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Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (find matches)
Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
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-, perhaps, also be thought thatthe ornamental devices in some of the fragments represent plumes of feathers. In Fig. 8, there is a comljination of segments of circles with ellipses and right-angled lines, inaccurately drawn. It is a drawing which exhibits a fixed theory,without much manual art. It is the rudest figure obser\^ed. Yet there is in it a See Stephens.
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FLORIDA • ■/.(■ ?lTBLi?HED BY LIPPINrOTT.UBJULSBli s- ANTIQUITIES. 81 character whicli denotes it to be sal ijcneris. It is the homogeneous style of dottedgiouud-work. The particuLar type of the design of number nine is simply parallels; in numberten and number five, of circles irregularly drawn; in eleven, the chain figure ofnumber one modified. In number twelve there is a rej)resentation of dotted archesand parallel fillets. So much evidence of art in the combination of figures to produce agreeable results,would appear to betoken some advance in the tribes or people who erected thebarrows, feasting mounds, and sepulchral monuments, from which these antique vesselswere taken. The art of adjusting proportions is one of the clearest tokens which apeople can give of the laws of design. There is nothing, in truth, more characteristicof the low state of art amongst the North American tribes, including the highestefforts of the ancient Mexicans, than the want of this principle. It se