This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...be termed startling. The patterns employed by these people typically belong to the class which is popularly described as geometrical. On page 176 I have selected examples of these patterns which will give a fair idea of the style of design. Dr. Ehrenreich1 informs us that in the Baka'iri chiefs' huts a frieze of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...be termed startling. The patterns employed by these people typically belong to the class which is popularly described as geometrical. On page 176 I have selected examples of these patterns which will give a fair idea of the style of design. Dr. Ehrenreich1 informs us that in the Baka'iri chiefs' huts a frieze of blackened bark tablets run along the wall which are painted in white clay with very characteristic figures and patterns of fish. All the geometric figures are in reality diagrammatic. representations of concrete objects, mostly animals. "Thus a wavy line with alternating spots denotes a large, dark-spotted colossal snake, the Anaconda (Eunecies murinus); a rhomboidal mark signifies a lagoonfish, whereas a triangle does not by any means indicate that simple geometrical figure, but the small, three-cornered article of women's clothing" (p. 98). The following quotation is also translated from Dr. Ehrenreich2: --"The ornaments of the Karaya consist of patterns of zigzag lines, crosses, dots, lozenges, and peculiar interrupted meanders, whereas the quadrate and triangle occur only incidentally (that is, owing to the filling up of other figures), and circles are entirely absent. As in the ornamentation of the Xingus tribes, so also here occur those apparently entirely arbitrary geometrical combinations fundamentally of wholly defined concrete presentments, of which the most characteristic traits are therein reproduced. Unfortunately it is not always possible to correctly ascertain the respective natural objects. The frequently occurring cross (Fig. 102, A), which in America has so often given occasion 1 "Mittheilungen liber die zweite Xingu-Expedition in Brasilien," Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, xxii., 1890, p. 89. 2 "Beitvage ...
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