. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 296. 297 Figs. 278, 279, 296, on Rocks. Sitka, Alaska. (From skelches by the author.) tio other significance than the practice in idle hours of an art in whichthey were all striving to attain excellence. Some, outstripping others,became in time famous carvers, decorators, or tattooers, their fame eventfti:teMiiig beyond their own village or tribe. In one sense these carv-H. Mis. 142, pt. 2 -21 322 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. ings on tlie rocks are in the nature of drawings, as they appear also inpainted
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 296. 297 Figs. 278, 279, 296, on Rocks. Sitka, Alaska. (From skelches by the author.) tio other significance than the practice in idle hours of an art in whichthey were all striving to attain excellence. Some, outstripping others,became in time famous carvers, decorators, or tattooers, their fame eventfti:teMiiig beyond their own village or tribe. In one sense these carv-H. Mis. 142, pt. 2 -21 322 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. ings on tlie rocks are in the nature of drawings, as they appear also inpainted figures on the simpler objects, but in the paintings on wood thej)atterns are very much more elaborate than those simple etchings onth« rocks, as shown, for instance, in the carved and painted figures onthe chest and box in Plate li. In their i)aintings the favorite colorsused are black, light green, and dark red. Whether produced in paint-ing, tattooing, or relief-carving the designs are somewhat rude the outline, there are for some animals certain c
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