes on the Tinneh tribe of Anvik, Congrès International des Americanistes +XV<sup>e</sup> session, Vol 2, pp. 7 et seq.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>The relation of the North West Coast art to that of the adjoining +plateaus of the interior deserves special consideration. The contrast +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_296">[296]</span>between the two is striking. A few of the tribes that have adopted, partially +at least, totemic ideas of the coast people, as the Lillooet, have taken over +with it a moderate amount of carving. A few that have fallen more fully +under the sway of the North West Coast culture, as the Bella Coola, +Babine, and a few of the Alaskan tribes near the coast of southern +Alaska, have also, to a great extent, adopted the art style of the coast.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="fig_306" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_327.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 306. <i>a</i>, Rawhide pouch, Salish or Chinook; <i>b</i>, Design from parfleche, + Fort Colville, Washington. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>As soon as we move farther inland we find an art that, in its +essential characteristics, is subject to the Plains art. The style and +decoration of the clothing are essentially those of the Plains. Rude +pictography is used extensively. There is hardly any attempt to fit +the pictographic representation to the decorative field that serves +merely as the background on which the representative design is +conveniently placed. Most of the geometric patterns that do occur +are closely related to eastern forms. A rawhide pouch from the +interior of British Columbia (fig. <a href="#fig_28_30">28</a>, p. 36) may serve as an +example. On parfleches and rawhide pouches from Fort Colville +and from Columbia River (fig. <a href="#fig_306">306</a>) we find the same designs that +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_297">[297]</span> +are characteristic of eastern paintings on rawhide (see figs. <a href="#fig_144">144</a>-<a href="#fig_146">146</a> +pp. 170-172). Analogous forms are found in bone carvings +from the Tahltan in Alaska (fig. <a href="#fig_307">307</a>). In the southern parts of the +plateaus of British Columbia, simple lines and circles with center +are the most common decorative pattern on bone and on wood. +Representative sculpture is rare although a few ancient specimens +have been found. +The archaeological +remains prove that +at an early time the +same art type prevailed +in the Delta +of Fraser River. +The symbolism of +the patterns is very +weak, but seems +analogous to that +found in the east.</p> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_307" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_328_307.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 307. Scraper of bone, Tahltan. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figright illowp60" id="fig_308" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_328_308.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + Fig. 308. Detail of imbricated basketry. + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Decorative art is +most highly developed +in basketry. The +basketry of the Coast tribes is made by twining or weaving, but the +highly decorated basketry of the interior is exclusively of the coiled +type. Only among the Sahaptin and other tribes to the southeast do +we find elaborately decorated twined bags. The twined weaving of the +interior of British Columbia is largely undecorated or bears a few +lines set off in lighter color. The coiled weaving is decorated by +imbrication, a method peculiar to that part of the plateaus extending +from the Columbia River to Chilcotin (fig. <a href="#fig_308">308</a>). In this area a +number of decorative art styles have developed. These appear +most clearly on the burden baskets. The southern baskets are +round and flaring, those of southern British Columbia are angular +in cross section, those of the north oblong and of irregular form. +The southern baskets are decorated all over with designs resembling +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_298">[298]</span>Californian patterns. Those of the Thompson River have design +areas set off against an undecorated background. The designs are +made by imbrication and extend over the whole side of the basket, +evenly on all sides. The Lillooet baskets are more flaring than +those of the Thompson. The coils are wider and the decorative +field is arranged in a different manner. The imbrication is confined +to the upper two-thirds of the basket while the lower part remains +undecorated, except that there are frequently two hangers on the +wide sides which may be compared to the hangers on Tlingit baskets, +described before. I am doubtful whether there is an historical +connection between the two, notwithstanding their striking similarity. +The Indians suggest that the hangers may have developed from the +earlier use of birch bark baskets. These were often wrapped at the +upper part with buckskin the lower portion of which hung down +freely in fringes, so that the droppers would represent the fringes. +Many of the Lillooet designs are large. (Plate <a href="#plate_XV">XV</a>).</p> + +<p>The Chilcotin type differs from the preceding by the small size of +the coil and a distinctive form, the narrow ends being higher than +the middle of the long sides. The treatment of the decorative field +is similar to that used by the Tlingit. The ornamentation consists of +three bands; the upper and the lower ones wide, bearing the same +kind of decorative design and the central one narrower and either +undecorated or showing a design of a different character. Arrangements +of this kind are used so frequently that is seems hardly +justifiable to consider them as proof of an historical connection between +Tlingit and Chilcotin basketry. We find similar arrangements +for instance in the pouches of the Woodland Indians referred to on +p. 175, figs. <a href="#fig_149_150">149, 150</a>.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="plate_XV" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_330.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Plate XV.</span></p> + + + Imbricated Baskets from British Columbia and Washington. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_299">[299]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="LITERATURE_MUSIC_AND_DANCE">LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND DANCE.</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">We shall now turn to a consideration of literature, music and dance. +It is a noticeable fact that a rich literary art is much more universally +distributed than well developed decorative art. While among +tribes like the Bushman and the eastern Eskimo very few manufactured +objects of artistic value are found, these same tribes produce +an abundance of literary work. Volumes of Eskimo lore have +been collected and if it did not require a most intimate knowledge +of the people and an endless amount of patience to collect songs +and poems, their number would undoubtedly equal that of tales. +The collections of Bushman lore are also quite extended. I believe +the reason for this difference is not far to seek. Decorative art +requires rest and quiet, a stationary abode. There must be opportunity +to continue steadily the work which requires the use of tools; +or at least there must be a chance to lay it aside and to take it +up again. The life of hunters is not favorable to the prosecution +of such work. First of all the weapons of the hunter must be kept +in order. The supply of provisions is generally so scanty or the +possibility of laying by stores for future use is so limited, that the +hunter is compelled to spend the greater part of every day in +pursuit of the game. Little time remains for domestic work. +Furthermore when camp is shifted which is frequently necessary, +bulky, half finished work can be carried along with difficulty only. +It is, therefore, not surprising that the household goods of the +hunter are few in number and easily transported. The property of +a Bushman family might be carried in two hands.</p> + +<p>Quite different are conditions under which literary work and +music develop. It might be imagined that the hunter has just as +little time for poetic work, as for the manufacture of decorated +articles. This opinion is based on an erroneous conception of the +work of the hunter. He is not all the time following strenuously +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_300">[300]</span>the tracks of the game, but often he resorts to trapping, or he sits +still, waiting for the game to appear. The Eskimo, for instance, sits +for hours by the breathing-hole of the seal. During such times his +fancy is free to wander and many of his songs take shape during +these moments. There are other times of enforced idleness in +which manual work is impossible but when the people may give +free range to their fancy. An instance of this stands out clearly in +my mind: An Eskimo youth was carried away in the fall on the +drifting ice. After a few days he succeeded in reaching land. +During these days of danger and privation he composed a song in +which he mocked his own misfortunes and the hardships he had +endured, a song which appealed to the fancy of the people and +which soon became popular in all the villages.<a id="FNanchor_118_117" href="#Footnote_118_117" class="fnanchor">[118]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_118_117" href="#FNanchor_118_117" class="label">[118]</a> See Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 7, p. 50.</p></div> +</div> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“Aya, I am joyful; this is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Aya, there is nothing but ice around me, that is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Aya, I am joyful; this is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">My country is nothing but slush, that is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Aya, I am joyful; this is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Aya, when, indeed, will this end? this is good!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I am tired of watching and waking, this is good!”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>We must remember that the first condition for the development +of artistic handicraft is leisure. No matter how strong the art +impulse may be, it cannot find expression so long as man’s time is +entirely taken up by procuring the barest necessities of life. The +paleolithic hunter who painted on the walls of the caves must have +been able to spare sufficient time from the labor of getting his food +supply to devote himself to the joy of painting the animals of the +chase. We recognize in a study of the art products of each people +that the amount they produce is in direct relation to the amount of +their leisure. Therefore tribes that procure their main food supply +in one season and store it up for the rest of the year and who +enjoy, therefore, seasons of leisure, will be found to be most productive +in works of art as well as in ceremonial affairs and other +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_301">[301]</span>manifestations of social life that do not contribute to the mere need +of food and shelter.</p> + +<p>These conditions are more easily fulfilled for those arts that do +not require manual labor than for those based on industrial occupations; +hence the wider distribution of literary art.</p> + +<p>The two fundamental forms of literature, song and tale, are +found universally and must be considered the primary form of +literary activity. Poetry without music, that is to say forms of +literary expression of fixed rhythmic form, are found only in +civilized communities, except perhaps in chanted formulas. In +simpler cultural forms the music of language alone does not seem +to be felt as an artistic expression, while fixed rhythms that are +sung occur everywhere.</p> + +<p>We may even recognize that in all parts of the world songs are +found in which the words are subordinated to music. As we sing +tunes without words, either because the words are not known,—or, +more significantly, on a refrain, on vocables consisting of syllables +without meaning,—so songs carried along on a meaningless burden +are found in all parts of the globe. They are not often recorded +because the collection of material of this kind is quite novel, but +the data that we have in hand prove that the connection between +song and burden is universal. The Eskimo have songs carried +along on the syllables <i>amna aya</i>, <i>iya aya</i>, and other similar ones. +In some cases there is a certain emotional significance inherent +in the burden, as on the Northwest coast of America where the +songs refer to different supernatural beings, each having its own +characteristic syllables: the cannibal spirit <i>ham ham</i>, the grizzly +bear <i>hei hei</i> and so on. According to the usual definition of poetry +we should perhaps exclude these songs, but that is impossible because +the transition from songs carried along by the burden alone +and others that contain significant words is quite gradual. In many +cases a single word is introduced at a definite point of the tune +and the verses contain each one single word. This may be the +name of the supernatural being to which the song refers.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_302">[302]</span></p> +<p>Thus we have in British Columbia</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Ham ham hamaya, He-who-travels-from-one-end-of-the-world-to-the-other</div> +<div class="verse indent34">ham ham.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ham ham hamaya, The-great-cannibal-of-the-north-end-of-the-world,</div> +<div class="verse indent34">ham ham.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ham ham hamaya, He-who-carries-corpses-to-be-his-food,</div> +<div class="verse indent34">ham ham.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>In other songs the significant words are more elaborate. They +are phrases fitted to the tunes, often by doing violence to the +ordinary forms of the words. The words are controlled by the +tunes. I might imitate this in the following way:</p> + +<p>Instead of “I saw the great spirit travelling about”. We might have</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">I sawhaw the greaheat sp’rit tra’ling ’bout, ham ham.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>This process is not quite unfamiliar to us in so far as we use the +apostrophe for syllables that in ordinary speech are not slurred, +when we expand a long vowel over several tones, when we utilise +archaic pronunciations for the sake of the meter, or when wrong +accents are introduced. Disregard for the words is found also in borrowed +songs which are sung in a language that is not understood +and in which the words (which are usually mispronounced) have only +the value of a burden that may be connected with a certain emotion +determined by the use of the song. All these forms are found everywhere +and must therefore be considered the foundations of poetry.</p> + +<p>Primitive poetry is primarily lyric, in many cases dithyrambic, +and elements which express definite coherent ideas are, in all probability, +later developments. Perhaps we may see here an analogy +to the growth of language. In the animal world cries are primarily +reactions to emotions and only indirectly designative. It seems +likely that in human speech the spontaneous emotional cry preceded +the designative and so much more the predicative expression, not +by any means in the sense that the exclamation accounts for the +origin of organized speech, but that it is probably the first form of +articulation.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_303">[303]</span></p> +<p>It must not be assumed that the control of the word by music +is characteristic of all primitive song. On the contrary, in recitatives +which are quite common, the words are often controlling and musical +phrases are added or omitted whenever the words require it. +Among the Sioux Indians we find often both tendencies; the words +adapted to the tunes and the tune, on its part, adjusted to the words.<a id="FNanchor_119_118" href="#Footnote_119_118" class="fnanchor">[119]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_119_118" href="#FNanchor_119_118" class="label">[119]</a> Frances Densmore, Teton Sioux Music, Bull. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 61, Washington, +1918; see, for instance No. 38, p. 162.</p></div> +</div> +<p>We might express the results of our considerations in stating +that song is older than poetry and that poetry has gradually emancipated +itself from music.</p> + +<p>The relation between music, words and dance are of a similar +character. Primitive literary expression is often, though not by any +means always, accompanied by some kind of motor activity; or +certain kinds of motions may release articulations that take the +form of song or of spoken words. Strong, but controlled emotion +finds utterance in movements of the body and in articulation, and +emotional speech releases similar movements. This may be inferred +from the frequent association of song and dance, of song and games, +and of that of gestures and lively speech. Dance has always remained +associated with music, but with the emancipation of poetry music +has lost its close association with the spoken word.</p> + +<p>Primitive artistic prose has two important forms: narrative and +oratory. The form of modern prose is largely determined by the +fact that it is read, not spoken, while primitive prose is based on +the art of oral delivery and is, therefore, more closely related to +modern oratory than to the printed literary style. The stylistic +difference between the two forms is considerable.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately most primitive prose has been recorded in European +languages only, and it is impossible to determine the accuracy of the +rendering. In most of the records there is an obvious attempt to +adapt it to the European literary style. Even when the material +is available in the original text we may assume that, at least in the +majority of cases, it does not reach the standard of excellence of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_304">[304]</span>the art of native narrative. The difficulty of phonetic rendering of +foreign languages requires such slowness of dictation that the artistic +style necessarily suffers. The number of collectors who possess +complete mastery of the languages of the natives is altogether too +small. The best approximation to the art of narrative of primitive +people is probably found in those cases in which educated natives +write down the texts, or in the records taken down by missionaries +who in long years of personal, intimate contact with the people have +acquired complete control of their language, and who are willing to +give us just what they hear.</p> + +<p>As an example of the difference in style between the free rendering +of a story told in English by an interpreter, and the translation +of a native text I give part of the Twin-Hero story of Sia, as +told by M. C. Stevenson, and the same story as dictated to me in +Laguna. Mrs. Stevenson<a id="FNanchor_120_119" href="#Footnote_120_119" class="fnanchor">[120]</a> tells as follows: Upon visiting the plaza +the twins found a large gathering and the housetops were crowded +with those looking at the dance. The boys who approached the +plaza from a narrow street in the village, stood for a time at the +entrance. The one remarked, “I guess all the people are looking at +us and thinking we are very poor boys; see how they pass back +and forth and do not speak to us;” but after a while he said, “We +are a little hungry; let us walk around and see where we can find +something to eat.” They looked in all the houses facing upon the +plaza and saw feasting within, but no one invited them to enter +and eat, and though they inspected every house in the village, they +were invited into but one. At this house the woman said, “Boys, +come in and eat; I guess you are hungry.” After the repast they +thanked her, saying, “It was very good.” Then the one said, “You, +woman, and you, man,” addressing her husband, “you and all your +family are good. We have eaten at your house; we give you many +thanks; and now listen to what I have to say. I wish you and all +your children to go off a distance to another house; to a house +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_305">[305]</span>which stands alone; the round house off from the village. All of +you stay there for a while.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_120_119" href="#FNanchor_120_119" class="label">[120]</a> Matilda Coxe Stevenson, The Sia, 11th Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology, +Washington, 1894, pp. 54-55.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The Laguna version is as follows:<a id="FNanchor_121_120" href="#Footnote_121_120" class="fnanchor">[121]</a></p> + +<p>Long ago.—Eh.—Long ago in the north in Whitehouse lived +the people. At that time they had a war dance. At that time, when +they were dancing, Salt-Woman and her grandsons, the Twin-Heroes, +were travelling in this direction searching for a town, yes, some +place where nobody would make dirt, searching for good water +standing on the ground; for that they were searching. At the time +they reached Whitehouse the people were having a war dance. +They arrived at the east end of the town, and they climbed up the +ladder, entered after having climbed down, but nobody said anything +to them. Then they climbed up and out again. Again they climbed +down into a house on the west and again they entered, climbing +downward. Here also nobody invited them in and nobody gave +them to eat. Then they climbed up going out and climbed down +the ladder. Then the grandmother spoke thus, “Grandchildren, are +you hungry?” said she to them. Then the Twin-Heroes spoke, +“Yes,” they said to her. Then the grandmother, Salt-Woman, spoke +thus, “Now let us go for the last time, climb up the house to the +west.” Thus said Salt-Woman. They went westward and climbed +up, then they climbed down the ladder and entered. When they +had entered the Parrot People were about to eat. They said, +“How is everything?”—“It is well,” said the Parrot People. +“Sit down,” said the Parrot People. Then they sat down and +soon they were satisfied. After a while the one who was the +mother of the Parrot People spoke thus, “Give them to eat,” said +she. Then they gave them to eat and they dipped out the deer +meat with a chamber vessel. Then the one who was the mother +spoke thus, “Take this; eat,” said she. Then Salt-Woman put her +hand into the soup that had been dipped out and she stirred it +with her hand and they ate and they were satisfied. Then the one +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_306">[306]</span>who was the mother of the Parrot People took it away. She spoke +thus, “I wonder why this soup is so different,” said she. Then +she tasted it. Then the one who was the mother spoke thus, “Oh +my, that soup is very sweet,” said the one who was the mother. +Then Salt-Woman spoke thus, “Behold, go on, dip it out and give +it to them and eat,” said Salt-Woman. Then she dipped out the +soup and passed it about. They sat down there together. Then +Salt-Woman took scabs from her body (which was salt) and she +put the salt in for them. Then Salt-Woman spoke thus, “Let us +continue to stir it,” said Salt-Woman. Then they stirred it and ate. +Now Salt-Woman spoke thus, “I tell you this,” said Salt-Woman, +“I am Salt-Woman, there is no sickness on my body. Is not this +my body pure salt?” said Salt-Woman. “Now I also tell you this,” +said Salt-Woman. “How many children have you and how many +families of Parrot People live here?” said Salt-Woman. “Now go +ahead and come in this direction,” said she, “for I am very grateful +because you gave me to eat,” said Salt-Woman. Now the one who +was the mother of the Parrot People went to call her relatives. +She brought the whole number of them. Then she took them +down and Salt-Woman spoke thus, “Are these your relatives, the +Parrot People?”—“Yes,” said the one who was the mother. +“Indeed,” she said, “Go ahead, take this basket and give it to me,” +said Salt-Woman. Then she gave the basket to Salt-Woman and +salt came off from her arms and from her feet. Then she picked +it up and put it into the basket. “Take this,” said Salt-Woman, +“with this you will season what you eat.” Then again she spoke +thus, “Enough,” she said, “it is good, thank you. Now we shall +climb up and go out from here. You stay here,” said Salt-Woman, +“then, when the Twin-Heroes are ready we shall open the door +after a while.” Thus spoke Salt-Woman. Then they climbed up +and went away and climbed down again. After they had climbed +down outside the children came and looked at them for a while. +The Twin-Heroes were playing thereabouts with a shuttlecock. Then +the children spoke thus, “Boy,” said they, “go ahead, bring me +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_307">[307]</span>this shuttlecock,” said the children. Then the younger one of the +Twin-Heroes spoke thus, “Go ahead,” said he, “stand there to the +south under the cotton wood tree.” The children went southward. +They arrived there. Then the children spoke thus, “Go ahead,” +they said. “Now look out,” said the elder one of the Twin-Heroes, +“I throw the shuttlecock southward.” When it arrived at the south +where they stood, the shuttlecock fell down between them. Then +all were turned into chaparral jays. All flew upward. Then Salt-Woman +and her grandchildren went to the south. They arrived in +the south. Then the elder one of the Twin-Heroes stood up. He +took up his shuttlecock in his turn. The younger one said, “Now, +look out, it is my turn. Let me make the shuttlecock fly to the +north.”—“Go ahead,” said the elder one. The younger one +made the shuttlecock fly northward. In the north it reached the +plaza and when the shuttlecock fell down the people were transformed +into stones. Then Salt-Woman spoke thus, “Enough,” said she, “Now +go ahead to the house of the Parrot People and open the door.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_121_120" href="#FNanchor_121_120" class="label">[121]</a> Franz Boas, Keresan Texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, +Vol. 8, p. 17.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Another example may not be amiss. Dr. Ruth Benedict recorded +the following as part of the creation myth from a Zuni Indian who +has a good command of English:</p> + +<p>“The Two came to the fourth world. It was dark there; they +could see nothing. They met a man; he was naked and his body +was covered with green slime, he had a tail, and a horn on his +forehead. He took them to his people. The Two said to them, +“In the upper world there is no one to worship the sun. He has +sent us down to you to take you out to the world above.” They +said, “We are willing. In this world we cannot see one another, we +step upon one another, we urinate upon one another, we spit upon +one another, we throw refuse upon one another. It is nasty here, +we do not want to stay. We have been waiting for someone to +lead us out. But you must go to the priest of the north; we want +to know what he has to say.”</p> + +<p>They took them to the priest of the north. He said to them, +“What is it that you have come to say?”—“We want you to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_308">[308]</span>come out into the upper world.”—“We are willing to go. In +this world we cannot see, we step upon one another, we urinate +upon one another, we throw refuse upon another, we spit upon +one another. It is nasty here, we do not want to stay. We have +been waiting for someone to lead us out. But you must go to the +priest of the west; we want to know what he has to say.” (This +is repeated for the priests of the six directions.)</p> + +<p>Cushing<a id="FNanchor_122_121" href="#Footnote_122_121" class="fnanchor">[122]</a> has rendered the same incident as follows:</p> + +<p>“Anon in the nethermost of the four cave-wombs of the world, +the seed of men and the creatures took form and increased; even +as within eggs in warm places worms speedily appear, which growing, +presently burst their shells and become as may happen, birds, +tadpoles, or serpents, so did men and all creatures grow manifoldly +and multiply in many kinds. Thus the lowermost womb or cave-world, +which was Anosin tehuli (the womb of sooty depth or of +growth-germination, because it was the place of first formation and +dark as a chimney at night time, foul too, as the internals of the +belly) thus did it become overfilled with being. Everywhere were +unfinished creatures, crawling like reptiles one over another in filth +and black darkness, crowding thickly together and treading each +other, one spitting on another or doing other indecency, insomuch +that loud became their murmurings and lamentations, until many +among them sought to escape, growing wiser and more manlike.”</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_122_121" href="#FNanchor_122_121" class="label">[122]</a> Frank H. Cushing, Zuni Creation Myths, 13th Annual Report of the Bureau of +American Ethnology, p. 381.</p></div> +</div> +<p>I think these examples demonstrate that it is not easy to +discover from published material the stylistic pattern of primitive +narrative. Sometimes the rendering is bald and dry owing to the +difficulties of expression that the interpreter cannot overcome; sometimes +elaborated in a superimposed literary style that does not +belong to the original.</p> + +<p>In free prose narrative particular stress is laid upon the completeness +of the succession of events. Both Pueblo and Kwakiutl +informants criticize tales from this point of view. A Pueblo will +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_309">[309]</span>say, “You cannot say, ‘he entered the house,’ for he must first +climb up the ladder, then down into the house. He must greet those +present properly and receive the proper courteous reply.” None of +these steps may be omitted. This is illustrated by the example +of the Laguna tale referred to before (see p. <a href="#Page_305">305</a>). The Kwakiutl +cannot say, “Then he spoke,” but they would say “Then he arose, +spoke and said.” They do not allow a person to arrive at a place +without first letting him start and travel. An epic diffusiveness, an +insistence on details is characteristic of most free primitive narrative.</p> + +<p>Besides these free elements, primitive prose contains passages of +fixed form which are, to a great extent, the source of its attractiveness +to the hearer. Quite often these passages consist of conversation +between the actors and in these, deviations from the fixed formula, +are not permitted. In other cases they are of rhythmic form +and must be considered poetry, chants or songs rather than prose.</p> + +<p>In almost all reliable collections the fixed, formal parts are of considerable +importance. In a few cases, as among the Wailaki of +California, the connective text disappears almost completely.</p> + +<p>In contrast to the fullness of the free narrative these formal parts +are apt to be so brief that they are obscure unless the significance +of the story is known to the hearers. Examples of these are the +brief tales of the Eskimo. In Cumberland Sound I recorded the +following example:<a id="FNanchor_123_122" href="#Footnote_123_122" class="fnanchor">[123]</a> a tale of a woman and the Spirit of the +Singing-House.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p>“Where is its owner? Where is its master? Has the singing-house +an owner? Has the singing-house a master? It has no +owner.”—“Here he is, there he is.”—“Where are his +feet? Where are the calves of his legs? Where are his +knees? Where are his thighs?”—“Here they are, there +they are.”—“Where is his stomach?”—“Here it is, there +it is.”—“Where is his chest? Where is his arm? Where +is his neck? Where is his head?”—“Here it is, there it +is.” He had no hair.</p> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_310">[310]</span></p> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_123_122" href="#FNanchor_123_122" class="label">[123]</a> Journal of American Folk-lore, Vol. 7, (1894), p. 45.</p></div> +</div> +<p>This means that the woman felt for the supernatural owner of +the singing-house. He is supposed to have bandy legs, no hair +and no occipital bone. To touch his soft head is immediate death.</p> + +<p>The same observation may be made in formulas of the +Chukchee.<a id="FNanchor_124_123" href="#Footnote_124_123" class="fnanchor">[124]</a></p> + + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p>“I call Raven. My abdomen I make into a bay. The bay is +frozen. Icebound rubbish is there. All this rubbish is frozen +in the ice of the bay. It is the disease of my stomach. Oh, you +my stomach, you are full of pain. I make you into a frozen +bay, into an old ice floe, into a bad ice floe.</p> + +<p>“Oh, Oh! I call to Raven. You Raven travel around from very +remote times. I want your assistance. What are you going to +do with this bay that is frozen? Mischievous people made it +freeze; you have a strong beak, what are you going to do?”</p> +</div> +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_124_123" href="#FNanchor_124_123" class="label">[124]</a> W. Bogoras, Publications of Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. VIII, +Chukchee Texts, p. 133.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Sometimes these parts of tales are in an archaic form, or in a +foreign language, so that they may be quite unintelligible. Their +impressiveness rests on the form and the general emotional trend +of the passages in which they occur.</p> + +<p>When such passages are discourse they are probably the best +material for the study of literary style.</p> + +<p>From these remarks let us turn to a few general characteristics +of literary style, first of all to a consideration of rhythm and repetition.</p> + +<p>The investigation of primitive narrative as well as of poetry +proves that repetition, particularly rhythmic repetition, is one of its +fundamental, esthetic traits.</p> + +<p>It is not easy to form a just opinion regarding the rhythmic character +of formal prose; in part because the rhythmic sense of primitive +people is much more highly developed than our own. The +simplification of the rhythm of modern folk song, and of poetry intended +to appeal to popular taste, has dulled our feeling for rhythmic +form. I have referred to this question before when discussing +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_311">[311]</span>the complexity of rhythm in decorative art. It requires careful +study to understand the structure of primitive rhythm, more so in +prose than in song, because in this case the help of the melodic +pattern is lacking.</p> + +<p>Rhythmic repetition of contents and form is found commonly in +primitive narrative. For example, the tales of the Chinook Indians +are often so constructed that five brothers, one after another, have +the same adventure. The four elder ones perish while the youngest +one emerges safe and successful. The tale is repeated verbatim for +all the brothers, and its length, which to our ear and to our taste +is intolerable, probably gives pleasure by the repeated form.<a id="FNanchor_125_124" href="#Footnote_125_124" class="fnanchor">[125]</a> Conditions +are quite similar in European fairy tales relating to the +fates of three brothers, two of whom perish or fail in their +tasks, while the youngest one succeeds. Similar repetitions are +found in the German tale of Redridinghood, in the widely spread +European story of the rooster who goes to bury his mate, or in +the story of the three bears. In Oriental tales the incidents of the +tale are sometimes repeated verbatim being retold by one of the heroes.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_125_124" href="#FNanchor_125_124" class="label">[125]</a> Franz Boas, Chinook Texts, Bull. Bur. of Ethnol. Washington D. C., (1894), +pp. 9 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p>A few additional examples taken from the narratives of foreign +people will illustrate the general occurrence of the tendency to repetition. +In the Basuto tale called Kumonngoe a man leads his daughter +into the wilderness where she is to be devoured by a cannibal. +On the way he meets three animals and the son of a chief. In +each case the same conversation ensues. “Where are you leading +your daughter?”—“Ask herself, she is grown up.” She replies:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“I have given to Hlabakoane, Kumonngoe,<a id="FNanchor_126_125" href="#Footnote_126_125" class="fnanchor">[126]</a></div> +<div class="verse indent0">To the herd of our cattle Kumonngoe</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I thought our cattle were going to stay in the kraal, Kumonngoe,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">And so I gave him my father’s Kumonngoe.”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_126_125" href="#FNanchor_126_125" class="label">[126]</a> The girl had a brother named Hlabakoane, to whom she had given a magical +food, called Kumonngoe, that belonged to her father and that the girl had been +forbidden to touch. E. Jacottet, The Treasury of Basuto Lore, + Vol. 1, (1908), p. 114.</p></div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_312">[312]</span></p> +<p>In an Omaha tale<a id="FNanchor_127_126" href="#Footnote_127_126" class="fnanchor">[127]</a> of a Snake-Man it is related that a man flees +from a serpent. Three helpers in succession give him moccasins +which, on the following morning return of their own accord +to their owners, and every time the same conversation is +repeated. When the serpent goes in pursuit it asks every animal +for information in exactly the same words. In a tradition of +the Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island the same formula is repeated +forty times together with the description of the same ceremonial. +In the tales of the Pueblo Indians the same incident is repeated +four times as happening to four sisters; the yellow, red, blue, and +white girls. In a Siberian tale of the Hare we hear that a hunter +hides under the branches of a fallen willow tree. One hare after +another appears in order to browse, espies the hunter and runs +away. In a Papua tale from New Guinea the birds come one after +another and try to peck open the stomach of a drowned person so +as to let run out the water that he has swallowed. Still more +markedly appears this type of repetition in a tale from New Ireland. +The birds try to throw the casuary off from the branch of a +tree on which he is perched. In order to accomplish this, one +after another alights on the same branch next to the casuary but +nearer the trunk. Thus he is compelled to move out farther and +farther until finally he drops down.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_127_126" href="#FNanchor_127_126" class="label">[127]</a> James Owen Dorsey, The Thegiha Language, Contributions to North American +Ethnology, Vol. VI, (1890), Washington D. C., p. 284.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Much more striking are the rhythmic repetitions in songs. Polynesian +genealogies offer an excellent example. Thus we find in Hawaii +the following song:<a id="FNanchor_128_127" href="#Footnote_128_127" class="fnanchor">[128]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Lii-ku-honua, the man,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ola-ku-honua, the woman,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Kumo-honua, the man,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Lalo-honua, the woman,</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>and so on through sixteen pairs.</p> +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_128_127" href="#FNanchor_128_127" class="label">[128]</a> Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore. Mem. Bernice +Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. VI, Honolulu, (1919), p. 365.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_313">[313]</span></p> +<p>Or in a cradlesong of the Kwakiutl Indians:<a id="FNanchor_129_128" href="#Footnote_129_128" class="fnanchor">[129]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“When I am a man, then I shall be a hunter, o father! ya ha ha ha.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">When I am a man, then I shall be a harpooneer, o father! ya ha ha ha.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">When I am a man, then I shall be a canoe-builder, o father! ya ha ha ha.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">When I am a man, then I shall be a carpenter, o father! ya ha ha ha.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">When I am a man, then I shall be an artisan, o father! ya ha ha ha.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">That we may not be in want, o father, ya ha ha ha.”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_129_128" href="#FNanchor_129_128" class="label">[129]</a> Franz Boas, Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, 35th An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., +Washington, 1921, p. 1310.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In the Eskimo song of the raven and the geese, the raven sings:<a id="FNanchor_130_129" href="#Footnote_130_129" class="fnanchor">[130]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Oh, I am drowning, help me!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Oh, now the waters reach my great ankles.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Oh, I am drowning, help me!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Oh, now the waters reach my great knees.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>and so on through all the parts of the body, up to the eyes.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_130_129" href="#FNanchor_130_129" class="label">[130]</a> W. Thalbitzer, The Ammassalik Eskimo, Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. XL, +p. 211. Compare before p. 309, for a similar formula from Cumberland Sound.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Quite remarkable is the analogy between this song and the following +Australian war song:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Spear his forehead</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Spear his chest</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Spear his liver</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Spear his heart, etc.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>Rhythmic variations of a similar type develop also in oratory +when a number of persons are addressed in the same formal way: +As an example may serve the following address in a Kwakiutl speech:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Now you will witness, Northerners,<a id="FNanchor_131_130" href="#Footnote_131_130" class="fnanchor">[131]</a> the dance of Many-on-Fire,</div> +<div class="verse indent26">the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Now you will witness, Great Kwakiutl,<a href="#Footnote_131_130" class="fnanchor">[131]</a> the dance of Many-on-Fire,</div> +<div class="verse indent26">the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Now you will witness, Rich Side,<a href="#Footnote_131_130" class="fnanchor">[131]</a> the dance of Many-on-Fire,</div> +<div class="verse indent26">the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents,</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_131_130" href="#FNanchor_131_130" class="label">[131]</a> + These are names of tribes, Columbia Contributions to Anthropology, III, p. 140.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_314">[314]</span></p> +<p class="noindent">or:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“I have come Northerners; I have come Great Kwakiutl,</div> +<div class="verse indent23">I have come Rich Side.”<a id="FNanchor_132_131" href="#Footnote_132_131" class="fnanchor">[132]</a></div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_132_131" href="#FNanchor_132_131" class="label">[132]</a> Ibid., p. 142.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The repetitions discussed so far are rhythmic in form, varied in +contents. They may be compared to an orderly succession of decorative +motives that agree in the plan of the unit, but vary in details. +In poetry rhythmic repetitions of identical formal units are +frequent. These occur in all songs without words, consisting of +vocables only. An example of this is a Kwakiutl canoe song in +which every syllable is sung with one stroke of the paddles:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent2">Aw, ha ya ha ya hä</div> +<div class="verse indent6">ha ya he ya ä</div> +<div class="verse indent6">he ya ha ya ä</div> +<div class="verse indent2">A, ha ya ha ya hä</div> +<div class="verse indent0">aw, ha ya he ya hä</div> +<div class="verse indent6">he ya ha ya hei</div> +<div class="verse indent14">ya hä</div> +<div class="verse indent6">hä hä wo wo wo.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>They are also found in introductions to many songs in which the +tune is carried by vocables as an introduction to the words of the +song:<a id="FNanchor_133_132" href="#Footnote_133_132" class="fnanchor">[133]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Mai hamama.</div> +<div class="verse indent2">Haimama hamamai hamamamai.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Hamama hamamayamai</div> +<div class="verse indent2">Haimama hamamai hamamamai.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_133_132" href="#FNanchor_133_132" class="label">[133]</a> The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians; +Rep. U. S. National Mus. for 1895, Washington, 1897, p. 703.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Rhythm is not confined to the larger units, but is applied as an +artistic device in the detailed structure. In exhortative speech some +tribes develop a rhythmic form by adding a strongly accented syllable +to each word. The Kwakiutl use the strongly accented ending +ai for this purpose and I may imitate the impression of their +speech by saying, Welcome-ai! brothers-ai! at my feast-ai! Here +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_315">[315]</span>the time for each word group ending in <i>ai</i> is approximately equal, +or the words leading up to the ending <i>ai</i> are at least pronounced +with great rapidity when they contain a longer phrase.</p> + +<p>In the recital of myths rhythmic structure is sometimes attained +by the addition of meaningless syllables that transform the recital +into a chant. Thus the Fox Indians will add in the recital of the +Culture Hero legend, the syllables nootchee, nootchee. A. L. Kroeber +and Leslie Spier tell us that the myths of Southern California are +chanted. Edward Sapir has observed the Song recitative in Paiute +mythology, each animal speaking according to a definite rhythm and +tune to which the text is adjusted.<a id="FNanchor_134_133" href="#Footnote_134_133" class="fnanchor">[134]</a> I have recorded an Eskimo +tale from Cumberland Sound in which the travels of the hero +are recorded in a chant with interspersed melodic phrases.<a id="FNanchor_135_134" href="#Footnote_135_134" class="fnanchor">[135]</a> In +wails the repetition of the formal cry of moaning at short intervals +and the rapid, even pronunciation of the recital creates rhythmic +structure.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_134_133" href="#FNanchor_134_133" class="label">[134]</a> Song Recitative in Paiute Mythology, Journal American Folk-lore, Vol. 23, pp. +455 et seq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_135_134" href="#FNanchor_135_134" class="label">[135]</a> F. Boas, Bull. A. M. N. H. Vol. 15, pp. 335, 340, tune in Sixth Annual Report +Bureau of Ethnology, p. 655, no. 13.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Much stricter than in prose is the rhythmic structure of song. +It is often assumed that regularity of musical rhythm, which is found +in most primitive music, is due to the multiplicity of motor actions +connected with the music, particularly to the close relation between +music and dance. It is true that primitive song is often accompanied +by movements of the body,—a swinging of the whole trunk, movements +of head, feet, and arms; hand clapping and stamping; but it +is an error to assume that for these the same synchronism prevails +to which we are accustomed. With us the stamping and clapping +of hands coincides with the accent of the song. Some tribes innervate +so that the innervation for the articulation and for the movement +of hands or feet coincide. This habit has the effect of letting +the clapping, drumming, or stamping follow the accent of the song. +It is also not a rare occurrence that the rhythmic pattern of body +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_316">[316]</span>movements and of song are not homologous, but that they are +interrelated in different ways or sometimes even seem to be quite +independent. Negro music as well as that of Northwest America +offers many examples of this kind.</p> + +<p>Although the problem involved in the structure of primitive poetry is +better understood now than it was a few years ago, and although +many energetic efforts are being made to obtain adequate collections, +the material for the study of this subject is still quite insufficient. +Travellers are rarely trained in the art of recording songs and are +apt to give us only the simplest forms that offer the least difficulties, +or to summarize their observations in descriptions that are altogether +too often misleading. Exact observations show that rhythmic complexity +is quite common. Regular rhythms consist of from two to +seven parts, and much longer groupings occur without recognizable +regularity of rhythmic structure. Their repetition in a series of +verses proves that they are fixed units.</p> + +<p>On account of the physiologically determined emotional quality of +rhythm it enters into all kinds of activities that are in any way +related to emotional life. Its exciting effect manifests itself in religious +songs and dances. Its compelling control may be observed +in war songs; its soothing effect appears in melodies; its esthetic +value is seen in song and decorative art. The origin of rhythm +must not be looked for in religious and social activities but the effect +of rhythm is akin to the emotional states connected with them and, +therefore, arouses them and is aroused by them.</p> + +<p>I believe the great variety of forms in which rhythmic repetition +of the same or similar elements is used, in prose and in poetry as +a rhythm of time, in decorative art as a rhythm of space,—shows +that Bücher’s theory according to which all rhythm is derived from +the movements accompanying work cannot be maintained, certainly +not in its totality. Wundt derives the rhythm of the songs used in +ceremonies from the dance, that of the working song from the +movements required in the performance of work,—a theory practically +identical with that proposed by Bücher, since the movements +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_317">[317]</span>of the dance are quite homologous to those of work. There is no +doubt that the feeling for rhythm is strengthened by dance and the +movements required in the execution of work, not only in the common +work of groups, of individuals who must try to keep time, but +also in industrial work, such as basketry or pottery that require in +their execution regularly repeated movements. The repetitions in +prose narrative as well as the rhythms of decorative art, so far as +they are not required by the technique, are proof of the inadequacy +of the purely technical explanation. The pleasure given by regular +repetition in embroidery, painting, and the stringing of beads cannot +be explained as due to technically determined, regular movements, +and there is no indication that would suggest that this kind of rhythm +developed later than the one determined by motor habits.</p> + +<p>It is a precarious undertaking to discuss the characteristics of +primitive poetic forms, partly because so little reliable material is +available, but partly also on account of the impossibility of obtaining +a fair insight into the meaning and value of literary expression +without an intimate knowledge of the language and culture in which +they have come into being. For this reason I shall base the following +remarks principally upon observations of the Kwakiutl tribe, +a tribe with whose language and culture I am familiar. It would be +unjustifiable to generalize and to claim that the traits that I am going +to discuss are characteristic of all primitive literature. On the contrary, +as our knowledge of primitive literature expands, individuality +of style will certainly be found to prevail. Still it seems likely +that features which are analogous to our own literary devices may +disclose general tendencies.</p> + +<p>Emphasis of salient points is used extensively in Kwakiutl prose +and song. Stress is most frequently given by repetition. I give a +few examples culled from speeches: “Indeed, indeed, true are the +words of the song, of my song, sung for you, tribe.”<a id="FNanchor_136_135" href="#Footnote_136_135" class="fnanchor">[136]</a></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_318">[318]</span></p> +<p>“He is a kind chief who is kind, speaking kindly to those who have +him for a chief.”<a id="FNanchor_137_136" href="#Footnote_137_136" class="fnanchor">[137]</a></p> + + +<p>“Now is finished the song of my chief. Finished is the great +one.”<a id="FNanchor_138_137" href="#Footnote_138_137" class="fnanchor">[138]</a></p> + + +<p>“Now you will give the name Great-Inviter to Inviter who has +come out of her room, her who has been made a princess, her who +is all over a princess on account of this that has been done by this +chief who has her for a princess.”<a id="FNanchor_139_138" href="#Footnote_139_138" class="fnanchor">[139]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_136_135" href="#FNanchor_136_135" class="label">[136]</a> Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Columbia University Contributions +to Anthropology, Vol. 3, p. 194, line 25.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_137_136" href="#FNanchor_137_136" class="label">[137]</a> Ibid., p. 258, line 24.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_138_137" href="#FNanchor_138_137" class="label">[138]</a> Ibid., p. 268, line 25.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_139_138" href="#FNanchor_139_138" class="label">[139]</a> Ibid., p. 308, line 3.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In songs repetitions are much more frequent than in speech. +I give a few examples:</p> + +<p>“Wa, out of the way! Waw haw hawa, Wa, out of the way! Ah, +do not in vain ask for mercy, Waw haw hawa! Ah, do not in +vain ask for mercy and raise your hands.”<a id="FNanchor_140_139" href="#Footnote_140_139" class="fnanchor">[140]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_140_139" href="#FNanchor_140_139" class="label">[140]</a> Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Thirty-fifth Annual +Report Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 1288.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Another example is the following:</p> + +<p>“I am the only great tree in the world, I the chief: I am the +only great tree in the world, I the chief.</p> + +<p>I am the great chief who vanquishes, Ha, ha, I am the great +chief who vanquishes, Ha, ha!”<a id="FNanchor_141_140" href="#Footnote_141_140" class="fnanchor">[141]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_141_140" href="#FNanchor_141_140" class="label">[141]</a> Ibid., p. 1290.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Emphasis may be obtained by placing the word to be emphasized +at the end of one phrase and by beginning the next phrase with +the same word.</p> + +<p>There are also many emphatic particles. The closing <i>ai</i> referred +to before, used in exhortative oratory, belongs to this group. Verbal +affixes meaning “really”, “indeed”, and the like are used informal +speech to give proper strength to the whole expression. In a wail +a woman chants: “Haha, hanane, now really I do this, I remember +my real past forefathers and really my great grandfathers and now +really I will go on with my family-myth here, telling of this, of my +beginning in the beginning of the world, of the chief who come up +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_319">[319]</span>in this world, haha, hanane; and really this was my ancestor who +really was going about spouting.”<a id="FNanchor_142_141" href="#Footnote_142_141" class="fnanchor">[142]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_142_141" href="#FNanchor_142_141" class="label">[142]</a> Ibid., p. 836.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In Africa the telling of a story is enlivened by affirmative exclamations +of the audience. When the narrator says, “The turtle killed +the leopard,” the audience will repeat, clapping their hands, “The +leopard, the leopard.”</p> + +<p>Emphasis is also given by an accumulation of synonyms. Alternate +terms are often used in this manner and in the original they +often have an added rhythmical value on account of the homology +of their form. Thus the Kwakiutl sings in a laudatory chant: “I +greatly fear our chief, oh tribes! I tremble on account of this +great means of trying to cause fear, of this great means of trying +to cause terror, of this greatest cause of terror.”<a id="FNanchor_143_142" href="#Footnote_143_142" class="fnanchor">[143]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_143_142" href="#FNanchor_143_142" class="label">[143]</a> Ibid., p. 1287.</p></div> +</div> +<p>“I shall break, I shall let disappear the great Copper, the property +of the great foolish one, the great extravagant one, the great surpassing +one, the one farthest ahead, the greatest Spirit-of-the-Woods +among the chiefs.”<a id="FNanchor_144_143" href="#Footnote_144_143" class="fnanchor">[144]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_144_143" href="#FNanchor_144_143" class="label">[144]</a> By “copper” is meant one of the valuable plates of copper that are considered +the “highest” kind of property. The “Spirit-of-the-Woods” is the symbol of wealth +and power, Ibid., p. 1288.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The beginning or the end of a rhythmic unit is often marked by +an interjection like the “haha hanane” of the wail previously quoted, +or by the repetition of the same word. Both these forms occur +often in love songs:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Ye ya aye ya! You are hard hearted, you who say that you love me,</div> +<div class="verse indent4">You are hard hearted, my dear!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ye ya aye ya! You are cruel, you who say that you are lovesick</div> +<div class="verse indent4">for me, my dear!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ye ya aye ya! When are you going to talk my love? my dear!<a id="FNanchor_145_144" href="#Footnote_145_144" class="fnanchor">[145]</a></div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_145_144" href="#FNanchor_145_144" class="label">[145]</a> Ibid., p. 1301.</p></div> +</div> +<p class="noindent">or in a shaman’s song:<a id="FNanchor_146_145" href="#Footnote_146_145" class="fnanchor">[146]</a></p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_320">[320]</span></p> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">I have been told to continue to heal him by</div> +<div class="verse indent4">the Good Supernatural Power,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I have been told to keep on putting the hemlock ring</div> +<div class="verse indent4">over him by the Shaman-of-the-Sea,</div> +<div class="verse indent4">the Good Supernatural Power,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I have been told to put back into our friend his soul, by</div> +<div class="verse indent4">the Good Supernatural Power,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I have been told to give him long life, by the Long-Life-</div> +<div class="verse indent4">Giver-of-the-Sea, the Chief-of-High-Water,</div> +<div class="verse indent4">the Good Supernatural Power.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_146_145" href="#FNanchor_146_145" class="label">[146]</a> Ibid., p. 1296.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Symmetry in the rigid sense of the term does not exist in the +arts built on time sequences. A reversion of time sequence is not +felt as symmetry in the same way as a reversion of space sequence +where every point has its equivalent point. In time sequences we +have a feeling for symmetry only for the order of repetition and +structural phrases. The following Negro poem will illustrate this:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Ko ko re ko kom on do!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Girl gone, him no gone,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Ko ko re ko kom on do!<a id="FNanchor_147_146" href="#Footnote_147_146" class="fnanchor">[147]</a></div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_147_146" href="#FNanchor_147_146" class="label">[147]</a> Martha Warren Beckwith, Jamaica Anansi Stories, Memoirs. Amer. Folk-lore +Soc., Vol. 17 (1924) p. 107.</p></div> +</div> +<p>It seems, however that in primitive recitative poetry and music +this form is not as frequent as in modern folk song or in modern +poetry.</p> + +<p>The effect of poetry and oratory depends in part on the use of +metaphor. It is hardly possible to discuss this in a generalized way, +because the appreciation of metaphor requires a most intimate knowledge +of the language in which it occurs. Apparent absence of +metaphor is undoubtedly more likely due to imperfect records than +to an actual absence of figures of speech. It is quite striking that it +is difficult to find metaphorical expressions in American Indian literature, +although it is undoubtedly a feature of their oratory. The +whole naming system of most American Indians proves their feeling +for figurative speech.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_321">[321]</span></p> +<p>Here also I may be permitted to confine my remarks to the use of +metaphor among the Kwakiutl with whose speech forms I am fairly +familiar. Metaphorical expressions are used particularly when describing +the greatness of a chief or of a warrior. The chief is compared +to a mountain; a precipice (from which rolls down wealth overwhelming +the tribes); a rock which cannot be climbed; the post of heaven +(who supports the world); the only great tree (that raises its +crown over the lesser trees of the woods or that rises in lonely +height on an island); a loaded canoe at anchor; the one who makes +the whole world smoky (from the fire in the house in which he +gives feasts); the thick tree; the thick root (of the tribe). It is said +that through his great acts he burns up the tribes, a term which is +primarily used for the warrior. The people follow him as the young +sawbill-ducks follow the mother bird. He makes the people suffer +with his short-life maker; he shoves away the tribes. His rival +whom he tries to vanquish is called, he with ruffled feathers; the +one whom he puts across his back (like a wolf carrying a deer); +the one with lolling tongue; the one who loses his tail (like the +salmon); the spider woman; old dog; mouldy face; dry face; broken +piece of copper.</p> + +<p>Greatness of a chief is called the weight of his name; when he +marries a princess he lifts her weight from the floor; his wealth of +blankets is a mountain that rises through our heavens; in the feast +surrounded by his tribe, he stands on his fortress. Wealth that he +acquires is a salmon that he catches.</p> + +<p>When following ancient customs the people walk the road laid +out for them by their ancestors.</p> + +<p>The warrior or a person of ill temper is called “hellebore”. +The warrior is also called “the double-headed serpent of the world”.</p> + +<p>Metaphorical terms are an important element in the speeches accompanying +public purchases, particularly the purchase of valuable +“coppers”. Many of these terms are accompanied by symbolic +actions. The first part of the payment in the purchase of a copper +is called the pillow or mattress on which the copper is to rest or +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_322">[322]</span>the harpoon line by which it is hauled in. The purchase itself is called +“shoving” that means pushing the value of the purchase under +the name of the purchaser who is thus raised in rank. At the end +of the transaction the seller gives to the purchaser a certain number +of blankets (which are the standard of value) as a “belt” to hold up +the blankets (in which the purchase price is reckoned); as boxes in +which to store these blankets; and finally he gives an amount as a +dress for his dancer (that is his female relative who dances for him +on festive occasions).</p> + +<p>When a person gives a great feast for his rival he extinguishes +the fire of his rival’s house; his feast steps up to the fire in the +middle of the house. If he surpasses his rival in liberality, his feast +steps across the fire and reaches the rear of the house where the +chief is seated.</p> + +<p>Presents for a bride are a packline to carry her property; a mat +on which she is to sit; and a mast for her canoe.</p> + +<p>I do not mention here the many euphemistic terms for sickness +and death, except a few that are used in speeches: the dead chief +has gone to take a rest; he has disappeared from this world; he +stays away; or he lies down.</p> + +<p>Metaphorical figures in songs are not rare. Of the death of a +renowned man who was drowned, it is said in his mourning song:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“It deprived me of my mind, when the moon went down at the edge of the waters”.<a id="FNanchor_148_147" href="#Footnote_148_147" class="fnanchor">[148]</a></div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_148_147" href="#FNanchor_148_147" class="label">[148]</a> Ethnology of the Kwakintl, 35th Ann. Rep. Bur Am. Ethn. p. 1292.</p></div> +</div> +<p>And in another mourning song<a id="FNanchor_149_148" href="#Footnote_149_148" class="fnanchor">[149]</a>:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Hana, hana, hana. It broke down, the post of the world.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Hana, hana, hana. It fell down to the ground, the post of the world.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Hana, hana, hana. Our great chief has taken a rest.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Hana, hana, hana. Now our past chief has fallen down.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_149_148" href="#FNanchor_149_148" class="label">[149]</a> Boas, Kwakiutl Ethnology, Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology. +Vol. III, p. 77.</p></div> +</div> + +<p>In a feast-song the chief is compared to the salmon<a id="FNanchor_150_149" href="#Footnote_150_149" class="fnanchor">[150]</a>: +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_323">[323]</span> </p> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The great one will not move, the greatest one, the great Spring Salmon.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Go on, great one, hurt the young children, the humble sparrows who are being</div> +<div class="verse indent12">teased by you, great Spring Salmon.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_150_149" href="#FNanchor_150_149" class="label">[150]</a> Ibid., p. 123.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In another feast-song the rivals are compared to insects<a id="FNanchor_151_150" href="#Footnote_151_150" class="fnanchor">[151]</a>:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">I am a chief, I am a chief, I am your chief, yours, who you are flying about.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I am too great to be bitten by those little flies that are flying about.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I am too great to be desired as food by those little horseflies that are flying about.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I am too great to be bitten by those little mosquitoes that are flying about.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_151_150" href="#FNanchor_151_150" class="label">[151]</a> Ibid., p. 129.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In still another song he is compared to a tree<a id="FNanchor_152_151" href="#Footnote_152_151" class="fnanchor">[152]</a>:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">A great cedar dancer is our chief, our tribes.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">It cannot be spanned, our great chief, our tribes.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">My chief here from long ago, from the beginning of the myth time, for you, tribes.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_152_151" href="#FNanchor_152_151" class="label">[152]</a> Ibid., p. 197.</p></div> +</div> +<p>A number of sayings of the Tsimshian present also good cases of +the use of metaphor. “A deer though toothless, may accomplish +something”; “he is just sleeping on a deerskin” (i. e. not expecting +approaching hardships); “it seems you think that Nass River is always +calm” (i. e. that you will always be fortunate); “he is just +enjoying the water lilies for a short time” (as a bear feeding on +water lilies and about to be killed by the hunter who lies in ambush).<a id="FNanchor_153_152" href="#Footnote_153_152" class="fnanchor">[153]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_153_152" href="#FNanchor_153_152" class="label">[153]</a> Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 2 (1889), p. 285.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Examples of metaphor may be found here and there in songs +and speeches. The Osage sing:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Ho! Toward what shall they (the little ones) direct their footsteps, it has been said</div> +<div class="verse indent11">in the house.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">It is toward a little valley they shall direct their footsteps.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Verily, it is not a little valley that is spoken of,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">It is toward the bend of a river they shall direct their footsteps.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Verily, it is not the bend of a river that is spoken of,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">It is toward a little house that they shall direct their footsteps.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>The valley and the bend of the river represent the path of life +which is pictured as crossing four valleys or as following the course +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_324">[324]</span>of the river having four bends.<a id="FNanchor_154_153" href="#Footnote_154_153" class="fnanchor">[154]</a> This concept also finds expression +in the decorative art of the Indians of the Plains.<a id="FNanchor_155_154" href="#Footnote_155_154" class="fnanchor">[155]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_154_153" href="#FNanchor_154_153" class="label">[154]</a> Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe, The Rite of Vigil, 39th Ann. Rep. Bur. +Amer. Ethnology, Washington 1925, p. 258.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_155_154" href="#FNanchor_155_154" class="label">[155]</a> A. L. Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bulletin Am. Uns. Nat. Hist. Vol. 18, Plate 16, +p. 100; Clark Wissler, Decorative Art of the Sioux Indians, Ibid., p. 242, fig. 77.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Another metaphor is used in the following illustration:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Upon whom shall we slip off our moccasins? they said to one another, it has been said in this house.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Toward the setting sun,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">There is an adolescent youth,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Upon whom we shall always slip off our moccasins, they said to one another, it has been said in this house.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>Here the slipping off of moccasins means the crushing and killing of +the enemy, here personified in the adolescent youth.<a id="FNanchor_156_155" href="#Footnote_156_155" class="fnanchor">[156]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_156_155" href="#FNanchor_156_155" class="label">[156]</a> Francis La Flesche, Ibid., p. 84.</p></div> +</div> +<p>In the speech containing the migration legend of the Creek, the +head-chief Chekilli said: “The Cussetaws cannot yet leave their red +hearts, which are, however, white on one side and red on the +other”.<a id="FNanchor_157_156" href="#Footnote_157_156" class="fnanchor">[157]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_157_156" href="#FNanchor_157_156" class="label">[157]</a> Albert S. Gatschet, A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, Philadelphia, 1884; +p. 251.</p></div> +</div> +<p>James Mooney records the following formula for success in hunting. +obtained from the Cherokee.<a id="FNanchor_158_157" href="#Footnote_158_157" class="fnanchor">[158]</a></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class="noindent">Give me the wind. Give me the breeze. Yu! O Great Terrestrial +Hunter, I come to the edge of your spittle where you repose. Let +your stomach cover itself; let it be covered with leaves. Let it +cover itself at a single bend, and may you never be satisfied.</p> + +<p class="noindent">And you, O Ancient Red, may you hover above my breast while +I sleep. Now let good (dreams?) develop; let my expressions be +propitious. Ha! Now let my little trails be directed, as they lie +down in various directions (?). Let the leaves be covered with the +clotted blood, and may it never cease to be so. You two shall bury +it in your stomachs. Yu.</p> +</div> + + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_158_157" href="#FNanchor_158_157" class="label">[158]</a> James Mooney, The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, Seventh Annual Report +of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 369.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_325">[325]</span></p> +<p>In this formula the gods of the hunt, fire and water are called +upon. The Great Terrestrial Hunter is the river, its spittle the +foam; the blood-stained leaves on which the game has been killed +are to cover the surface of the water. The hunter asks that all the +game may be assembled at one bend of the river which is supposed +to long for evermore. In the second part, the Ancient Red is the +fire. It hovers over the breast because the hunter rubs his chest +with ashes. The blood-stained leaves are thrown into the fire and into +the water which is expressed by having them buried in the stomach.</p> + +<p>The contents of primitive narrative, poetry and song are as varied +as the cultural interests of the singers. It does not seem admissible +to measure their literary value by the standards of the emotions +that they release in us. We ought to inquire in how far they are +an adequate expression of the emotional life of the natives. To +primitive man, hunger is something entirely different from what it +is to us who ordinarily do not know what the pangs of hunger +mean, who do not realize all the implications of starvation. If a +people like the Bushmen or the Eskimo sing of their joy after a +successful hunt and after a hearty meal, if the Orang Semang of +the Malay Peninsula sing of the gathering of fruit and of the successful +hunt, the connotation of these songs is no different from that +of a harvest song. We are too easily mislead by the concreteness +of the picture and assume that the emotional connotation that we +require in poetry must be absent. Even among ourselves a graphic +passage in a lyric poem does not by any means always release a +definite, mental image but appeals rather through the feelings engendered +by the descriptive terms. For this reason we must +necessarily assume that the emotional setting of the picture is the +essential poetic element for the singer, not the objective terms that +alone appeal to us because we are not familiar with the emotions +of every day native life. We feel only the graphic value of the +words. The much-quoted Semang<a id="FNanchor_159_158" href="#Footnote_159_158" class="fnanchor">[159]</a> song represents a good example:</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_326">[326]</span></p> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Our fruit grows plump at the end of the spray.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">We climb along and cut it from the end of the spray.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Plump, too, is the bird (?) at the end of the spray.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">And plump the young squirrel at the end of the spray.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_159_158" href="#FNanchor_159_158" class="label">[159]</a> W. W. Skeat and C. O. Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Vol. 1 +(1906), p. 627.</p></div> +</div> +<p>This song which deals with plants and animals serving as food, +should be compared with another one that is more readily appreciated +by us:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The stem bends as the leaves shoot up.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The leaf-stems sway to and fro.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">To and fro they sway in diverse ways.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">We rub them and they lose their stiffness.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">On Mount Inas they are blown about.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">On Mount Inas which is our home.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about by the light breeze.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about is the fog (?).</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about is the haze.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about are the young shoots.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about is the haze of the hills,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Blown about by the light breeze.</div> +<div class="verse indent4">etc.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>If we feel the latter as a more poetic type it is presumably only +because we cannot share the feelings aroused in the Orang Semang +by the reference to the efforts in gathering fruit and in hunting +animals. The effectiveness of poetry does not depend upon the +power of expressive description that releases clear mental images, +but upon the energy with which words arouse the emotions.</p> + +<p>It is misleading to compare primitive poetry that has been recorded +by collectors with the literary poetry of our times. The coarse +sexual songs or drinking songs that do not form part of our polite +literature, are quite on a par with the songs that may be heard in +primitive society in the company of lusty young men or excited +young women and their prevalence in existing collections is, in all +probability, merely due to the inability of the collector to approach +the natives in moments of religious devotion, of tender love, or +poetic exaltation. In many cases it is quite obvious that some of +the songs collected were made to make fun of the collector. It is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_327">[327]</span>not admissible to build on the meagre evidence that we possess, a +system of development of lyrics in which the coarse forms, the +exuberant spirits of every day life are mistaken for the expression +of the highest poetic achievement. In all those cases in which fuller +collections are available, as in America for instance from the Omaha, +Eskimo, Kwakiutl, and from some of the southwestern tribes, there +is ample evidence of poetic feeling that moves on higher planes.</p> + +<p>Still, poetic susceptibility is not the same everywhere, neither in +form nor in intensity. The local culture determines what kind of +experiences have a poetic value and the intensity with which they +act. I select as an example the difference between the descriptive +style found in Polynesia and that of many Indian traditions. In the +Fornander collection of Hawaiian tales we read: “They admired +the beauty of his appearance. His skin was like to a ripe banana. +His eyeballs were like the young buds of a banana. His body was +straight and without blemish and he was without an equal.” In the +story of Laieikawai it is said: “I am not the mistress of this shore. +I come from inland, from the top of the mountain which is clothed +in a white garment.” It would be a vain task to search for similar +passages in the literature of many Indian tribes. The American +Indians differ considerably among themselves in regard to this trait. +Tsimshian tales are rich when compared to the barrenness of the +descriptive tales of the Plateau tribes.</p> + +<p>Poetic descriptions appear more frequently in songs. However +even these are not found everywhere. The songs of the Indians +of the Southwest suggest that the phenomena of nature have impressed +the poet deeply, although it must be remembered that most of his +descriptive terms are stereotyped ceremonial expressions.</p> + +<p>As an example I give the following song of the Navaho:<a id="FNanchor_160_159" href="#Footnote_160_159" class="fnanchor">[160]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“On the trail marked with pollen may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With dew about my feet may I walk,</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_328">[328]</span></p><div class="verse indent0">With beauty may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With beauty before me, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With beauty behind me, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With beauty above me, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With beauty under me, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">With beauty all around me, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">It is finished in beauty.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_160_159" href="#FNanchor_160_159" class="label">[160]</a> Washington Matthews, Navaho Myths, Prayers and Songs. University of California +Publications in Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 5, p. 48, lines 61-73.</p></div> +</div> +<p>Of similar character is the following song of the Apache:<a id="FNanchor_161_160" href="#Footnote_161_160" class="fnanchor">[161]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“At the east where the black water lies, stands the large corn,</div> +<div class="verse indent2">with staying roots, its large stalk, its red silk, its long</div> +<div class="verse indent2">leaves, its tassel dark and spreading, on which there is the dew.</div></div> + +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“At the sunset where the yellow water lies, stands the large</div> +<div class="verse indent2">pumpkin with its tendrils, its long stem, its wide leaves, its</div> +<div class="verse indent2">yellow top on which there is pollen.”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_161_160" href="#FNanchor_161_160" class="label">[161]</a> P. E. Goddard, Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache. Anthropological +Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 24, 1910.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The following song of the Pima has also ceremonial significance:<a id="FNanchor_162_161" href="#Footnote_162_161" class="fnanchor">[162]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“Wind now commences to sing;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Wind now commences to sing;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Wind now commences to sing.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The land stretches before me,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Before me it stretches away.</div></div> + +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Wind’s house now is thundering;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Wind’s house now is thundering.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Came the myriad-legged wind.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The wind came running hither.</div></div> + +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The Black Snake Wind came to me</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The Black Snake Wind came to me.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Came and wrapped itself about,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Came here running with its song.</div></div> +</div></div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_329">[329]</span></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_162_161" href="#FNanchor_162_161" class="label">[162]</a> Frank Russell, The Pima Indians, 26<sup>th</sup> Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 324.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The following Eskimo song which describes the beauty of nature +is well known:<a id="FNanchor_163_162" href="#Footnote_163_162" class="fnanchor">[163]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“The great Kunak mount yonder south, I do behold it;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The great Kunak mount yonder south, I regard it;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The shining brightness yonder south, I contemplate.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Outside of Kunak it is expanding,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">The same that Kunak towards the seaside doth quite encompass.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Behold, how yonder south they shift and change.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Behold, how yonder south they tend to beautify each other,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">While from the seaside it is enveloped in sheets still changing,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">From the seaside enveloped to mutual embellishment.”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_163_162" href="#FNanchor_163_162" class="label">[163]</a> Henry Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimos, London, 1875, p. 68.</p></div> +</div> +<p>A song, provided it does not contain intelligible words, may be +of purely formal esthetic value, which depends upon its melodic and +rhythmic character. Even these forms may be attached to more or +less different groups of ideas of emotional value. On the other hand +the established significance of the song may vary materially when +different sets of words are used with it. We observe this in our +own culture, when diverse thoughts are expressed in the same +metre or when distinct poems are sung according to the same tune,—as, +for example, happened in the transfer of folksongs into +religious songs. I do not know in how far this may happen in +primitive poetry. Among the tribes that I know best there is a +decided tendency to associate a certain rhythm with a certain set +of songs. Thus the five part rhythm of the Northwest coast of +America seems to be closely connected with the religious winter +ceremonial; the mourning songs with slow regular beating.</p> + +<p>The inherent relation between literary type and culture appears +also clearly in narrative.</p> + +<p>The motives of action are determined by the mode of life and +the chief interests of the people, and the plots give us a picture of +these.</p> + +<p>In many typical tales of the Chukchee of Siberia the subject of +the tale is the tyranny and overmastering arrogance of an athletic +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_330">[330]</span>hunter or warrior and the attempts of the villagers to free themselves. +Among the Eskimo a group of brothers often take the place +of the village bully. Among both groups of people who live in small +settlements, without any hard and fast political organization, the fear +of the strongest person plays an important role, no matter whether +his power is founded on bodily strength or on supposed supernatural +qualities. The story uses generally a weak, despised boy as savior +of the community. Although tales of overbearing chiefs do occur +among the Indians they are not by any means a predominant type.</p> + +<p>The principal theme of the Indians of British Columbia, whose +thoughts are almost entirely taken up by the wish to obtain rank +and high position in the community, is the tale of a poor man who +attains high position, or of the struggles between two chiefs who try +to outdo each other in feats that will increase their social standing. +Among the Blackfeet the principal theme is the acquisition of ceremonies, +possession and practise of which is a most important element +in their life.</p> + +<p>All these differences are not entirely those of content but they +influence the form of the narrative, because the incidents are tied +together in different ways. The same motive recurs over and over +again in the tales of primitive people, so that a large mass of material +collected from the same tribe is liable to be very monotonous, +and after a certain point has been reached only new variants of old +themes are obtained.</p> + +<p>However, much more fundamental are the differences which are +based on the general difference of cultural outlook. The same story +told by different tribes may bear an entirely different face. Not +only is the setting distinct, the motivation and the main points of +the tales are emphasized by different tribes in different ways and +take on a local coloring that can be understood only in relation to +the whole culture. An example selected from among the tales of +the North American Indians will illustrate this point. I chose the +story of the star husband, which is told on the prairies, in British +Columbia, and on the North Atlantic coast. The prairie tribes tell +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_331">[331]</span>that two maidens go out to dig roots and camp out. They see two +stars and wish to be married to them. The next morning they +find themselves in the sky married to the stars. They are forbidden +to dig certain large roots, but the young women disobey the orders +of their husbands and, through a hole in the ground they see the +earth below. By means of a rope they climb down. From here +on, the story takes distinctive forms in different geographical areas. +In one form the adventures of the women after their return are +described, in the other the feats of the child born by one of them. +The central view-point of the same story as told by the Indians of +British Columbia is completely changed. The girls of a village +build a house in which they play and one day they talk about the +stars, how happy they must be because they are able to see the +whole world. The next morning they awake in the sky, in front +of the house of a great chief. The house is beautifully carved and +painted. Suddenly a number of men appear who pretend to embrace +the girls but kill them by sucking out their brains. Only the chief’s +daughter and her younger sister are saved. The elder sister becomes +the wife of the chief of the stars. Finally the chief sends them +back with the promise to help them whenever they are in need. +They find the village deserted and the star chief sends down his +house and the masks and whistles belonging to a ceremony which +becomes the hereditary property of the woman’s family. The tale +ends with the acquisition of the house and the ceremony, matters +that are the chief interest in the life of the Indians. In this way the +story becomes one of the long series of tales of similar import, +although the contents belong to an entirely distinct group.</p> + +<p>As a second example I mention the story of Amor and Psyche +which has been cast into a new mould by the Pueblo Indians. Here +the antelope appears in the form of a maiden. She marries a youth +who is forbidden to see the girl. He transgresses this order and, +by the light of a candle, looks upon her while she is asleep. Immediately +the girl and house disappear and the young man finds himself +in the wallow of an antelope.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_332">[332]</span></p> +<p>Equally instructive are the transformations of biblical stories in +the mouths of the natives. Dr. Benedict and Dr. Parsons have +recorded a nativity story of the Zuni in which Jesus appears as a +girl, the daughter of the sun. After the child is born the domestic +animals lick it, only the mule refuses to do so and is punished +with sterility. The whole story has been given a new aspect. It +is made to account for the fertility of animals, and tells how fertility +may be increased, a thought uppermost in the minds of the Pueblos.</p> + +<p>European fairy tales differ in this respect from those of primitive +tribes, for in contents and form they embrace many survivals +of past times. It is quite evident that the modern European fairy +tale does not reflect the conditions of the State of our times, nor +the conditions of our daily life, but that they give us an imaginative +picture of rural life in semifeudal times, and that, owing to +the contradictions between modern intellectualism and the ancient +rural tradition, conflicts of viewpoints occur that may be interpreted as +survivals. In the tales of primitive people it is otherwise. A detailed +analysis of the traditional tales of a number of Indian tribes shows +complete agreement of the conditions of life with those that may +be abstracted from the tales. Beliefs and customs in life and in +tales are in full accord. This is true not only of old native material +but also of imported stories that have been borrowed some +time ago. They are quickly adapted to the prevailing mode of +life. The analysis of tales from the Northwest coast and from the +Pueblos gives the same result. Only during the period of transition +to new modes of life, such as are brought about by contact +with Europeans, contradictions develop. Thus it happens that in +the tales of Laguna, one of the Pueblos of New Mexico, the visitor +always enters through the roof of the house, although the +modern houses have doors. The headman of the ceremonial organization +plays an important role in many tales, although the organization +itself has largely disappeared. The tales of the Plains +Indians still tell of buffalo hunts although the game has disappeared +and the people have become tillers of the soil and laborers.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_333">[333]</span></p> +<p>It would be erroneous to assume that the absence of survivals of +an earlier time can be explained as due to the permanence of conditions, +to a lack of historical change. Primitive culture is a product +of historical development no less than modern civilization. Mode +of life, customs, and beliefs of primitive tribes are not stable; but +the rate of change, unless disturbances from the outside occur, is +slower than among ourselves. What is lacking is the pronounced +social stratification of our times that brings it about that the various +groups represent, as it were, different periods of development. So +far as my knowledge goes we find the cultural, formal background +of the art of narrative of primitive people almost entirely determined +by its present cultural state. The only exceptions are found +in periods of an unusually rapid change or of disintegration. However, +in this case also a readjustment occurs. Thus the stories of +the modern negroes of Angola reflect the mixed culture of the +west African coast. In the cultural background of the narrative, +survivals do not play an important role, at least not under normal +conditions. The plot may be old and taken from foreign sources, +but in its adoption it undergoes radical changes.</p> + +<p>These remarks relating to literature do not mean, of course, that +in other aspects of life ancient customs and beliefs may not persist +over long periods.</p> + +<p>We have spoken so far of the structure of the elements of prose +tales and songs. Important characteristics are found also in the +manner of their composition. In the narratives of some people the +episodes are anecdotally short; among others the wish for a more +complex structure is felt. Often this is accomplished by the meagre +device of concentrating all the anecdotes around one personage.</p> + +<p>In many cases the craftiness, strength, voracity or amorousness +of the hero gives a more or less definite character to the whole +cycle. The Raven tale of Alaska consists entirely of unrelated +episodes. The only connecting element, besides the identity of the +hero, is the voracity of the Raven; but even this disappears in +many cases. Quite similar are the Coyote tales of the Plateaus, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_334">[334]</span>the Spider tales of the Sioux, the Rabbit tales of the Algonquin, +the Spider tales of the Guinea coast, the Rabbit and Turtle tales +of South Africa, and the Fox tales of Europe. There is no inner +connection between the specific character of the hero and the contents +in the anecdote of the hoodwinked dancers (birds are induced +to dance with closed eyes so as to give the hero a chance to wring +their necks without being observed); in the tale of the eye juggler +(the hero who is induced to throw up his eyes which are then caught +in the branches of a tree so that he becomes blind); or in the incident +of the bungling host (the hero is invited to partake of magically +obtained food and he reciprocates the invitation but is ignominiously +defeated in his attempt to repeat the magical procedure).</p> + +<p>Sometimes the tales are strung on the slight thread of an Odyssey, +of a tale of adventure and travel. To this class belongs the Eskimo +tale of a hero who escaped a storm created by magic, and who +encountered dangers of the sea which are described in some detail. +He reaches a foreign coast and encounters cannibals and other dangerous +creatures. Finally he reaches home again. Another case of +this kind is a newly developed legend of the Tlingit of Alaska. In +the early days of Russian colonization of Alaska the Tlingit attacked +the fort at Sitka and the Russian governor, Baranoff, had to flee. +After a few years he returned to reestablish the fort. This interval +is filled by the Tlingit with a marvellous journey, telling how he +goes in search of his son. He encounters fabulous beings that are +known from other tales, visits the entrance to the lower world and +communicates with the ghosts who give him instructions. Among +the Pueblo Indians a large number of incidents are connected in a +tale of migration in which the whole tribe participates.</p> + +<p>In other cases there is an effort to establish an inner connection +between the single elements. Thus the disconnected Raven tale of +Alaska has been remodelled in southern British Columbia in such +a manner that some of the elements of the tale have been brought +into an inner connection: The thunder-bird steals a woman. In +order to recover her the raven makes a whale of wood and kills +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_335">[335]</span>the gum because he needs it to caulk the whale. In another tale +the killing of the gum is the introduction to a visit to the sky. +The sons of the murdered gum ascend the sky to take revenge.</p> + +<p>Other tales are so developed that they form a complex, novelistic +plot. The creation legends of the Polynesians are of this character. +Even among those tribes that enjoy the brief, etiological anecdote, +tales occur that contain the elements of an epic poem. The bare +outlines of a family story of the Kwakiutl may serve as an example: +The Thunderbird and his wife live in heaven, they descend to our +earth and become the ancestors of a family. The Transformer +meets them and in a series of contests the two prove to be of +equal power. Finally the transformer puts frogs into the stomach +of the Thunderbird-ancestor who takes them out again and deposits +them on a rock. The sons of one of his friends go and then the +frogs enter their stomachs, but they are cured by the Thunderbird-ancestor. +In return he receives a magic canoe. The tale goes on +to relate the birth, magic growth, and exploits of his four children. +His wife is ravished by a spirit and gives birth to a boy who is +washed in the slime of a double-headed serpent. Thus his skin +becomes stone. The tale continues with a long series of warlike +exploits of this son. Finally he <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: woes" id="woes">woos</ins> a princess for one of his +brothers. On a visit to her home the son of this princess is made +fun of by the children in the village of her father. This results in +a war in which the village of her father is destroyed. One of the +wives of her father escapes and gives birth to a boy. The second +wife of her father is enslaved by Stone-Body, the young man whose +skin had been transformed into stone. She gives birth to a boy +and by a ruse succeeds in making her escape with her son. The +two brothers grow up and, in a series of adventures and exploits, +both obtain supernatural power. They meet and travel towards the +village of their father, killing and transforming on the way dangerous +monsters. Meanwhile Stone-Body has obtained a ceremonial +from a southern tribe and goes to Feather-Mountain in the north +to obtain bird’s down, needed for this dance. On his way back he +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_336">[336]</span>meets the ancestors of another tribe and they have a contest of +magical powers. In this he is overcome and killed with his whole +crew. In the main story this incident is omitted. He goes on and +the two brothers, the daughters of the escaped woman overturn his +canoe and kill him. On a visit to her father the woman married to +Stone-Body’s brother sees the head of Stone-Body and her child +reports this after their return. Then her husband’s people set out +to take revenge but all are killed by the two brothers, who give a +<ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: feasts" id="feasts">feast</ins> in their house and maltreat their guests.</p> + +<p>So far we have considered only the reflection of cultural life +in the form of the narrative. Its influence is also expressed in another +manner. When the narrative is thoroughly integrated in the +life of the people a process occurs quite similar to the one we observed +in decorative art. As a geometric form often receives a +secondary meaning that is read into it, so the narrative is given an +interpretative significance that is quite foreign to the original tale; +and as in decorative art the adventitious meaning varies in character +according to the culture of the people, thus the style of the interpretation +of a tale depends upon the cultural interests of the +people telling it and, accordingly, assumes distinctive forms. We +have found that art styles are apt to be disseminated over wide +areas while the explanatory meaning of art forms shows much +greater individuality. Precisely in the same manner, tales are apt +to travel over enormous areas but their significance changes according +to the various cultural interests of the tribes. As an example +I refer to the story of the girl who married a dog, a tale widely +spread in North America. It is used to explain the origin of the +milky way (Alaska); the origin of the culture hero (British Columbia); +the origin of the tribal ancestor (Southern British Columbia); the origin +of a constellation (interior of British Columbia); the origin of a red +cliff (interior of Alaska); the origin of the Dog Society (Blackfoot); +and the reason why dogs are the friends of man (Arapaho).<a id="FNanchor_164_163" href="#Footnote_164_163" class="fnanchor">[164]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_164_163" href="#FNanchor_164_163" class="label">[164]</a> Waterman, The Explanatory Element in the Folk-tales of the North American +Indians, Journal of American Folk-lore, Vol. 27 (1914), pp. 28 et seq.</p></div> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_337">[337]</span></p> +<p>The view of the historical development of explanatory tales here +expressed is analogous to that regarding the relation of symbolism +and design. The general type of interpretation of symbolism exists +in the tribe and the tale is made to conform to it. In many +cases the symbolic or interpretative explanation is a foreign element +added on to the design or to the tale in agreement with a stylistic +pattern controlling the imagination of the people. This process may +lead indirectly also to a conformable stylistic development of other +representations, or to attempts to give explanations for the phenomena of +nature. Only on the basis of a pre-existing style which has its origin in non-symbolic +and non-interpretative sources can the resultant form develop.</p> + +<p>It must not be assumed that the literary style of a people is uniform, +on the contrary the forms are quite varied. I have pointed out +before that unity of style is not found in decorative art either, that many +cases may be adduced in which different styles are used in different +industries or among different groups of the population. Just so we +find in a tribe complex tales that have definite structural cohesion, +and brief anecdotes; some told with an evident enjoyment of diffuse +detail, others almost reduced to a formula. An example of this are +the long stories and the animal fables of the Eskimo. The former +treat of events happening in human society, of adventurous travel, +of encounters with monsters and supernatural beings, of deeds of +shamans. They are novelistic tales. On the other hand many of +the animal fables are mere formulas. Similar contrasts are found +in the tales and fables of the negroes.</p> + +<p>The styles of songs vary also considerably according to the occasion +for which they are composed. Among the Kwakiutl we find +long songs in which the greatness of the ancestors is described in +the form of recitatives. In religious festivals songs are used of +rigid rhythmic structure, accompanying dances. In these the same +words or syllables are repeated over and over again, except that another +appellation for the supernatural being in whose honor they are sung is +introduced in each new stanza. Again of a different type are the +love songs which are not by any means rare.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_338">[338]</span></p> +<p>It is striking that certain literary forms are found among all the +races of the old world while they are unknown in America. Here +belongs particularly the proverb. The important position held by the +proverb in the literature of Africa, Asia, and also of Europe until +quite recent times, is well known. In Africa particularly do we +find the proverb in constant use. It is even the basis of court decisions. +The importance of the proverb in Europe is illustrated by +the way in which Sancho Panza applies it. Equally rich is Asiatic +literature in proverbial sayings. On the contrary, hardly any proverbial +sayings are known from American Indians. I have referred +before to a few metaphorical sayings of the Tsimshian, the only +proverbial sayings known to me north of Mexico.<a id="FNanchor_165_164" href="#Footnote_165_164" class="fnanchor">[165]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_165_164" href="#FNanchor_165_164" class="label">[165]</a> I collected one saying among the Eskimo of Cumberland Sound: “If I should +go to get them I should be like one who goes to buy the backside of a salmon +(i. e. something without value).”</p></div> +</div> +<p>The same conditions are found in regard to the riddle, one of the +favorite pass-times of the Old World, which is almost entirely absent +in America. Riddles are known from the Yukon River, a region +in which Asiatic influences may be discovered in several cultural +traits, and also in Labrador. In other parts of the continent careful +questioning has failed to reveal their occurrence. It is striking that +even in New Mexico and Arizona, where Indians and Spaniards +have been living side by side for several centuries and where Indian +literature is full of Spanish elements, the riddle, nevertheless, +has not been adopted, although the Spaniards of this region are as +fond of riddles as those of other parts of the country. Sahagun, +however, records a number of riddles from Mexico.<a id="FNanchor_166_165" href="#Footnote_166_165" class="fnanchor">[166]</a></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"><a id="Footnote_166_165" href="#FNanchor_166_165" class="label">[166]</a> B. Sahagun (see note p. 132), Vol. 2, pp. 236, 237.</p></div> +</div> +<p>As a third example I mention the peculiar development of the +animal tale. Common to mankind the world over is the animal +fable by means of which form and habits of animals, or the existence +of natural phenomena are explained. The moralising fable, +on the other hand, belongs to the Old World.</p> + +<p>The distribution of epic poetry is also wide, but nevertheless +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_339">[339]</span>limited to a fairly definitely circumscribed area, namely Europe and +a considerable part of Central Asia. We have mentioned that in +America long, connected tribal traditions occur, but up to this time +no trace of a composition that might be called a romance or a true +epic poem has ever been discovered. Neither can the Polynesian +legends telling of the descent and deeds of their chiefs be designated +as epic poetry. The distribution of this form can be understood +only on the basis of the existence of ancient cultural relations. For +this reason Wundt’s analysis of the origin of the epic poem does +not seem adequate. It has a meaning only in so far as the inclination +existed to express in song tribal history and the deeds of +heroes, a pattern that developed locally, but that is not of universal +occurrence.</p> + +<p>On the ground of the distribution of these types two conclusions +may be established: the one that these forms are not necessary +steps in the development of literary form, but that they occur only +under certain conditions; the other that the forms are not determined +by race, but depend upon historical happenings.</p> + +<p>If at the time when Europeans first came to the New World the +literature of the Americans did not possess the three types of +literature which we mentioned, it does not follow that they would +have appeared at a later time. We have no reason whatever to +assume that American literature was less developed than that of +Africa. On the contrary, the art of narrative and poetry are highly +developed in many parts of America. We must rather assume that +the historical conditions have led to a form different from that of +the Old World.</p> + +<p>The wide distribution of most of these forms among Europeans, +Mongols, Malay, and Negro proves the independence of literary +development from racial descent. It shows that it is one of the +characteristics of the enormously extended cultural area, which +embraces almost the whole of the Old World, and which in other +features also appears in distinct contrast to the New World. I +mention here only the development of a formal judicial procedure, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_340">[340]</span>founded on the taking of evidence, the oath and the ordeal and the +absence of this complex in America; and the absence in America +of the belief in obsession and of the evil eye which are widely +known in the Old World.</p> + +<p>The characteristics of poetry lead us to a consideration of the +forms of music. The only kind of music that is of universal +occurrence is song; and the source of music must therefore be +sought here. Universally valid characteristics of song will also be +general principles of music. Two elements are common to all +song: rhythm and fixed intervals. We have shown before that +rhythm must not be conceived on the basis of our modern regularity +as a sequence of measures of equal duration and somewhat +free subdivision, but its form is much more general. Apparent irregularity +must not be misinterpreted as a lack of rhythm, for in +each repetition of a song the same order is preserved without +change. Precisely as the rhythmic order in primitive decorative +art is more complex than our own, so also is the rhythm of music +liable to be more complex. Regular measures do occur, but they +are not so rigidly confined to 2, 3 or 4 part time, as our own, but +5 and 7 part sequences frequently occur, in fact predominate in +some types of music: five part rhythms are common in northwestern +America, 7 part rhythms in southern Asia. Alterations of rhythms +that seem unfamiliar to us are found, as well as very complex +sequences that cannot be reduced to measures at all. We may best +describe the rhythm of many types of primitive music as consisting +of a regular sequence of musical phrases of irregular structure. +Sometimes the phrases expand into long rhythmic units without +recognisable subdivision.</p> + +<p>A second and all-important element of all music is the use of +fixed intervals which may be transposed from one point of the tone +series to another and which are always recognized as equivalent. +In singing, these intervals are naturally inaccurate, for intonation is +uncertain and wavering and depends upon the intensity of emotional +excitement. Intervals are liable to increase, as the emotions of the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_341">[341]</span>singers are raised to a higher pitch. It is, therefore, difficult if not +impossible to say what the singers intend to sing. The musical +interval may be compared with the melody of language. Most +languages do not use pitch in such a way that it is an important, +significant part of articulation. The use of pitch in language is +more widely distributed than is generally known. It is not by any +means the exclusive feature of Chinese, but it occurs in Africa as +well as in America, not to speak of its familiar use in the Scandinavian +languages and in ancient Greek. Theoretically it is conceivable +that early human speech might have used fixed intervals +and musical phrasing of vowels and voiced consonants just as well +as different <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: timber" id="timber">timbre</ins> of vowels (that is our <i>a</i>, <i>e</i>, <i>i</i>, <i>o</i>, <i>u</i>, and other +vowel values), to express different ideas, but it cannot be proved +that such was done. It is much more likely, according to available +linguistic evidence that musical tone in language is a secondary +development due to the disappearance of formative elements. We +must also consider that in languages with tone, glides are of great +importance and that these are not typical parts of the melodic +sequence, although they occur as endings of phrases. Furthermore +the intervals of speech are not fixed and vary considerably according +to the position of the word in the phrase. It does not seem likely, +therefore, that the melody can be derived directly from speech, as +Herbert Spencer tried to do. I rather adhere to the opinion of +Stumpf who demands a different origin for the fixed interval. The +sustained cry is much more likely to use fixed intervals and stable tones.</p> + +<p>Whatever their origin may have been, we must recognize the +existence of fixed intervals and their transponability as the fundamental +requirements of all music. It is true that in some languages the value +of the fixed interval is keenly felt. This is demonstrated by the +so-called drum language of West Africa in which the speech melody +and rhythm is repeated on drums of definite tones and where these +tone sequences are understood.</p> + +<p>Further investigation of primitive music requires a study of the +intervals themselves. Notwithstanding the great differences of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_342">[342]</span>systems we find that all intervals may be interpreted as subdivisions +of the octave. To the untrained ear the octave appears very commonly +as a single tone; in other words, no distinction is made +between a tone and its octave. To a lesser extent this is true of +the fifth and even of the fourth. The majority of intervals that +have been found must be considered as subdivisions of the octave. +However, the subdivision does not always proceed according to +harmonic principles as in our music, but by equidistant tones. The +development of harmony in modern music has had the effect that +we have lost all feeling for equidistance in a harmonic series and +that the recent music in which non-harmonic equidistant tones are +applied require a difficult break with the pattern of musical form to +which we are accustomed. After a long struggle, we have reached a +compromise between the two systems, the harmonic and the equidistant, +by dividing the octave into twelve equal parts which give +a fairly close agreement to the natural harmonic intervals, although +the differences are audible to a trained ear. The Javanese divide +the octave into seven equidistant steps, the Siamese into five, systems +that are in fundamental conflict with those of our music. In +short, a great variety of scales exist and serve as foundation for +the musical systems of different people. All seem to have in +common as foundation the octave.</p> + +<p>I will not enter into this intricate subject any further, because a +safe method has not yet been found that would enable us to tell +definitely what people <em>want</em> to sing among whom there is no theory +of music, as it exists among ourselves or the civilized people of +Asia, and who have no exactly constructed instruments.</p> + +<p>Among musical instruments one type is of universal distribution: +the percussion instruments, or perhaps better instruments for producing +noises that carry the rhythm of the song. In the simplest +cases these are sticks with which boards or other resounding objects +are struck. But besides these we find everywhere the use of some +kind of a drum: wooden, hollow boxes, hollow cylinders or hoops +covered with a drum head of skin. Rattles, and locally other +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_343">[343]</span>devices for producing noises occur. Not so general, for musical +purposes, is the use of wind instruments. Whistles used as calls +are perhaps universal, but the flute or pipe is not used everywhere +as a musical instrument. Still more restricted is the use of stringed +instruments. At the time of the discovery they were entirely unknown +in America. Among primitive tribes, including the whole of +America, song was accompanied only by rhythmic beating on instruments +of percussion. It is interesting to note that the beats did not +always coincide with the accent of the song, but had often an independent, +though coordinated rhythm (see p. <a href="#Page_315">315</a>). Singing in several +parts is also unknown in primitive music. In Africa solo singing +and response of a chorus occurs, and a kind of polyphony due to +the overlapping of these. Sometimes true singing in parts has been +observed in Africa.</p> + +<p>Music is always expressionistic and we are apt to associate with +a tune and rhythm a definite mood, but these associations vary +considerably with local styles. I have referred, in another place, +to the feelings associated among ourselves with the major and minor +keys. These are not by any means shared by people who have +grown up under the influence of another musical style. It is likely +that the symbolic meaning of music alone is vaguer than that of +song; but it is difficult to reach a definite decision in regard to +this question, for there is very little music without song or without +association with symbolic or representative actions. The condition +is perhaps comparable to that found in the symbolic significance of +graphic and plastic arts, the connotations of which are, as we have +seen, certain only when a definite relation between form and implied +content exist. It is intelligible that a type of tune that is always +applied in mourning ceremonies will produce the proper emotional +effect, while the same type of tune without such definite setting +might have quite a different effect.</p> + +<p>The present state of our knowledge of primitive music does not +permit us to establish definite musical areas, but enough is known +to prove that as all other cultural features, we may recognize a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_344">[344]</span>series of musical areas, each characterized by common fundamental +traits. The narrow compass of tunes of east Siberian songs, the +falling cadence with repetition of motives on a falling series of +fundamental tones among the Plains Indians, the antiphony of Negro +songs are examples of this kind. The varying systems of tonality, +the use of purely instrumental music, the kind of accompaniment +of song, are others. It seems quite certain that it will be possible +to determine large areas in which, by diffusion, similar types of +musical art have developed and in which, by subdivision, local +types may be segregated similar in character to those found in +decorative art. Even in the modern folk music of Europe a definite +character of the folkmusic of each nation may be recognized. +Borrowed melodies adapted to local forms illustrate this type of +individuality. As an example of such adaptation I give on the next +page a German song which has been adopted by the Mexicans. It +was probably carried there by the army of Maximilian.</p> + +<p>On account of the interrelation between body movements and +articulations it seems likely that rhythmic body movements release +rhythmic articulations, that is song; and that in this sense, songs +that consist of meaningless syllables may have their origin in +movement. On the other hand the excitement engendered by song +leads to movements that are related to the rhythm of the song, so +that in this sense, a dance is conditioned by the song. We mean +here by dance, the rhythmic movements of any part of the body, +swinging of the arms, movement of the trunk or head, or +movements of the legs and feet. The two forms of expression are +mutually determined.</p> + +<p>We have to remember here the general remarks which we made +in the beginning in regard to all art. We saw that without a formal +element art does not exist. Technical work without fixed form does +not create artistic enjoyment. In the same way violent, expressive +movement born of the passion of the moment is not art. Art as +an expression of feeling requires form as much as art born of the +control of technical processes. If it were not selfevident we might +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_345">[345]</span>have pointed out also that the passionate cry is neither poetry nor +music. It is, therefore, not appropriate to call dance all the violent +movements that occur in the lives of primitive people. We must +reserve the term to movements of fixed form, although it may be +recognized that in the height of excitement dance may turn into a +formless tumult of motion, as music may change to formless cries +of wildest excitement.</p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="music" > + <img class="w100" src="images/i_378.jpg" alt="(Page of Music)"> +<figcaption> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry" lang="de"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Denkst du daran, mein <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: tapfrer" id="tapfrer">tapfer</ins> Lagienka, dass ich dereinst in</div> +<div class="verse indent0">unserm Vaterland, an eurer Spitze nah bei Dubienka, viertausend</div> +<div class="verse indent0">gegen sechzehntausend stand? Denkst du daran, wie ich vom Feind umgeben,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">mit Mühe nur die Freiheit uns gewann? Ich denke</div> +<div class="verse indent0">dran, ich danke dir mein Leben; doch du, Soldat, Soldat denkst du daran.<span class=fnanchor id="FNanchor_de_mus">[<a href="#Footnote_trans1">Trans. 1</a>]</span></div></div> +</div></div> + +<p class="center"> + <audio title="Listen" controls="controls"><source src="music/i_378_music_german.mp3">Audio content is not currently supported on your device.</audio> [<a href="music/i_378_music_german.mxl">MusicXML</a>] +</p> + + + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry" lang="es"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Yo trobador, yo pobre sin fortuna, si te admiro las</div> +<div class="verse indent0">gracias que tu tienes; yo no te veo mas bella que la luna, si te adoro</div> +<div class="verse indent0">me perdonas otra vez. Proscrito yo, en extranjero</div> +<div class="verse indent0">suelo, no hay piedad de un triste trobador. Proscrito</div> +<div class="verse indent0">yo en extranjero suelo, no hay piedad de un triste trobador. +<span class=fnanchor><a id="FNanchor_es_mus" href="#Footnote_trans2" class="label">[Trans. 2]</a></span> + +</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p class="center"> + <audio title="Listen" controls="controls"><source src="music/i_378_music_mexican.mp3">Audio content is not currently supported on your device.</audio> [<a href="music/i_378_music_mexican.mxl">MusicXML</a>] +</p> +</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"> +<a id="Footnote_trans1" href="#FNanchor_de_mus" class="label">[Trans. 1]</a> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Do you remember, my brave Lagienka, that I once stood in</div> +<div class="verse indent0">our fatherland, at your head near Dubienka, four thousand</div> +<div class="verse indent0">against sixteen thousand? Do you remember how I was surrounded by the enemy,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">how hard it was to gain our freedom? I remember,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I owe you my life; but you, soldier, soldier, remember it too.</div></div> +</div></div> +</div> +<div class="footnote" > +<a id="Footnote_trans2" href="#FNanchor_es_mus" class="label">[Trans. 2]</a> +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0"> I troubadour, I poor without fortune, if I admire the</div> +<div class="verse indent0">graces that you have; I don’t see you more beautiful than the moon, if I adore you,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">forgive me again. Banished I, in a foreign</div> +<div class="verse indent0">soil, there is no mercy for a sad troubadour. Banished</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I, in a foreign soil, there is no mercy for a sad troubadour.</div></div> +</div></div> +</div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_346">[346]</span></p> +<p>We observe among all primitive tribes that emotions finding vent +in motor activities adopt a definite form. In this sense dance as +an art form may be purely formal, that is, devoid of symbolic meaning. +Its esthetic effect may be founded on the enjoyment of body movement, +often reinforced by that emotional excitement that is released by the +dance movement. The more formal the dance, the stronger will be +the purely esthetic enjoyment, as against the emotional element.</p> + +<p>We are not well informed in regard to the local distribution of +dance types among primitive people but enough is known to allow +us to state that, as in decorative art and in music, areas of similar +dance forms occur. The joint dances of the Pueblo Indians in +which participate a large number of dancers dressed alike and in formation, +are quite foreign to the North Pacific coast where the single +dance prevails. In the formal woman’s dance of the Northwest +Coast, the dancer stays in the same place with hands raised to the +height of the face, palms forward and trembling. The body movements +are carried on by gentle bending of the knees and slight +swaying of the body. The Koryak dancer who holds the drum, +moves in quite another way, swinging his body from the hips and +beating the drum (see fig. <a href="#fig_73">73</a>, p. 79). Joint dances of the two sexes +are rare and the dancers do not often so move that their bodies are +in intimate contact. We find more frequently either single dances or +a number of performers who repeat the same movements. The +effectiveness of the dance is increased by the order in which the +dancers stand and move.</p> + +<p>Symbolic movements are perhaps even more frequent than purely +formal dance. They are used not only in accompanying song but +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_347">[347]</span>also in oratory, and the muscular play accompanying lively conversation +of both the speaker and the hearer is a manifestation of the +relation between language and symbolic movements. These are also +standardized in each cultural area. The number of organically +determined gestures is very small. Most of them are culturally +patterned. Many are so automatic that they are called forth +immediately by the form of thought. In other cases the speaker +enhances the effect of his words by appropriate gestures and the +meaning of song is often brought out more vividly by significant +movements. Thus the chorus of the Indians of the Pueblo of +Laguna sing:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“In the east rises the sun youth,</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Here westward he moves with life and vegetation.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">Carrying them in his basket while he is walking along.”</div></div> +</div></div> + +<p>When this song is sung the singer faces westward and moves forward. +The word “vegetation” is expressed by pushing the hands +alternately upward; “basket” by describing a wide circle with both +hands and bringing them together in front of the body. The gesture +expresses the act of carrying in a basket. The word “walking” is +indicated by stretching the hands out forward in front of the body +and waving them up and up.</p> + +<p>The Kwakiutl sing as follows:<a id="FNanchor_167_166" href="#Footnote_167_166" class="fnanchor">[167]</a></p> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“I am going around the world eating everywhere with</div> +<div class="verse indent6">Cannibal-at-the-North-End-of-the-World.</div> +<div class="verse indent0">I went to the center of the world; Cannibal-at-the-</div> +<div class="verse indent6">North-End-of-the-World is crying “food”.</div></div> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><div class="footnote"><p class="noindent"> +<a id="Footnote_167_166" href="#FNanchor_167_166" class="label">[167]</a> +F. Boas, Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, +Annual Report of the United States National Museum, 1895, p. 457.</p></div> +</div> +<p>The dancer accompanies this song which is sung by a chorus, with +movements. His arms tremble from right to left. To the words, +“I am going” the arms are stretched out to one side; “All around +the world”, they swing around in a round circle; “I,” the shoulders +are alternately brought forward and backward; “eating everywhere”, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_348">[348]</span>the right hand stretches far out as though it was taking food, and +is then brought to the mouth, while the left describes a wide circle, +indicating “everywhere”; “Cannibal-at-the-North-End-of-the-World”, +both hands are bent inward and the finger tips moved toward the +mouth, meaning “the eater”; “I went” is expressed as before; +“Cannibal-at-North-End-of-the-World is crying ‘food’ for me”, the +sign of the cannibal spirit is made; then the arms are stretched far +backward, the palms turned downward, and the head is lowered, +this being the cannibal spirit’s attitude when crying “food”. “At +the center of the world”, when these words are sung the dancer +is in front of the fire and looks up to the rear of the house in the +characteristic attitude of the cannibal, the rear of the house being +the center of the world.</p> + +<p>The further development of movement accompanying the song +leads to true pantomimic and ultimately to dramatic performances.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_349">[349]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONCLUSION">CONCLUSION</h2></div> + + +<p class="drop-cap">We have now completed our review of the forms of primitive +art and we shall try to sum up the results of our inquiry.</p> + +<p>We have seen that art arises from two sources, from technical +pursuits and from the expression of emotions and thought, as soon +as these take fixed forms. The more energetic the control of form +over uncoordinated movement, the more esthetic the result. Artistic +enjoyment is, therefore, based essentially upon the reaction of our +minds to form. The same kind of enjoyment may be released by +impressions received from forms that are not the handiwork of man, +but they may not be considered as art, although the esthetic reaction +is not different from the one we receive from the contemplation or +the hearing of a work of art. When speaking of artistic production +they must be excluded. When considering only esthetic reactions +they must be included.</p> + +<p>The esthetic effect of artistic work developing from the control +of technique alone is based on the joy engendered by the mastery +of technique and also by the pleasure produced by the perfection +of form. The enjoyment of form may have an elevating effect upon +the mind, but this is not its primary effect. Its source is in part +the pleasure of the virtuoso who overcomes technical difficulties that +baffle his cleverness. As long as no deeper meaning is felt in the +significance of form, its effect is for most individuals, pleasurable, +not elevating.</p> + +<p>We have seen that in the various arts definite formal principles +manifest themselves, the origin of which we did not try to explain, +but which we accepted as present in the art of man the world over, +and which for this reason we considered as the most ancient, the +most fundamental characteristics of all art. In the graphic and +plastic arts these elements are symmetry, rhythm and emphasis of +form. We found symmetry to be very generally right and left and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_350">[350]</span>suggested that this may be due to the symmetry of manual movements +as well as to the observation of right and left symmetry in +animals and in man. We also observed that rhythmic repetition +runs ordinarily in horizontal bands and pointed out the general +experience that natural objects of the same or similar kind are +arranged in horizontal strata, such as woods, mountains, and clouds; +legs, body and limbs. Rhythmic form seems to be closely related +to technical processes, although other causes of rhythmic repetition +are revealed in poetry. The simplest technical processes produce +a simple repetition of the same motives, while with increasing virtuosity +more complex orders become the rule. The more virtuosity +is developed, the more complex are the rhythms that are liable to +make their appearance. The ability of primitive artists to appreciate +rhythm seems to be much greater than our own.</p> + +<p>The desire to emphasize form made itself felt in the application +of lines to the rim. We also observed the tendency of the rim +designs to become exuberant and to encroach upon the decorative +field. No less important is the tendency to attach ornament to +prominent places of the decorated object and to divide the decorative +field according to fixed principles.</p> + +<p>While the features so far considered are common characteristics +of art the world over, they do not explain the style of separate +areas. We considered this problem in some detail in the field of +decorative art. Here our attention was first arrested by the fact +that purely formal art, or perhaps better, art that is apparently +purely formal, is given a meaning endowing it with an emotional +value that does not belong to the beauty of form alone. It is an +expressionistic element that is common to many forms of primitive +art. It is effective because in the mind of the tribes certain forms +are symbols of a limited range of ideas. The firmer the association +between a form and a definite idea, the more clearly stands out the +expressionistic character of the art. This is true in the graphic and +plastic arts as well as in music. In the former a geometrical form, +in the latter a sound cluster, a particular type of musical phrasing, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_351">[351]</span>if associated with a definite meaning, evokes definite emotions or even +concepts. A study of these conditions shows also that a uniform +reaction to form is indispensable for the effectiveness of an expressionistic +art, a condition which is not fulfilled in our own modern +society, so that an expressionistic art can appeal only to a circle of +adepts who follow the lines of thought and feeling developed by a +master. Symbolic art can still be applied successfully in the case +of a few symbols that have fixed associations which are valid for +all of us.</p> + +<p>The wide distribution of symbolic forms and the remoteness of +their resemblance to the objects they symbolize led us to a consideration +of the question of their history. We examined particularly the +theory that all artistic reproduction is by origin naturalistic and that +geometrization grows up only when the artist tries to introduce +ideas that are not inherent in the object itself. We saw that this +theory cannot be maintained, because realistic representation and +geometrization spring from distinctive sources. In plastic art the +contrast between the two tendencies does not appear as clearly as +in graphic art. In the former it is found more in surface treatment +than in general outline. In graphic art the matter is complicated +by the difficulties involved in representing a three-dimensional object +on a two-dimensional surface, a problem which the artist has to solve. +This may be done in one of two ways. Either a perspective representation +of the object as it appears at a given moment may be +attempted, or the artist may decide that the essential point is to +show all its characteristic parts, no matter whether they are visible +in a single view or not. The former method lays stress upon the +accidental features, it is impressionistic; the latter stresses those +elements that are felt to constitute the fundamental qualities of the +object, it is expressionistic. The two methods which we called the +symbolic and the perspective are absolutely distinct and the one +cannot be developed from the other. We have also seen that the +consistent application of the perspective method is reached only +when we introduce also the principle of indistinctness of those points +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_352">[352]</span>that are removed from the center of the field of vision and that of +dependence of color upon environment. Both of these have been tried +in our day, without having found general acceptance. The symbolic +method is always more or less wavering in the application of its +principle. Sometimes perspective correctness of outline is attempted +with a considerable degree of freedom in regard to the detailed treatment +of those symbols that are considered important. Of this character +are the Egyptian paintings with their vacillation between front +and side views. In other cases the realism of outline is entirely +sacrificed and the form may be reduced to a mere assembly of +symbols.</p> + +<p>The theory has been advanced that geometric ornament developed +through the degeneration of perspective designs; in part perhaps +also through that of symbolic designs. It is assumed that the symbol, +or the object represented was misunderstood and that in course +of time through a process of slurring, by careless and inaccurate +representation the forms became fragmentary and finally lost all +semblance to the original. It is not possible to accept this theory, +because the conditions under which the supposed slurring occurs +are seldom realized. Slovenly work does not occur in an untouched +primitive culture. Misunderstandings may happen in cases of borrowing +of designs or in that of a gradual transformation of those concepts +that find expression in decorative art. Actual slurring is found +in factory production. By an examination of a few cases of this +kind we were able to show that it does not lead to geometrization, +but to the growth of an individualism akin to that of our handwriting. +It cannot be denied that in such cases occasion for re-interpretation +with consequent changes of form occur, but these are not +frequent. On the other hand we were able to show that reading in +of realistic meanings into geometric forms is quite common. We +proved this by means of a detailed comparison of the style of +painting and embroidery of the North American Plains Indians +which we found to be practically identical everywhere, while the +interpretations varied from tribe to tribe. This phenomenon agrees +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_353">[353]</span>with the general tendency to keep intact the form, but to endow it +with new meaning according to the chief cultural interests of the +people. We pointed out the prevalence of the same tendency in +folk-tales and ritual. As a general explanation the geometrization of +realistic patterns is, therefore, unacceptable. In the majority of cases +it seems to be rather due to the inclination of man to give a +meaning to geometric form, as we enjoy reading meanings into the +forms of clouds and mountains. We were also able to describe +a few cases in which the process of reading in has actually been +observed.</p> + +<p>Another fact prevents us from considering geometrization as a +general historical process. It is very seldom only that the steps +are found so distributed that they can be proved to follow one another +in time. Much oftener all are found at the same time among +the same people.</p> + +<p>Considering all these points we reached the conclusion that the +stylistic form which contains to a greater or lesser extent constant +geometrical elements, is decisive in determining the manner in which +representations are rendered. We were thus led to the attempt to +find the principles underlying art styles.</p> + +<p>We approached this subject by the study of a few art forms. +We compared a number of art styles that make use of the spiral +and found in each characteristic traits, as well regarding the form of +the spiral as in the handling of the decorative field. In the same +way we observed that in the art of the North American Indians +the same kind of triangles and rectangles are used by all the tribes, +but that there exist typical differences in the treatment of the +decorative field. The problem was carried through in some detail +by means of a study of the decorative art of the North Pacific coast +which is highly symbolic in character. This example taught us an +additional point, namely that in symbolic art the selection of symbols +is of decisive importance in defining the style and that the arrangement +of the symbols is subject to the same formal treatment of the +decorative field which control the arrangement of geometrical motives.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_354">[354]</span></p> +<p>On the basis of this study we conclude that the particular types +of geometrical motives that enter into the representative form, as +well as the treatment of the decorative field determine the character +of the design and that the degree of realism depends upon the +relative importance of the geometric and representative elements. +When the purely decorative tendency prevails we have essentially +geometrical, highly conventionalized forms, when the idea of representation +prevails, we have, on the contrary, more realistic forms. +In every case, however, the formal element that characterizes the +style, is older than the particular type of representation. This does +not signify that early representations do not occur, it means that +the method of representation was always controlled by formal elements +of distinctive origin.</p> + +<p>The pattern of artistic expression that emerges from a long, +cumulative process determined by a multiplicity of causes fashions +the form of the art work. We recognize the permanence of pattern +in those cases in which a useful form that has lost its function +persists as a decorative element; in the imitation in new materials +of natural forms used at one time as utensils, and in the transfer +of forms from one technique to another. The fixity of the pattern +does not permit the artist to apply natural forms unmodified to +decorative purposes. His imagination is limited by the pattern. In +cases of greater freedom the representative value may not be +seriously encroached upon. Such is the case for instance, with +the oriental palmetto and the ear ornaments of the Marquesas Islands, +on which in olden times two deities were represented, back +to back, while nowadays two girls in a swing are carved, in exactly +the same spacial arrangement. When the pattern is highly formal +and not adapted to representation, an apparent geometrization may +be the result. The distinction between these two aspects appears +clearly in those cases in which pictography and symbolic geometric +art appear side by side.</p> + +<p>The art of the North Pacific coast proved also that we must not +assume that the style of a tribe must always be uniform, but that +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_355">[355]</span>it is quite possible that in different industries, particularly when +carried along by different parts of the population, quite distinctive +styles may prevail. The excellence and consistency of a style as +well as the multiplicity of forms depend upon the perfection of +technique. We found, therefore, that in those cases in which +technical work is done by the men alone, they are the creative +artists, that when the women do a great deal of technical work they +are no less productive, and that when the two sexes carry on +different industries they may develop distinctive styles. It is, however, +more frequent that the style of a dominant industry may be +imposed upon work made by other processes. Weaving in coarse +material seemed to be a most fertile source of patterns that are +imitated in paintings, carvings, and pottery.</p> + +<p>A comparison of the fundamental elements that are found in the +graphic and plastic arts,—in the arts of space,—as contrasted +with those of poetry, music, and dance,—the arts of time,—brings +out certain differences and similarities. Common to both are rhythm, +and it seems likely that the rhythm of technique is merely a spacial +expression of the rhythm of time, in so far as the rhythmic movements +result in rhythmic forms when applied to technical pursuits. +We may perhaps also speak in both types of art of attempts to +emphasize closed forms, for often we find musical phrases, and +single ideas in poetry closed by what might be called a decorative +end, consisting of burdens or of codas. Similar elements may also +appear as introductions in the beginning. Completely lacking in the +pure arts of time is symmetry, because an inverted time order does +not convey the impression of symmetry, as is the case in the arts +of space. It occurs only in a symmetrical arrangement of phrases. +Dance contains elements of both the spacial and time arts. Therefore, +the principles of the former may be clearly observed in dance forms. +Rhythmic movements and rhythmic spacial order, symmetry of position +and of movement, and emphasis and balance of form are essential +in esthetic dance forms.</p> + +<p>The graphic and plastic arts owe much of their emotional value +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_356">[356]</span>to the representative and symbolic values of form. This is no less +true in literature, music and dance. Narrative and poetry so far +as they contain intelligible words, always have a meaning which may +have a deep significance because they touch upon those aspects of +life that stir the emotions. Frequently there is an added meaning, +when the words have a symbolic, ulterior significance related +to religious beliefs or philosophical ideas. In music and dance also +symbolic significance is often attached to form.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>We are at the end of our considerations, but one question remains +to be answered. We have seen that the desire for artistic +expression is universal. We may even say that the mass of the +population in primitive society feels the need of beautifying their +lives more keenly than civilized man, at least more than those +whose lives are spent under the urgent necessity of acquiring the +meagre means of sustenance. But among others also the desire for +comfort has often superseded the desire for beauty. Among primitive +people the <span lang="grc">καλὸν κἀγαθόν</span> coincide. Goodness and beauty are +the same. Do they then possess the same keenness of esthetic +appreciation that is found at least in part of our population? I +believe we may safely say that in the narrow field of art that is +characteristic of each people the enjoyment of beauty is quite the +same as among ourselves: intense among a few, slight among the +mass. The readiness to abandon one’s self to the exaltation induced +by art, is probably greater, because the conventional restraint of +our times does not exist in the same forms in their lives. What +distinguishes modern esthetic feeling from that of primitive people +is the manifold character of its manifestations. We are not so much +bound by a fixed style. The complexity of our social structure and +our more varied interests allow us to see beauties that are closed +to the senses of people living in a narrower culture. It is the +quality of their experience, not a difference in mental make-up that +determines the difference between modern and primitive art production +and art appreciation.</p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_357">[357]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="TEXT_FIGURES">TEXT FIGURES</h2></div> + + +<table class="autotable wd90"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl" colspan="3"></td> +<td class="tdr fs60">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdlt">Fig.</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_1">1.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front of painted box, Tlingit, Alaska (A. M. N. H. 19/1074)</td> +<td class="tdrb">18</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_2">2.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Jar from Zuni (A. M. N. H. 50.1/3333)</td> +<td class="tdrb">19</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_3_4">3.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Coiled basketry</td> +<td class="tdrb">20</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_3_4">4.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Twined basketry (From G. T. Emmons, Basketry of the Tlingit, Memoirs A. M. N. H., Vol. 3, fig. 294, p. 240)</td> +<td class="tdrb">20</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_5">5.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chipped flint implements; <i>a</i>, American Indian, A. M. N. H. T 18542; <i>b</i>, Egypt, A. M. N. H. 75.0/820</td> +<td class="tdrb">21</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_6">6.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Part of surface of wooden sail, Kwakiutl Indians, Vancouver Island (A. M. N. H. 16.1/1744)</td> +<td class="tdrb">23</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_7">7.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted board, Tierra del Fuego (After Wilhelm Koppers, <span lang="de">Unter Feuerland-Indianern</span>, fig. 6, p. 48)</td> +<td class="tdrb">23</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_8">8.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Bushman designs; to the left, designs from ostrich eggs (After Felix +von Luschan, <span lang="de">Zeitschrift für Ethnologie</span>, Vol. 55, pp. 32, 33, 37); to + +the right above (From Leonhard Schultze, <span lang="de">Aus Namaland und Kalahari</span>, p. 672); to the + right below, bracelet made of horn (After E. von Sydow, <span lang="de">Die Kunst der Naturvölker + und der Vorzeit</span>, p. 158)</td> +<td class="tdrb">23</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_9">9.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Kaffer headrests (After Henrik P. M. Muller and John F. Snelleman, +<span lang="fr">L’Industrie des Caffres</span>, Pl. XIV, figs. 4 and 5)</td> +<td class="tdrb">23</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_10">10.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Paddle and shield, New Ireland (A. M. N. H. S 2266, S 1409)</td> +<td class="tdrb">25</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_11_12">11.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Plan of rawhide box, Sauk and Fox Indians</td> +<td class="tdrb">26</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_11_12">12.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Rawhide box, Sauk and Fox Indians</td> +<td class="tdrb">26</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_13_14">13.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on rawhide for a box, Sauk and Fox Indians (A. M. N. H. 50/3594)</td> +<td class="tdrb">27</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_13_14">14.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on rawhide for a box, Sauk and Fox Indians (A. M. N. H. 50/3596)</td> +<td class="tdrb">27</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_15">15.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Design on rawhide for a box, Sauk and Fox Indians, Public Museum +of the City of Milwaukee, 30740; <i>b</i>, Design on rawhide for a box, +Sauk and Fox Indians (A. M. N. H. 50/2284)</td> +<td class="tdrb">28</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_16">16.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Fringe from legging, Thompson Indians (From James Teit, The Thompson +Indians, Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. I, +fig. 313, p. 384)</td> +<td class="tdrb">29</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_17">17.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Twilled weaving showing alternation of patterns (A. M N. H. 16/8191)</td> +<td class="tdrb">30</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_18">18.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carving on bow of Bella Bella canoe, British Columbia (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">30</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_19_20">19.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Rattle used in twin ceremonial. Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia +(A. M. N. H. 16/8282)</td> +<td class="tdrb">31</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_19_20">20.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Base of flint knife, Scandinavia (After Sophus Müller, <span lang="de">Nordische Altertumskunde</span>, +fig. 97, p. 190)</td> +<td class="tdrb">31</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_21">21.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Face painting, Tierra del Fuego (After Wilhelm Koppers, <span lang="de">Unter +Feuerland-Indianern</span>, Pl. V)</td> +<td class="tdrb">32 </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_22">22.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Australian shields (A. M. N. H. S 3957, S 421)</td> +<td class="tdrb">33<span class="pagenum">[358]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_23">23.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"> Paleolithic paintings (After Hugo Obermaier, Fossil Man in Spain, fig. +104, p. 234)</td> +<td class="tdrb">33</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_24">24.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"> Patterns from bamboo combs (After Vaughn Stevens, <span lang="de">Zeitschrift für +Ethnologie</span>, Vol. XXV, Pl. I)</td> +<td class="tdrb">35</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_25">25.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"> Designs from bamboo spear, New Guinea (<span lang="de">Museum für Völkerkunde, +Hamburg</span>. After Ernst Fuhrmann, Neu Guinea, p. 114)</td> +<td class="tdrb">35</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_26">26.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Etruscan vase (After M. Ebert,<span lang="de"> Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte</span>, Vol. +III, Pl. XXVIII c, p. 140)</td> +<td class="tdrb">35</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_27">27.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian designs (After Inca, Vol. I, fig. 32, p. 230)</td> +<td class="tdrb">35</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_28_30">28.</a></td><td class="tdl">Painted rawhide bags, Shuswap, British Columbia (From James Teit, +The Shuswap, Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, +Vol. II, fig. 220, p. 498)</td> +<td class="tdrb">36</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_29">29.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Dayak (After Alois Raimund Hein, <span lang="de">Die bildenden +Künste bei den Dayaks auf Borneo</span>, Pl. IV, fig. 6; Pl. V, fig. 1)</td> +<td class="tdrb">37</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_28_30">30.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved board, Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, New Guinea (<span lang="de">Museum für +Völkerkunde</span>, Hamburg. After E. Fuhrmann, Neu Guinea, p. 112). +The two reversed spiral elements are indicated by dark and light shading.</td> +<td class="tdrb">36</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_31">31.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Designs from pottery of ancient Pueblos (After J. Walter Fewkes, +An Archaeological Collection from Youngs Canyon near Flagstaff, Arizona, +Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Vol. 77, No. 10, Pl. 4<i>e</i>). +<i>b</i>, Designs from pottery of ancient Pueblos (After J. Walter Fewkes, +Designs on Prehistoric Pottery from Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, +<i>Ibid.</i> Vol. 74, No. 6, fig. 36, p. 33)</td> +<td class="tdrb">37</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_32">32.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Bronze ornament, Sweden, 7th Century A. D. +(After E. von Sydow, +<span lang="de">Die Kunst der Naturvölker und der Vorzeit</span>, p. 480)</td> +<td class="tdrb">38</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_33">33.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Design from Peruvian textile (After Walter Lehmann, <span lang="de">Kunstgeschichte +des alten Peru</span>, Pl. 4, p. 20)</td> +<td class="tdrb">38</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_34">34.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from Peruvian textile (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 3, p. 16)</td> +<td class="tdrb">39</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_35">35.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Pot of coiled pottery, prehistoric Pueblo Indians (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">40</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_36">36.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Necklace of +Thompson Indians (After Gladys A. Reichard, American +Anthropologist, Vol. XXIV, 1922, p. 188)</td> +<td class="tdrb">41</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_37">37.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Koryak embroidery +(From W. Jochelson, The Koryak, Jesup North +Pacific Expedition, Vol. VI, fig. 206, p. 690). <i>b</i>, Koryak embroidery +(<i>Ibid.</i> fig. 210, p. 693)</td> +<td class="tdrb">43</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_38">38.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, Koryak embroideries (<i>Ibid.</i> figs. 211-215, p. 693-696)</td> +<td class="tdrb">45</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_39">39.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Peruvian embroidery from Ica (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">47</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_40">40.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (The Necropolis of Ancon, + W. Reiss and A. Stübel, +Vol. II, Pl. 67 <i>b</i>, fig. 3)</td> +<td class="tdrb">49</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_41">41.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 67, fig. 6)</td> +<td class="tdrb">49</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_42">42.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 48, fig. 2)</td> +<td class="tdrb">50<span class="pagenum">[359]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_43">43.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 61)</td> +<td class="tdrb">50</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_44">44.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 66 <i>a</i>, fig. 1)</td> +<td class="tdrb">51</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_45">45.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 68 <i>a</i>, fig. 3)</td> +<td class="tdrb">51</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_46">46.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Peruvian fabric (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. 66, fig. 3)</td> +<td class="tdrb">51</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_47">47.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Patterns from Mexican Codex (Codex Nuttall)</td> +<td class="tdrb">53</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_48">48.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Pottery vessel from Finland + (After M. Ebert, <span lang="de">Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte</span>, +Vol. III, Pl. 125 <i>k</i>). <i>b</i>, Pottery vessel, Ica, Peru, A. M. N. H.</td> +<td class="tdrb">55</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_49">49.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, Birchbark vessels + from the Amur River (From Berthold Laufer, +The Decorative Art of the Amur Tribes, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, +Vol. IV, Pl. 20). <i>c</i>, Birchbark basket, Shuswap, British Columbia. +<i>d</i>, <i>e</i>, Bark buckets, Alaska (<i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, <i>e</i>, from James Teit, The Shuswap, +Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. II, figs. 205, 207).</td> +<td class="tdrb">56</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_50">50.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, Pottery vessels, + Chiriqui, Costa Rica (After G. G. MacCurdy, +A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities, Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy +of Arts and Sciences, Vol. III [1911], figs. 92, 85). <i>c</i>, Fort Colburne, +Ontario (After 31st. Ann. Archaeological Report, Ontario, 1919, p. 83).</td> +<td class="tdrb">57</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_51">51.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Part of soapstone kettle; + <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>, Ivory combs, Eskimo (From F. +Boas, The Eskimo of Baffinland and Hudson Bay, Bull. A. M. N. H. +Vol. XV, 1907, figs. 215, 254)</td> +<td class="tdrb">58</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_52">52.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Wood carving, Bambala, Congo (After Torday and Joyce,<span lang="fr"> Notes ethnographiques +sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, etc. Les +Bushongo, Documents ethnographiques concernant les populations du +Congo Belge</span>, Vol. II, Pl. 25, fig. 7)</td> +<td class="tdrb">59</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_53_54_55">53.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Pottery vessel, Molkenberg type, Megalithic + period (After M. Ebert, +<span lang="de">Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte</span>, Vol. III, Pl. 11, p. 84)</td> +<td class="tdrb">60</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_53_54_55">54.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Pouch, Arapaho (From A. L. Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bull. A. M. +N. H. Vol. XVIII, fig. 23 <i>c</i>, p. 89)</td> +<td class="tdrb">60</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_53_54_55">55.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Embroidered Moccasin, Apache, A. M. N. H. 50/8622 <i>b</i></td> +<td class="tdrb">60</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_56">56.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, Birchbark vessels, + eastern Indians (From James Teit, The Shuswap, +Vol. II, fig. 214). <i>d</i>, Birchbark vessels, Koryak (From W. Jochelson, +The Koryak, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. VI, fig. 192 <i>c</i>, p. 675).</td> +<td class="tdrb">61</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_57">57.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Pottery vessel, Arkansas (After W. H. + Holmes, Aboriginal Pottery of +the eastern United States, 20th Annual Report Bureau of American +Ethnology, Pl. XXV)</td> +<td class="tdrb">61</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_58">58.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Imbricated basket, Chilcotin, British Columbia (After James Teit, +The Shuswap, Vol. II, fig. 268, p. 772)</td> +<td class="tdrb">62</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_59">59.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Embroidery, Huichol Indians, Mexico (From Carl Lumholtz, Decorative +Art of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs A. M. N. H., Vol. III, Part 3, fig. 430, p. 303)</td> +<td class="tdrb">65</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>b</i>, Symbolism of the Huichol Indian, <i>Ibid.</i> Part. 1, fig. 92, p. 92</td> +<td class="tdrb">66</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_59_60">60.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Decorated fishskin garment, Amur River (After Berthold Laufer, The +Decorative Art of the Amur Tribes, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. +IV, Pl. 30)</td> +<td class="tdrb">66<span class="pagenum">[360]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_61">61.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Upper row, pictographs of Ojibwa Indians; + lower row, pictographs +of Dakota Indians (From Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of American +Indians, 10th Annual Report Bureau of American Ethnology, figs. +168 and 184 et seq.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">67</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_62">62.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Mexican painting from Codex Borbonicus + (After Eduard Seler, Gesammelte +Abhandlungen, Vol. IV, p. 139)</td> +<td class="tdrb">68</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_63">63.</a> </td><td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Carved figure, Philippine Islands +(After E. von Sydow, <span lang="de">Die Kunst +der Naturvölker und der Vorzeit</span>, p. 273). <i>b</i>, Marble figure representing +harpist (After Helmuth Th. Bossert, Altkreta, fig. 17 <i>b</i>.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">69</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_64_65">64.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Wooden mask, + Urua, Congo (After Herbert Kühn, <span lang="de">Die Kunst der +Primitiven</span>, Pl. XXIX)</td> +<td class="tdrb">70</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_64_65">65.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Carved board, + Papua Gulf, New Guinea (After Herbert Kühn, <span lang="de">Die +Kunst der Primitiven</span>, Pl. LIV)</td> +<td class="tdrb">70</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_66">66.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Egyptian painting (After Heinrich Schäfer, <span lang="de">Von Ägyptischer Kunst</span> +fig. 200, p. 257)</td> +<td class="tdrb">71</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_67">67.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Haida drawing representing eagle carrying away a woman; original +by Charles Edensaw</td> +<td class="tdrb">71</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_68">68.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Egyptian drawings, <i>a</i>, Bowl and pitcher; + <i>b</i>, Sleeping person covered +by blanket (After Heinrich Schäfer, <span lang="de">Von Ägyptischer Kunst</span>, p. 111)</td> +<td class="tdrb">75</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_69">69.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Eskimo etching on + walrus tusk, Alaska (A. M. N. H. 60/239)</td> +<td class="tdrb">76</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_70">70.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Bushman rock + paintings (After Moszeik, <span lang="de">Die Malereien der Buschmänner +in Südafrika</span>, Pl. I, fig. 236)</td> +<td class="tdrb">76</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_71">71.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Paleolithic +painting representing bison + (After Hugo Obermaier, Fossil +Man in Spain, Pl. I)</td> +<td class="tdrb">77</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_72">72.</a> </td> +<td class="tdl">Hat of the Nootka Indians (After Handbook of the Ethnographic +collections, British Museum, fig. 235, p. 256)</td> +<td class="tdrb">78</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_73">73.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Koryak carvings +(From W. Jochelson, The Koryak, Jesup North +Pacific Expedition, Vol. 6, figs. 170, 172, 175)</td> +<td class="tdrb">79</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_74">74.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Bronze casting, +Benin (After Felix von Luschan, +<span lang="de"> Alterthümer von Benin</span>, +Pl. LI)</td> +<td class="tdrb">81</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_75_76">75.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Headmask, +Cross River, Cameroon (After Ernst Vatter, <span lang="de">Religiöse +Plastik der Naturvölker</span>, 1926, fig. 57)</td> +<td class="tdrb">82</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_75_76">76.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Terra cotta head +from Ife, Yoruba country (After Herbert Kühn,<span lang="de"> Die +Kunst der Primitiven</span>, p. 92)</td> +<td class="tdrb">82</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_77">77.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Pottery head from Arkansas (After W. H. Holmes, Aboriginal Pottery +of the eastern United States, 20th Annual Report Bureau of American +Ethnology, Pl. XXX)</td> +<td class="tdrb">85</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_78">78.</a> </td><td class="tdl">Ivory and bone carvings, and tattooing of eastern Eskimo (From F. +Boas, Eskimo of Baffinland and Hudson Bay, Bulletin A. M. N. H. +Vol, XV. figs. 257, 258, 268).</td> +<td class="tdrb">86<span class="pagenum">[361]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_79_80">79.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><span lang="de">Ornaments of the Auetö</span>, Brazil (After Karl + von den Steinen, <span lang="de">Unter +den Naturvölkern Zentral Brasiliens</span>, Pl. XXII).</td> +<td class="tdrb">89</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_79_80">80.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Ornaments of the Karayá (After Paul Ehrenreich, <span lang="de">Die Karayástämme +am Rio Araguaya</span> (Goyaz); <span lang="de">Veröffentlichungen aus dem Museum für +Völkerkunde</span>, Berlin. Vol. II, fig. 11, p. 25).</td> +<td class="tdrb">89</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_81">81.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Basketry patterns from British Guyana, <i>a</i>, snake pursuing frog; <i>b</i>, +man; <i>c.</i>, dog; <i>d-f</i>, wild nutmeg (From Walter Edmond Roth, An Introductory +Study of the arts, crafts, and customs of the Guyana Indians, +38th Annual Report Bureau of American Ethnology, figs. 168, 178).</td> +<td class="tdrb">90</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_82">82.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Basketry patterns from British Guyana; <i>a</i>, centiped; <i>b</i>, savannah +grass; <i>c-f</i>, periwinkles; <i>g</i>, butterflies; <i>h-j</i>, snakes, <i>Ibid.</i> fig. 169.</td> +<td class="tdrb">91</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_83">83.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Cheyenne Indians (After Paul Ehrenreich,<span lang="de"> Ethnologisches +Notizblatt</span>, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 27-29, 1899).</td> +<td class="tdrb">92</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_84_85">84.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Moccasin, Arapaho (After A. L. Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bulletin A. M. +N. H. Vol. XVIII, fig. 5<i>b</i>, p. 39).</td> +<td class="tdrb">94</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_84_85">85.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Knife case, Arapaho (<i>Ibid.</i> fig. 22, p. 88).</td> +<td class="tdrb">94</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_86">86.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Legging, Sioux Indians (After Clark Wissler, Decorative Art of the +Sioux Indians, Bulletin A. M. N. H. Vol. XVIII, Pl. LI, fig. 5).</td> +<td class="tdrb">95</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_87">87.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Drum of the Assiniboine (From Robert H. Lowie, The Assiniboine, +Vol. IV, Anthropological Papers A. M. N. H. fig. 11, p. 27).</td> +<td class="tdrb">96</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_88_89">88.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Rawhide bag, Arapaho (After A. L. Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bulletin +A. M. N. H. Vol. XVIII, fig. 33, p. 115).</td> +<td class="tdrb">97</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_88_89">89.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design from parfleche, Shoshone (A. M. N. H. 50/2299).</td> +<td class="tdrb">97</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_90_91">90.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Bamboo case from Friedrich-Wilhelm Hafen, New Guinea, (After +Emil Stephan, <span lang="de">Südseekunst</span>, p. 101).</td> +<td class="tdrb">98</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_90_91">91.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Zuni bowl, broken and edges ground down, (private property).</td> +<td class="tdrb">98</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_92">92.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Ceremonial object, Huichol Indians, Mexico (From Karl Lumholtz, +Symbolism of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs A. M. N. H. Vol III, +fig. 133, p. 125)</td> +<td class="tdrb">99</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_93">93.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Woven ceremonial object, Huichol Indians, Mexico (From Karl Lumholtz, +Symbolism of the Huichol Indians, <i>Ibid.</i> fig. 173, p. 146).</td> +<td class="tdrb">101</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_94">94.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design from a pouch, Huichol Indians (From Karl Lumholtz, +Decorative art of the Huichol Indians, Memoirs A. M. N. H. Vol. III, +Pt. 3, fig. 527, p. 325).</td> +<td class="tdrb">101</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_95">95.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooed designs, Marquesas (After Karl von den Steinen,<span lang="de"> Die +Marquesaner und ihre Kunst</span>, <i>a</i>, fig. 103, p. 155; <i>b</i>, fig. 101, p. 154; +<i>c</i>, fig. 99, p. 152; <i>d</i>, fig. 100, p. 153; <i>e</i>, fig. 112, p. 163).</td> +<td class="tdrb">101</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_96">96.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Patterns representing the star, Arapaho (After A. L. Kroeber, Decorative +art of the Arapaho, Bulletin A. M. N. H. Vol. XVIII).</td> +<td class="tdrb">103<span class="pagenum">[362]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_97">97.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Patterns representing persons (<i>Ibid.</i>).</td> +<td class="tdrb">104</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_98">98.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Patterns representing butterfly (<i>Ibid.</i>).</td> +<td class="tdrb">104</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_99">99.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from Neu-Mecklenburg, <i>a</i>, Carved bamboo; <i>b</i>, embroidered +mat (After Emil Stephan and Fritz Gräbner,<span lang="de"> Neu-Mecklenburg</span>, +<i>a</i>, fig. 120, p. 114; <i>b.</i> Pl. I, fig. 3).</td> +<td class="tdrb">104</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_100_101_102">100.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Embroidered knife sheath, Arapaho (From A. L. Kroeber, Decorative +art of the Arapaho, Bulletin A. M. N. H. Vol. XVIII, Pl. 13, fig. 5).</td> +<td class="tdrb">107</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_100_101_102">101.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted board, Neu-Mecklenburg (After Emil Stephan and Fritz +Gräbner, <span lang="de">Neu-Mecklenburg</span>, Pl. IX, fig. 8).</td> +<td class="tdrb">107</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_100_101_102">102.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Decorated paddle, <span lang="de">Neu-Mecklenburg</span> (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. VI, fig. 3 b).</td> +<td class="tdrb">107</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_103">103.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Blanket of mountain-goat wool, Tlingit, Alaska (From G. T. Emmons, +The Chilkat Blanket, Memoirs A. M. N. H. Vol. III, fig. 567, p. 377).</td> +<td class="tdrb">108</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_104">104.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Basketry patterns of the Pomo Indians, California (After S. A. Barrett, +Pomo Indian Basketry, Univ. California Publications, Vol. 7, No. +3. pp. 180, 182, 187, 190, 204, 232).</td> +<td class="tdrb">109</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_105">105.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Drawn work, Mexico (From Journal of American Folk-lore, Vol. 33, +1920, p. 73).</td> +<td class="tdrb">110</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_106">106.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Ruanda (After Jan Czekanowski, <span lang="de">Wissenschaftliche +Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition</span>, 1907-1908, +Vol. VI, Part 1, p. 330).</td> +<td class="tdrb">111</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_107">107.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Pangwe (After Günther Tessmann, <span lang="de">Die Pangwe</span>, +Berlin 1913, Vol. I, fig. 211, p. 254).</td> +<td class="tdrb">112</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_108">108.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Bushongo (After E. Torday and T. A. Joyce, <span lang="fr">Les Bushongo, +Documents ethnographiques concernant les populations du Congo +Belge</span>, figs. 322, 323, 219, 330).</td> +<td class="tdrb">113</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_109">109.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Feet of flat pottery dishes, Chiriqui, Costa Rica (After G. G. MacCurdy, +A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities, Mem. Connecticut Academy +of Arts and Sciences, Vol. III [1911], figs. 140, 141, 139, 135).</td> +<td class="tdrb">114</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_110">110.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Polynesian ornaments (After Charles H. Read, Journal of the Anthropological +Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 21 [1892] Pl. 12).</td> +<td class="tdrb">115</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_111">111.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Crocodile arrows, New Guinea (After A. C. Haddon, The Decorative +Art of British New Guinea, Cunningham Memoir, Royal Irish +Academy, X [1894] fig. 19).</td> +<td class="tdrb">115</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_112">112.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs representing frigate bird and crocodile (<i>Ibid.</i> Pl. XII).</td> +<td class="tdrb">116</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_113">113.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Facial urns (After M. Ebert,<span lang="de"> Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte</span>, Vol. IV, +Pl. 116).</td> +<td class="tdrb">117</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_114">114.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Armadillo designs, Chiriqui (After G. G. MacCurdy, <i>l. c.</i> figs. 77, 78)</td> +<td class="tdrb">117</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_115">115.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of the Bushongo representing the head of the antelope +and the beetle (From E. Torday and T. A. Joyce, <span lang="fr">Notes ethnographiques +sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba etc. Les Bushongo, +Documents ethnographiques concernant les populations du Congo +Belge</span>, p. 211).</td> +<td class="tdrb">117</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_116">116.</a> <span class="pagenum">[363]</span></td> +<td class="tdl">Design representing the buffalo, Arapaho (From A. L. Kroeber, Decorative +Art of the Arapaho, Bulletin A. M. N. H. Vol. XIII, p. 85).</td> +<td class="tdrb">119</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_117">117.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs of North American Indians; the first nine, Arapaho (After +A. L. Kroeber, Decorative Art of the Arapaho, Bulletin A. M. N. H. +Vol. XVIII); the next six, Eastern Algonquin (After Frank G. Speck, +The Double Curve Motive of Northeastern Algonkian Art, Geological +Survey of Canada, Anthropological Series No. 1); the last line; first, +Hopi; then archaeological specimens, Pueblo region.</td> +<td class="tdrb">120</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_118">118.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Triangular design, prehistoric Pueblo (After J. W. Fewkes, Preliminary +Account of an Expedition to the Pueblo Ruins near Winslow, +Arizona, Smithsonian Report for 1896, Pl. 34).</td> +<td class="tdrb">121</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_119">119.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Alaskan needle cases (After F. Boas, Decorative Designs of Alaskan +Needle Cases, Proceedings United States National Museum, Vol. +34, p. 321 et seq., 1908).</td> +<td class="tdrb">125</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_120">120.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Reels of Alaskan Eskimo (United States National Museum, numbers +from above downwards, 44 994, 33 095, 38 276, 33 267, 45 110).</td> +<td class="tdrb">126</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_121">121.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Eye shades and vessel, Ammassalik (After W. Thalbitzer, The +Ammassalik Eskimo,<span lang="de"> Meddelelser om Grønland</span>, Vol. XXXIX, fig. 278, +and after Hjalmar Stolpe, On Evolution in the Ornamental Art of +Savage Peoples, figs. 22, 24, p. 80).</td> +<td class="tdrb">127</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_122">122.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from vessels made of tree calabashes, Oaxaca, (Private +collection).</td> +<td class="tdrb">131</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_123_124">123.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Fragments of pottery vessels, Texcoco, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">132</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_123_124">124.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">132</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_125">125.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">133</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_126">126.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">135</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_127">127.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">135</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_128">128.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from pottery vessels, Culhuacan, D. F., Mexico.</td> +<td class="tdrb">135</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_129">129.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Alligator designs from Chiriqui pottery (A. M. N. H. 30.0/1881; +7608; 5760; 1098; 5727).</td> +<td class="tdrb">137</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_130">130.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chinese embroidery representing bats (After A. H. Balfour, The Evolution +of Decorative Art, fig. 18, p. 50).</td> +<td class="tdrb">141</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_131">131.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Shell with representation of rattle snake (After W. H. Holmes, +Art in Shell, 2nd Annual Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, Pl. 62, 2; +Pl. 65, 2, 4, 6; Pl. 66, 2).</td> +<td class="tdrb">142</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_132">132.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Throwing sticks of the Eskimo (<i>a</i>, Greenland, <i>b</i>, Ungava Bay, <i>c</i>, +Cumberland Sound, <i>d</i>, Point Barrow, <i>e</i>, Alaska (exact location doubtful), +<i>f</i>, Cape Nome) (After Otis T. Mason, Throwing Sticks in the United States<span class="pagenum">[364]</span> +National Museum, Annual Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 279 et seq.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">145</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_133">133.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Pile cloth, Congo (From Torday and Joyce, <span lang="fr">Notes ethnographiques +sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba etc. Les Bushongo, +Documents ethnographiques concernant les populations du Congo +Belge</span>, Vol. II, Pl. XVI, figs. 2 and 4)</td> +<td class="tdrb">154</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_134">134.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Haida painting representing a sea-monster in the form of a wolf, +carrying two whales</td> +<td class="tdrb">159</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_135">135.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Haida drawing representing the story of a young man who caught +a sea-monster</td> +<td class="tdrb">159</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_136">136.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Haida drawing representing part of the raven story</td> +<td class="tdrb">160</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_137">137.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Types of New Zealand spirals</td> +<td class="tdrb">161</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_138_139">138.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Types of spirals from eastern New Guinea (From E. Fuhrmann, +New Guinea, p. 108)</td> +<td class="tdrb">163</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_138_139">139.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Spirals from the Amur River (From Berthold Laufer, The Decorative +Art of the Amur Tribes, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. IV, +Pl. 20, figs. 3 and 4)</td> +<td class="tdrb">163</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_140">140.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Pictographs representing human beings, <i>a</i>, + <ins class="corr" title="Transcriber's Note—original text: Wahpaton" id="Wahpaton2">Wahpeton</ins> Sioux (After +Skinner, Indian Notes and Monographs, Museum of the American +Indian, Heye Foundation, Vol. 4, Pl. 23); <i>b</i>, Menomenee (After +Skinner, Anthropological Papers, A. M. N. H. Vol. 13, fig. 30, p. 159); +<i>c</i>, Blackfoot (After Clark Wissler, <i>ibid.</i> Vol. 7, fig. 3. p. 40); <i>d</i>, +Dakota (After Garrick Mallery, Pictographs of North American +Indians); <i>e</i>, Alaskan Eskimo (After W. J. Hoffmann, Graphic Art of +the Eskimo, Report of the United States National Museum, 1895, Pl. 63); +<i>f</i>, Pencil sketches by Eskimo from the west coast of Hudson Bay</td> +<td class="tdrb">164</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_141">141.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, Pictographs from the Cueva de los Caballos, + <i>d</i>, Pictograph +of Bushmen (After Obermaier and Wernert)</td> +<td class="tdrb">165</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_142">142.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Zuni pot (After C. F. Lummis, Mesa, Canyon and Pueblo, p. 369)</td> +<td class="tdrb">167</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_143">143.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Haussa embroideries; (<i>a</i>, After Lepage, La décoration primitive; + +<i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, <i>d</i>. After Felix von Luschan, <span lang="de">Beiträge zur Völkerkunde der +deutschen Kolonien</span>, p. 50)</td> +<td class="tdrb">168</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_144">144.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox (A M. N. H., <i>a</i>, 50/3597; <i>b</i>, 50/2285)</td> +<td class="tdrb">170</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_145">145.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox (A. M. N. H. <i>a</i>, 50/5212; <i>b</i>, 50/3595)</td> +<td class="tdrb">171</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_146">146.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted rawhides, Sauk and Fox (A. M. N. H. <i>a</i>, 50/2282; <i>b</i>, 50/3630)</td> +<td class="tdrb">172</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_147">147.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted rawhide, Ioway (Public Museum City of Milwaukee, 30607)</td> +<td class="tdrb">173</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_148">148.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Painted rawhide, Ioway (Public Museum City of Milwaukee, 30609); +<i>b</i>, Painted rawhide, Otoe (Public Museum City of Milwaukee, 30677)</td> +<td class="tdrb">174</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_149_150">149.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design from pouch, Ojibwa, (A. M. N. H. 50/4596)</td> +<td class="tdrb">175</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_149_150">150.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design from two sides of pouch, Potawatomi, (A. M. N. H. 50.1/7092).</td> +<td class="tdrb">175<span class="pagenum">[365]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_151a">151.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Types of parfleche and pouch painting, <i>a</i>, Arapaho (A. M. N. H.), 176 +<i>b</i>, <i>c</i>, Shoshone (A. M. N. H. 50/2294, 2432).</td> +<td class="tdrb">177</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_152">152.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Arapaho designs (From A. L. Kroeber, The Arapaho, Bull. A. M. N. H. +vol. 18.) <i>a</i>, Moccasin, Pl. 2, fig. 5; <i>b</i>, Toilet bag, fig. 28; <i>c</i>, Small +pouch, Pl. 4, fig. 2; <i>d</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 4, fig. 11; <i>e</i>, Knife scabbard, +Pl. 2, fig. 13; <i>f</i>, Knife scabbard, fig. 22; <i>g</i>, Woman’s leggings, +Pl. 3, fig. 5; <i>h</i>, Woman’s leggings, fig. 6; <i>i</i>, Small pouch, fig. 23; <i>j</i>, +Small pouch, Pl. 7, fig. 14; <i>k</i>, Moccasin, Pl. 3, fig. 2; <i>l</i>, Woman’s +leggings, Pl. 4, fig. 5; <i>m</i>, Toilet bag, fig. 25; <i>n</i>, Toilet bag, fig. 27; +<i>o</i>, Woman’s leggings, Pl. 2, fig. 5; <i>p</i>, Pouch, Pl. 3, fig. 12; <i>q</i>, Pouch, +Pl. 4, fig. 12; <i>r</i>, Moccasin, Pl. 2, fig. 2; <i>s</i>, Woman’s work bag, Pl. +2, fig. 15; <i>t</i>, Scabbard, Pl. 5, fig. 13.</td> +<td class="tdrb">178</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_153">153.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Sioux designs (From Clark Wissler, Decorative Art of the Sioux +Indians, Bull. A. M. N. H., Vol. 18.) <i>a</i>, Moccasin, fig. 98; <i>b</i>, Knife +scabbard, Pl. 4, fig. 49; <i>c</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 3, fig. 41; <i>d</i>, Pipe bag, +Pl. 2, fig. 47; <i>e</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 2, fig. 42; <i>f</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 3, fig. 42; +<i>g</i>, Cradle, fig. 42; <i>h</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 1, fig. 42; <i>i</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 4, +fig. 41; <i>j</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 1, fig. 47; <i>k</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 3, fig. 43; <i>l</i>, +Pipe bag, fig. 99; <i>m</i>, Woman’s leggings, fig. 74; <i>n</i>, Cradle, fig. 73; +<i>o</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 1, fig. 41; <i>p</i>, Woman’s leggings, Pl. 2, fig. 51; +<i>q</i>, Woman’s leggings, Pl. 5, fig. 51; <i>r</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 2, fig. 41; +<i>s</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 1, fig. 43; <i>t</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 4, fig. 47; <i>u</i>, Scabbard, +Pl. 2, fig. 49; <i>v</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 3, fig. 50; <i>w</i>, Knife scabbard, Pl. 6, +fig. 49; <i>x</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 3, fig. 47; <i>y</i>, Small pouch, Pl. 5, fig. 40; +<i>z</i>, Pipe bag, fig. 100; <i>z1</i>, Pipe bag, Pl. 2, fig. 43.</td> +<td class="tdrb">179</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_154_155">154.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tlingit helmet (A. M. N. H. E/3453).</td> +<td class="tdrb">184</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_154_155">155.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask representing dying warrior, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/2501).</td> +<td class="tdrb">184</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_156">156.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved head used in ceremonial, Kwakiutl Indians, Museum für +Völkerkunde, Berlin.</td> +<td class="tdrb">185</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_157_158_159">157.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carvings representing the beaver from models of Haida totem poles +carved in slate (A. M. N. H. 16/556, 16/551).</td> +<td class="tdrb">186</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_157_158_159">158.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carving from handle of spoon representing beaver, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. +19/1129).</td> +<td class="tdrb">186</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_157_158_159">159.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Headdress representing beaver; a dragon-fly is shown on the chest +of the beaver, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/245).</td> +<td class="tdrb">186</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_160">160.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front placed over the door, representing the +beaver, Kwakiutl Indians.</td> +<td class="tdrb">188</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_161_162">161.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Halibut hook with design representing a sculpin swallowing a fish, +Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/1251).</td> +<td class="tdrb">188</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_161_162">162.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Part of a totem pole with a design representing a sculpin, Tsimshian +(A. M. N. H. 16/567)</td> +<td class="tdrb">188<span class="pagenum">[366]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_163">163.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Woolen legging with appliqué designs representing sculpin, Haida +(A. M. N. H. 16/328)</td> +<td class="tdrb">189</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_164_167">164.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Facial painting representing the sculpin</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_164_167">165.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Headdress representing a hawk, Tsimshian (A. M. N. H. 16/252)</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_164_167">166.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Handle of a spoon made of mountain-goat horn; lowest figure representing +a hawk; upper figure representing a man holding a dragon-fly, +probably Tsimshian (A. M. N. H. 16/105)</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_164_167">167.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Rattle with design of a hawk, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/1371)</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_168_170">168.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Dish made of horn of big-horn-sheep, Tlingit. (A. M. N. H. +19/696)</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_168_170">169.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Facial painting representing hawk</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_168_170">170.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Headdress representing an eagle bearing a frog on its chest, Tsimshian +(A. M. N. H. 16/249)</td> +<td class="tdrb">191</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_171">171.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Housepost representing eagle above, cormorant below, Haida (A. M. +N. H. 16/3686)</td> +<td class="tdrb">192</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_172">172.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting on paddle representing hawk, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">193</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_173">173.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting on back and one end of a settee representing man and +hawk, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">193</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_174">174.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Handle of spoon of mountain-goat horn representing dragon-fly, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H. E/280)</td> +<td class="tdrb">193</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_175">175.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Berry spoon with engraving representing dragon-fly (from J. R. Swanton, +The Haida Indians, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. V, +fig. 24 <i>b</i>, p. 148)</td> +<td class="tdrb">193</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_176">176.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>—<i>e</i>, Carvings from handles of spoons of mountain-goat horn +representing killer-whale, Tlingit (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">195</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_177_178">177.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Rattle representing killer-whale, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/304)</td> +<td class="tdrb">195</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_177_178">178.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Wooden float representing killer-whale, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/8471)</td> +<td class="tdrb">195</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_179">179.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Masks and dishes representing the killer-whale, Kwakiutl, A. M. +N. H. (from F. Boas, The Kwakiutl Indians, Jesup North Pacific +Expedition, Vol. V)</td> +<td class="tdrb">196</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_180_181">180.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Helmet representing the killer-whale, Tlingit, Museum of Academy +of Sciences, Leningrad</td> +<td class="tdrb">196</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_180_181">181.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carvings from the handles of spoons of mountain-goat horn representing +the bear (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">196</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_182">182.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Berry spoons representing bear (U. S. National Museum); <i>a</i>, Tsimshian, +16253; <i>b</i>, Tsimshian, 16254; <i>c</i>, Tlingit, 20820; <i>d</i>, berry spoon (U. S. +Nat. Mus., 20825)</td> +<td class="tdrb">197</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_183">183.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carving representing a sea-monster, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. 19/377)</td> +<td class="tdrb">199</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_184">184.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carvings from handles of spoons made of mountain-goat horn representing +a sea-monster (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">199<span class="pagenum">[367]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_185_186">185.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Part of totem pole carved in slate representing shark surmounted +by an eagle, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/1161)</td> +<td class="tdrb">199</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_185_186">186.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Handle of a dagger representing the head of a shark, Tlingit (A. M. +N. H. E/2037)</td> +<td class="tdrb">199</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_187_188">187.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Wooden pipe representing a shark, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. 19/98)</td> +<td class="tdrb">200</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_187_188">188.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooing representing a shark, Haida (From a photograph)</td> +<td class="tdrb">200</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_189_190">189.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Handles of spoons representing a sea-monster, Haida (A. M. N. H., +<i>a</i>, E/298; <i>b</i>, E/826; <i>c</i>, E/296)</td> +<td class="tdrb">201</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_189_190">190.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Handles of spoons made of mountain-goat representing snail, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H., <i>a</i>, 19/1116; <i>b</i>, E/828)</td> +<td class="tdrb">201</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_191">191.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Types of eyes of various animals, Kwakiutl. <i>a</i>, sea bear; <i>b</i>, grizzly +bear; <i>c</i>, beaver; <i>d</i>, wolf; <i>e</i>, eagle; <i>f</i>, raven; <i>g</i>, killer-whale</td> +<td class="tdrb">203</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_192">192.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, whale; <i>b</i>, sea lion; <i>c</i>, frog; <i>d</i>, + double-headed serpent; <i>e</i>, man; +<i>f</i>, merman; <i>g</i>, spirit of the sea</td> +<td class="tdrb">204</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_193">193.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Styles of tails, Kwakiutl; above bird, below sea mammals</td> +<td class="tdrb">205</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_194">194.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Styles of wing designs and of fin designs, Kwakiutl; <i>a</i>, fin; <i>b</i>, wing</td> +<td class="tdrb">205</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_195">195.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Elements used in representing the halibut, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">206</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_196">196.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Elements used in representing the wolf, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">206</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_197">197.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting from bow of a canoe, representing the wolf, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">207</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_198">198.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Masks and dishes representing the wolf, Kwakiutl (<i>a-e</i> from F. Boas, +The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, +Vol. 5, Pls. 39, 42-44; <i>g</i> British Museum; <i>h</i> A. M. N. H. 16/384)</td> +<td class="tdrb">208</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_199">199.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">House post, Haida (From John R. Swanton, The Haida Indians, Jesup +North Pacific Expedition, Vol. V, fig. 10)</td> +<td class="tdrb">209</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_200">200.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from a set of gambling sticks. (From John R. Swanton, +<i>Ibid.</i> figs. 26-31)</td> +<td class="tdrb">210</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_201">201.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs from a set of gambling sticks (<i>Ibid.</i>)</td> +<td class="tdrb">211</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_202">202.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blanket (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat blanket, fig. 546)</td> +<td class="tdrb">213</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_203">203.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blanket (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat blanket, fig. 561)</td> +<td class="tdrb">213</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_204">204.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blanket (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat blanket, fig. 563)</td> +<td class="tdrb">214</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_205">205.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blanket (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat blanket, fig. 580)</td> +<td class="tdrb">215</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_206">206.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of totem pole with three figures representing, from below +upward; sculpin, dog-fish, and sea-monster, Haida (A. M. N. H. +16/550)</td> +<td class="tdrb">216</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_207_208">207.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask representing the hawk, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/1591)</td> +<td class="tdrb">217</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_207_208">208.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask with painting symbolizing the flicker, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/337)</td> +<td class="tdrb">217</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_209_210">209.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask with eyebrows symbolizing the squid, Tlingit (A. M, N. H. +19/920)</td> +<td class="tdrb">218</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_209_210">210.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask with painting symbolizing the killer-whale, Tlingit (A. M N. H. E/1629)</td> +<td class="tdrb">218<span class="pagenum">[368]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_211">211.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Fish-club representing the killer-whale, Tlingit, (A. M. N. H. E/242)</td> +<td class="tdrb">219</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_212_213">212.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Wood carving representing dorsal fin of the killer-whale, Tlingit, (A. M. N. H. E/923)</td> +<td class="tdrb">219</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_212_213">213.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of a totem pole representing a shark, Haida, (A. M. N. H. 16/1167)</td> +<td class="tdrb">219</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_214">214.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Speaker’s staff representing a shark, Tlingit (A. M. H. N. 19/790)</td> +<td class="tdrb">220</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_215_216">215.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Berry spoon with designs representing the eagle (From J. R. Swanton, +The Haida Indians, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. V, fig. 24 <i>a</i>, +p. 148)</td> +<td class="tdrb">221</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_215_216">216.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Halibut hook representing a beaver, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. 19/1152)</td> +<td class="tdrb">221</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_217">217.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Part of totem pole representing a shark, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/1154)</td> +<td class="tdrb">221</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_218">218.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Dancing-hat representing a killer-whale, Tsimshian (A. M. N. H. 16/580)</td> +<td class="tdrb">221</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_219">219.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Wooden hat with carving representing the sculpin (A. M. N. H. 16/282)</td> +<td class="tdrb">221</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_220">220.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Grease dish representing seal</td> +<td class="tdrb">222</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_221">221.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on a bracelet representing a bear, Nass River Indians +(A. M. N. H. E/2428)</td> +<td class="tdrb">223</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_222">222.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting representing bear, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">224</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_223_224">223.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting from a house-front representing a bear, Tsimshian</td> +<td class="tdrb">225</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_223_224">224.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Wooden hat painted with the design of a sculpin, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/281)</td> +<td class="tdrb">225</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_225">225.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Hat made of spruce roots painted with design of a beaver, Haida +or Tsimshian, (A. M. N. H. 16/692)</td> +<td class="tdrb">226</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_226_227">226.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooing representing a duck, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">226</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_226_227">227.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooing representing a raven, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">226</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_228_229">228.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Dancing-apron woven of mountain-goat wool, design representing a +beaver, Tsimshian (A. M. N. H. 16/349)</td> +<td class="tdrb">227</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_228_229">229.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted legging with design representing a beaver sitting on a man’s +head, Haida, (A. M. N. H. 16/330)</td> +<td class="tdrb">227</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_230">230.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Gambling-leather with engraved design representing a beaver, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H. 19/1057)</td> +<td class="tdrb">228</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_231">231.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Embroidered legging representing a sea-monster with a bear’s head +and body of the killer-whale, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/334)</td> +<td class="tdrb">228</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_232">232.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting representing a dog-fish, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">229</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_233">233.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate dish design representing a shark, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/603)</td> +<td class="tdrb">229</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_234">234.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting on edge of a blanket representing a killer-whale, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H. E/1502)</td> +<td class="tdrb">230</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_235_236">235.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of totem pole representing a sea-monster, Haida (A. M. N. H. +16/544)</td> +<td class="tdrb">231</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_235_236">236.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of totem pole representing a sculpin, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/1155)</td> +<td class="tdrb">231<span class="pagenum">[369]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_237">237.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of totem pole representing a sea-monster devouring a fish, +Haida (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdrb">232</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_238_239">238.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate carving representing the sea-monster Wasgo, Haida (A. M. N. H. +16/687)</td> +<td class="tdrb">233</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_238_239">239.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooing representing the fabulous sea-monster Ts’um’a´ks, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">233</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_240_241">240.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate dish with design representing a killer-whale, Haida (A. M. N. H. +16/605)</td> +<td class="tdrb">234</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_240_241">241.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Drum painted with design of an eagle, Tsimshian (A. M. N. H. 16/748)</td> +<td class="tdrb">234</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_242_243">242.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Tattooing representing the moon, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">234</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_242_243">243.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carving on the end of a food tray representing a hawk, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H. E/1236)</td> +<td class="tdrb">234</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_244">244.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting from a house-front representing thunder-bird, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">236</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_245">245.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Model of totem pole with design representing a killer-whale, Haida +(A. M. N. H. 16/1166)</td> +<td class="tdrb">237</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_246">246.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a box front, design representing a frog, Haida</td> +<td class="tdrb">238</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_247">247.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front with design representing a killer-whale, +Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">238</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_248">248.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front with design representing a killer-whale, +Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">239</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_249">249.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting on a paddle representing porpoise and seal, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">240</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_250">250.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front representing a raven, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">241</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_251">251.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front representing a thunder-bird, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">242</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_252">252.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front representing a whale, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">243</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_253">253.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting for a house-front representing a raven, Kwakiutl, (1) lower +jaw; (2) tongue; (3) chest; (4) feet; (5) legs; (6) wings</td> +<td class="tdrb">244</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_254">254.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painting from the edge of a blanket representing a sea-monster, +Northern British Columbia (A. M. N. H. 16/355)</td> +<td class="tdrb">244</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_255">255.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on a silver bracelet representing a beaver, Haida (A. M. +N. H. E/2462)</td> +<td class="tdrb">245</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_256">256.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on a silver bracelet representing a sea-monster, Haida (A. M. +N. H. E/2461)</td> +<td class="tdrb">245</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_257">257.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design on a silver bracelet representing a hawk, Haida (A. M. N. H. +E/2463)</td> +<td class="tdrb">245</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_258">258.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate dish with design representing a sea-monster, Haida (A. M. +N. H. 16/611)</td> +<td class="tdrb">246</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_259">259.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front of a slate box with design representing a sea-monster, Haida +(A. M. N. H. 16/687)</td> +<td class="tdrb">247</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_260">260.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate slab with design representing a sea-monster, Haida (A. M. +N. H. 16/1149)</td> +<td class="tdrb">247</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_261_262">261.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design from the end of a food tray representing a shark, Tlingit +(A. M. N. H. 16/1187)</td> +<td class="tdrb">248</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_261_262">262.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Slate dish with design representing a sculpin, Haida (A. M. N. H. 16/882)</td> +<td class="tdrb">248<span class="pagenum">[370]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_263">263.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front of a slate box with design representing a fish, Haida (A. M. +N. H. 16/687)</td> +<td class="tdrb">249</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_264">264.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Body painting representing the bear, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">250</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_265">265.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Body painting representing the frog, Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">251</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_266">266.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Design elements from Tlingit blankets (From G. T. Emmons, The +Chilkat Blanket, fig. 559, p. 366)</td> +<td class="tdrb">253</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_267">267.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Schematic design showing the arrangement of the central field of +the Chilkat blanket</td> +<td class="tdrb">258</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_268">268.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">General plans of Tlingit blankets</td> +<td class="tdrb">258</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_269">269.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blankets (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat blanket, fig. 548 <i>b</i>, +fig. 560 <i>a</i>)</td> +<td class="tdrb">259</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_270">270.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blankets (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 560 <i>b</i> +and fig. 562 <i>b</i>)</td> +<td class="tdrb">260</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_271">271.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blankets, <i>a-b</i>, United States National Museum (From G. T. +Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 564)</td> +<td class="tdrb">261</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_272">272.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blanket (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 571, p. 381)</td> +<td class="tdrb">261</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_273">273.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Chilkat blankets (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, figs. 570 <i>b</i>, +p. 380, 572 <i>a</i>, p. 382)</td> +<td class="tdrb">262</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_274">274.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front, reverse and side of a painted box (From G. T. Emmons, The +Chilkat Blanket, fig. 551 <i>a</i>, p. 356, fig. 552, p. 357)</td> +<td class="tdrb">263</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_275">275.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted and carved box front (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat +Blanket, fig. 551, p. 356)</td> +<td class="tdrb">264</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_276">276.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Four sides of a painted box, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/652)</td> +<td class="tdrb">264</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_277">277.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Four sides of a painted box, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. E/1579)</td> +<td class="tdrb">265</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_278">278.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front and side of a painted box (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat +Blanket, fig. 553 <i>d</i>, p. 358)</td> +<td class="tdrb">266</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_279">279.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Front, reverse and side of a carved box (From G. T. Emmons The +Chilkat Blanket, fig. 553 <i>a</i> and <i>b</i> p. 358)</td> +<td class="tdrb">267</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_280">280.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved boxes (From Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 556, <i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, p. 362)</td> +<td class="tdrb">268</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_281">281.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved box, Tlingit (A. M. N. H. 19/1231)</td> +<td class="tdrb">269</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_282">282.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved trays (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, figs. 556 <i>c-e</i>, +and 557 <i>d</i>, pp. 362, 363)</td> +<td class="tdrb">270</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_283">283.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved trays (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 557 <i>a-c</i>, +<i>e</i>, <i>f</i>, p. 363, and A. M. N. H. 19/953)</td> +<td class="tdrb">272</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_284">284.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Carved trays (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 554)</td> +<td class="tdrb">273</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_285">285.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs on Tlingit armor (From photograph from specimens in the +Museum of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad)</td> +<td class="tdrb">274</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_286">286.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted tray (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 558 <i>a</i>, +p. 364)</td> +<td class="tdrb">275<span class="pagenum">[371]</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_287">287.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Painted boxes (From G. T. Emmons, The Chilkat Blanket, fig. 558, <i>b-d</i>, +p. 364)</td> +<td class="tdrb">276</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_288">288.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Horn spoons showing carving on the back (A. M. N. H.). <i>a</i>, 16/8799 +representing sea-monster, <i>b</i>, 16/8791 representing the hawk, <i>c</i>, 16/8792 +representing the beaver (?), <i>d</i>, 16/8796 representing the raven, +<i>e</i>, 16/8795 representing the killer-whale, <i>f</i>, 16/8798, representing the +raven, <i>g</i>, 16/8794 representing dlia (?), <i>h</i>, 16/8793 representing the sun</td> +<td class="tdrb">277</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_289">289.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Dish of horn of big-horn-sheep representing the bear (Private Property)</td> +<td class="tdrb">278</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_290">290.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Mask of Kwakiutl Indians used in winter ceremonial; according to +some representing fool dancer, according to others The-One-Shining-Down +(After L. Adam, <span lang="de">Nordwest-amerikanische Indianer Kunst</span>, Pl. 19)</td> +<td class="tdrb">279</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_291">291.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Ancient type of Kwakiutl box (A. M. N. H. 16/8117)</td> +<td class="tdrb">281</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_292">292.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Food tray (A. M. N. H. 16/8215), <i>b</i>, Bucket (16/2243), Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">282</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_293">293.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Small boxes (<i>a</i>, 16/2248, <i>b</i>, 16/8148), Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">282</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_294">294.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Combs (A. M. N. H. <i>a</i>, 16/2299, <i>b</i>, 16/8911, <i>c</i>, + 16/8180, <i>d</i>, 16/8235), +Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">282</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_295">295.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Bone club and sword (A. M. N. H. <i>a</i>, 16/8274, <i>b</i>, 16/971), Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">282</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_296">296.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Spindle whirls, Ethnographisches Museum, Berlin, Lower Fraser River</td> +<td class="tdrb">283</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_297">297.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Ladle made of big-horn-sheep horn, Columbia River</td> +<td class="tdrb">283</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_298">298.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Clubs made of bone of whale. <i>a</i>, From Nootka, collected by Captain +Cook (British Museum, Cat. No. N. W. C. 42); <i>b</i>, From Nootka +(British Museum, Cat. No. N. W. C. 47); <i>c</i>, From Columbia River +(Oregon Historical Society, Cat. No. 385, List 38); <i>d</i>, From Nootka, +collected by Captain Cook, 1778 (Ethnographical Museum, Florence); +<i>e</i>, From Barclay Sound, collected by Mr. A. Jacobsen (Museum +für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Cat. No. IV. A 1574); <i>f</i>, From Nootka, +collected by Captain Cook (British Museum, Cat. No. N. W. C. 41); +<i>g</i>, From shell-heap at Cadboro Bay collected by Mr. J. Maynard +(Provincial Museum, Victoria, Cat. No. 769); <i>h</i>, From Neah Bay, +collected by Hon. James Wickersham (U. S. National Museum, +Cat. No. 198032); <i>i</i>, Collected by Vancouver (British Museum, +Van. 93); <i>j</i>, From Nootka (collection of Mr. W. Sparrow Simpson, +British Museum, Cat. No. 9383); <i>k</i>, From Upper Columbia River, +collected by Col. Brooks, U. S. A., about 1810, property of Mr. +M. F. Savage, New York (A. M. N. H. cast No. 16/8578); <i>l</i>, British +Museum, Cat. No. 78-11-1.623; <i>m</i>, From Nootka (British Museum, +Cat. No. 8766); <i>n</i>, University Museum, Cambridge, Eng. Cat. No. +R. D. 112 d</td> +<td class="tdrb">284</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_299">299.</a><span class="pagenum">[372]</span></td> +<td class="tdl">Clubs made of bone of whale. <i>a</i>, From Quamichan Indians, collected +by Dr. C. F. Newcombe (Field Museum of Natural History, +Chicago, Cat. No. 85348); <i>b</i>, From shell-heap, Plumper’s Pass, collected +by Mr. Eduard Lomas (Provincial Museum, Victoria, Cat. +No. 770); <i>c</i>, From Neah Bay, collected by Hon. James Wickersham +(U. S. National Museum, Cat. No. 198033); <i>d</i>, From Nuchatlath, +collected by Mr. A. Jacobsen (Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, +Cat. No. IV A 1215); <i>e</i>, From Hesquiath, collected by Mr. A. Jacobsen +(Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Cat. No. IV A 1573); +<i>f</i>, 16/2106 From Clayoquath, collected by Mr. Fillip Jacobsen; +<i>g</i>, 16/912 Bishop Collection from British Columbia; <i>h</i>, 200/1471 +Made of serpentine, from Blalock Island, Wash., opposite Umatilla, +Ore., collected by Mr. D. W. Owen; <i>i</i>, From Cadboro Bay, collected +by Mr. James Deans (Provincial Museum, Victoria, Cat. No. 774); +<i>j</i>, From Fort Vancouver, Wash., about 1830 (Academy of Natural +Sciences, Philadelphia); <i>k</i>, From Neah Bay, collected by Hon. James +Wickersham (from cast in U. S. National Museum, Cat. No. 198031); +<i>l</i>, Peabody Academy of Sciences, Salem, Mass., Cat. No. E. 6640; +<i>m</i>, <i>n</i>, From Nootka, collected by Capt. James Magee about 1794 +(Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Cat. Nos. 256, 255); <i>o</i>, From +Neah Bay, collected by Hon. James Wickersham (from cast in U. S. +National Museum, Cat. No. 198030); <i>p</i>, 16/855, From shell-heap at +Cadboro Bay; <i>q</i>, 16/911 Bishop Collection; <i>r</i>, 16/1100 Excavated +on Songish Reservation</td> +<td class="tdrb">286</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_300">300.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">House posts, Lower Fraser River, from photograph by Harlan I. Smith</td> +<td class="tdrb">288</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_301">301.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Basket, Lower Chehalis (Private Property)</td> +<td class="tdrb">289</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_302">302.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Designs on matting (A. M. N. H. <i>a</i>, 16/9990; <i>b</i>, 16/8222), Kwakiutl</td> +<td class="tdrb">289</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_303">303.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Woven hat of spruce root, Kwakiutl (A. M. N. H. 16/9993)</td> +<td class="tdrb">290</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_304">304.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Decorative designs from Tlingit basketry (From G. T. Emmons, The +Basketry of the Tlingit Indians)</td> +<td class="tdrb">291</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_305">305.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Decorative designs from Tlingit basketry (From G. T. Emmons, The +Basketry of the Tlingit Indians)</td> +<td class="tdrb">293</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_306">306.</a></td> +<td class="tdl"><i>a</i>, Rawhide pouch, Salish or Chinook, collected by Wilkes, 1840; +<i>b</i>, Design from parfleche, Fort Colville, Washington (United States +National Museum, 2618 and 672)</td> +<td class="tdrb">296</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_307">307.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Scraper of bone, Tahltan (Private Property)</td> +<td class="tdrb">297</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#fig_308">308.</a></td> +<td class="tdl">Detail of imbricated basketry</td> +<td class="tdrb">297</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_373">[373]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="EXPLANATION_OF_PLATES">EXPLANATION OF PLATES</h2></div> + + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">Plate</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_I">I.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Basketry of Maidu (From Roland B. Dixon, Basketry Designs of California, Bull. Am. Museum of Natural History, Vol. 17).</td> +<td class="tdcb">opp.</td><td class="tdcb">p.</td><td class="tdrb"> 18</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_II">II.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Body Painting of an Andaman Islander (From Brown, The Andaman Islanders)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">32</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_III">III.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Melanesian House</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">34</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_IV">IV.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Peruvian Textiles (From Charles W. Mead, Boas Anniversary Volume, Pl. X)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">46</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_V">V.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Kumiss Goblets of the Yakut (From W. Jochelson, Boas Anniversary Volume, Pl. XXI)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">54</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_VI">VI.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Shaman’s Dress, Amur River (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">66</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_VII">VII.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Woven Pouch, British Columbia (A. M. N. H.)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">124</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_VIII">VIII.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Woven Blanket, New Zealand, United States National Museum</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">182</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_IX">IX.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Carved Figure, British Columbia, Linden Museum, Stuttgart</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">184</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_X">X.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Chilkat Blanket, Ethnological Museum, Copenhagen</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">278</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_XI">XI.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Cedarbark Blanket, British Columbia, British Museum</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">278</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_XII">XII.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Blankets of Mountain-goat Wool, Bella Coola, British Columbia</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">278</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_XIII">XIII.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">House Post, near Eburne, Fraser River Delta, British Columbia</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">288</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_XIV">XIV.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Tlingit Baskets (From G. T. Emmons, The Basketry of the Tlingit Indians)</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">294</td> + +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdct">”</td> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#plate_XV">XV.</a></td> +<td class="tdlt">Imbricated Baskets from British Columbia and Washington</td> +<td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdcb">”</td><td class="tdrb">298</td> + +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_374">[374]</span></p> + + + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="TABLE_OF_CONTENTS">TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2></div> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdr wd5"></td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Preface</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrb"></td><td class="tdr wd5"></td> +<td class="tdl">Mental attitude of primitive people</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Primitive culture, historical growth</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">The object of the investigation is a study of dynamic conditions of art growth</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Acknowledgments</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">I.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Introduction</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">What is art?</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Technical perfection in art</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Emotional appeal of contents of art colors</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Historical notations</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">II.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">The formal elements in art</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Virtuosity</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Regularity of form and virtuosity</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Lack of virtuosity and artistic form</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Lack of effect of artistic form</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">The plain, strong line and regular curve</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Symmetry</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Inverted symmetry</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Rhythm</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Marginal designs</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Decoration of prominent places</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Conclusion</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">III.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Representative art</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Representation and representative art</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Primitive symbolic and realistic representation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Influence of technique upon style of representation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">IV.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Symbolism</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Wide distribution of symbolic interpretation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Lack of stability of explanation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Lack of coherence in symbols</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Design names</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Studies in conventionalization</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Geographical distribution of explanations of similar designs</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Reading in of meanings</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Development of geometrical form according to representative tendencies</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Stability of patterns of action as against instability of interpretation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Change of type due to slovenly execution</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_130">130</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Technical motives applying to representations</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_138">138</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Effect of decorative field</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_141">141</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Effect of symbolic methods of representation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">V.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Style</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_144">144</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">The problem of style</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_144">144</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Motor habits and form</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_145">145</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Concentration of forms</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_148">148</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Transfer of forms in new materials</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_150">150</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Technical determination of form</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_153">153</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Individuality of style</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_153">153</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">The artist in his cultural setting</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_155">155</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Control of style over invention</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_156">156</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Formal elements of style</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Dissemination of art forms and local developments</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Diversity of style in the same tribe and community</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">VI.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">The art of the Northwest coast of North America</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Symbolic representations of animal forms</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_186">186</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The beaver</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_186">186</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The sculpin</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_188">188</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The hawk and the eagle</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The dragon-fly</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_192">192</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The killer-whale</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_194">194</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The bear</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_197">197</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The sea-monster</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_198">198</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The frog</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_198">198</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pad1">The shark</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_198">198</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Summary of symbols</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_202">202</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Minor symbols are not strictly normative</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_207">207</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">The wolf; variations of form in representations of same animal</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_213">213</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Variations in interpretation</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_214">214</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Use of fragmentary symbols</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Adaptation of animal forms to the decorative field</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_218">218</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Formal elements in animal representations</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_221">221</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Design arrangement on Chilkat blankets</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_257">257</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Design arrangement on boxes</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_262">262</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Design arrangement on food trays</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_270">270</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Design arrangement on square boxes</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_275">275</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Geometrical elements</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_279">279</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Older art styles of the Gulf of Georgia</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_284">284</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Realistic representations</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_285">285</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Geometrical designs in basketry</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_289">289</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Art of neighboring tribes</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_294">294</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">VII.</td> +<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Primitive literature, music, and dance</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_299">299</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">General occurrence of literature, music, and dance</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_299">299</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Relation between song, music, and dance</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Primitive prose</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Rhythm</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_310">310</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Emphasis</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_317">317</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Symmetry</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_320">320</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Metaphor</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_320">320</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Poetic description</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_325">325</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Local culture reflected in literary form</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_327">327</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Symbolic meaning of narrative</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_337">337</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Different literary styles are found in the same tribe</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_337">337</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Distribution of literary forms</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_338">338</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Music</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_340">340</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Dance</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_344">344</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdr" colspan="2"></td> +<td class="tdl">Conclusion</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_349">349</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl" colspan="3">Text figures</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_357">357</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl" colspan="3">Explanation of plates</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_373">373</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"><div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="transnote" id="ENDNOTE"> +<strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong> + +<p class="noindent">Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned +between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this +eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of +Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.</p> + +<p class="noindent">Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors +have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences +within the text and consultation of external sources.</p> + +<p class="noindent">Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, +some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original +book.</p> + +<p class="noindent">Except for those changes noted below, all +misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been +retained.</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt">Pg <a href="#underly">86</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“underly” replaced by “underlie”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#Arapho">95</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“Arapho” replaced by “Arapaho”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#rater">96</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“rater” 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+<td class="tdrt"><a href="#brings">204</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“brings” replaced by “beings”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#twowhile">223</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“twowhile” replaced by “two whole”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#then">243</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“then” replaced by “than”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#wo">294</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“wo” replaced by “so”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#woes">335</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“woes” replaced by “woos”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#feasts">336</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“feasts” replaced by “feast”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#timber">341</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“timber” replaced by “timbre”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#tapfrer">345</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“tapfrer” replaced by “tapfer”</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdrt"><a href="#Wahpaton2">364</a>:</td> +<td class="tdl">“Wahpaton” replaced by 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