Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 17. Painted apron *itli embroidery. be characterized by the prevalence of the eye motive. The eye isused with gieat frequency to indicate the joints of the body, the originalidea being evidently a representation of the ball-and-socket joint, the 56 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [ETH. ANN. 31 curved outline of the figure representing the socket, the inner fieldthe ball. These designs are done both in carving and Fig. is. Legging with porcupine-qiiill embroiJery ornamented with pufEn beaks.
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 17. Painted apron *itli embroidery. be characterized by the prevalence of the eye motive. The eye isused with gieat frequency to indicate the joints of the body, the originalidea being evidently a representation of the ball-and-socket joint, the 56 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [ETH. ANN. 31 curved outline of the figure representing the socket, the inner fieldthe ball. These designs are done both in carving and Fig. is. Legging with porcupine-qiiill embroiJery ornamented with pufEn beaks. The colors aj^plied are principally black and red,although gi-een and blue also occur. Among theTsimshian and Tlingit the same kinds of designsare used on blankets woven of mountain-goat wooland cedar bark. The animals used for ornamenta-tion are almost throughout those which play animportant part in the m3tholog> and m the beliefsconnected with the social organization of the is remarkable that geometrical designs are practi-cally absent. Only among the Tlingit, where elabo-rate decoration of spruce-root basketry occurs, doesa highly developed geometrical decorative art accom-pany the more realistic art before described. Itseems probable, however, that this art has beenintroduced thi-ough contact of the coast tribes withthe tribes of the mterior. The decoration resemblesthe designs used in the porcupine-quill embroideryof Athapascan tribes, and is executed in basketryby a peculiar method of fals
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