. Bulletin. Ethnology. ENGRAVED DESIGNS—Slate Plaque of the haida bone, stone, ami metal, embodies animal forms almost exclusively, and is always highly conventional though never fully geometric in style. That of the mound- builders, wliile employing life forms to. engraved designs—silver bracelets of the haida, with Animal Figures, (niblack.) some extent, is largely geometric. The PueVjlos relied on the brush rather than on the graver for their ornament. Picto- graphic inscriptions executed in incised lines on rock, birchbark, and other sur- faces, are not properly classed as orna- ment. Engr
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ENGRAVED DESIGNS—Slate Plaque of the haida bone, stone, ami metal, embodies animal forms almost exclusively, and is always highly conventional though never fully geometric in style. That of the mound- builders, wliile employing life forms to. engraved designs—silver bracelets of the haida, with Animal Figures, (niblack.) some extent, is largely geometric. The PueVjlos relied on the brush rather than on the graver for their ornament. Picto- graphic inscriptions executed in incised lines on rock, birchbark, and other sur- faces, are not properly classed as orna- ment. Engraved decoration has closely associated with it in the potter's art a range of imprinted and stamped figures which are usually quite formal, as in the ancient pottery of the Southern and Eastern states and in the coil ware of the ancient Pueblos. Engraved design em- ployed in heraldic, totemic, and religious art is usually the work of the men; applied to domestic art, as in ceramics, it is the work of the women. (4) Embellishments in color (seePaint- ing, Dry-painting, Dyes and Pigments, Tattooing) are applied to objects or sur- faces by means of a great variety of im- plements and devices, and in the form of paints, dry pigments, stains, and dyes, or are pricked into the skin. They take a prominent place in the art of the northern aborigines. Color ornament, in its simplest form, consists in the appli- cation of plain colors to the person and to the surface of objects, but more com- monly it takes the form of pictorial and conventional designs of wide range; and,. 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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