Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . made of rods orslats and a loose outer armor of heavy hide. All of these were painted 1 See Emmons 2. 54 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY IETH. ANN. 31 with the crest designs of the wearer. Greaves were worn over theshins, and the head was covered wilh a hehnet. Household utensils, canoes, and practically all objects utilized bythe natives, are elaborately decorated. This is true particularly of __^ their woodwork. The style of decoration is very char-acteristic. Only anunal mo-tives are applied, each design
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . made of rods orslats and a loose outer armor of heavy hide. All of these were painted 1 See Emmons 2. 54 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY IETH. ANN. 31 with the crest designs of the wearer. Greaves were worn over theshins, and the head was covered wilh a hehnet. Household utensils, canoes, and practically all objects utilized bythe natives, are elaborately decorated. This is true particularly of __^ their woodwork. The style of decoration is very char-acteristic. Only anunal mo-tives are applied, each designgenerally consisting of a com-bination of various parts ofan animals body, whoseforms, although highly con-ventionalized, are easily rec-ognized. The conventionaltype of this art is basedon the principle, so commonin the art of children andof primitive people, of representing what appear to the artistas the essential parts of the animal, with little regard to theirarrangement in space. This method of representation is developedhere to a high artistic perfection. In general, the artist endeavors. Fig. 14. stone mortar.
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