Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . b3 7 / v.: ?? ?. Fig. 51.—Adjustment of meander to sides of 217431 handling of the design at the corners is admirable. Technically thepattern has its merits, especially in connection with this type of bas-ket, since it admits of such comparatively easy methods of maintain-ing equal spaces, on account of the numberof lines mvolved, but ar-tistically it seems rather unsatisfactory. The series of short horizon-tal lines placed beneath the main band of decoration show no particu-la
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . b3 7 / v.: ?? ?. Fig. 51.—Adjustment of meander to sides of 217431 handling of the design at the corners is admirable. Technically thepattern has its merits, especially in connection with this type of bas-ket, since it admits of such comparatively easy methods of maintain-ing equal spaces, on account of the numberof lines mvolved, but ar-tistically it seems rather unsatisfactory. The series of short horizon-tal lines placed beneath the main band of decoration show no particu-lar effort on the part of the artist to correlate them with the designabove, a fact which adds to the artistic confusion (see Sketches hand c). In accuracy of workmanship notliing better could be h proves this. Doctor Haeberlins notes say that each scjuarerepresents one coil and one stitch. All of the figures extend over 21coils, with one coil or one stitch of white intervening between all boas] APPLICATION OF DESIGN TO FIELD 267 black lines. The distances between the figures are always threewhit
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