Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig, 16. Legging with porcupine-quiU embroidery. almost concentric elliptical or rounded designs. These peculiardesigns resemble eyes; and the Northwest coast art may be said to. 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 repr
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig, 16. Legging with porcupine-quiU embroidery. almost concentric elliptical or rounded designs. These peculiardesigns resemble eyes; and the Northwest coast art may be said to. 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 painting.
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