. Bulletin. Ethnology. tural details are utilized freely for pur- poses of embellishment. A people that could carve wood and stone and could decorate pottery and weave baskets of admirable pattern could not mold the unwieldy elements of the building into esthetic form. But esthetic suggestions and features did not pass entirely unap- preciated. Some of the lower types of structures, such as the grass lodge and the mat house, partaking of textile tech- nique, were characterized by elements of symmetry, grace, and rliythmic repeti- tion of details. The wooden house of tip: of plains tribes; shos
. Bulletin. Ethnology. tural details are utilized freely for pur- poses of embellishment. A people that could carve wood and stone and could decorate pottery and weave baskets of admirable pattern could not mold the unwieldy elements of the building into esthetic form. But esthetic suggestions and features did not pass entirely unap- preciated. Some of the lower types of structures, such as the grass lodge and the mat house, partaking of textile tech- nique, were characterized by elements of symmetry, grace, and rliythmic repeti- tion of details. The wooden house of tip: of plains tribes; shoshoni. Cloth simple "pile dwellings set in the shallow waters were all that the conditions of existence in a mild climate Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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