. Bulletin. Ethnology. Shell gorget with Figure of spider and conventional- IZED Cross marking. (2-5). Navaho Basket Th CROSSES REPRESEh Four world-quar Stars or Clouds. (.) Arapahomed cine-case lh (kroeber) mic bodies, as the sun and the stars, par, ticularly the morning and evening stars- as among the triljes of the S. W. Tliese fig- ures, generally very simple in form, may be symbols of mythic powers and personages; and when used in non-symbolic art they may in time lose the symbolic char- acter and remain in art as mere formal decorative patterns. (3) Distinct from these again are a lar
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Shell gorget with Figure of spider and conventional- IZED Cross marking. (2-5). Navaho Basket Th CROSSES REPRESEh Four world-quar Stars or Clouds. (.) Arapahomed cine-case lh (kroeber) mic bodies, as the sun and the stars, par, ticularly the morning and evening stars- as among the triljes of the S. W. Tliese fig- ures, generally very simple in form, may be symbols of mythic powers and personages; and when used in non-symbolic art they may in time lose the symbolic char- acter and remain in art as mere formal decorative patterns. (3) Distinct from these again are a large class of crosses and cross- like forms which have an ad- ventitious origin, being the re- sult of the combined mechan- ical and esthetic requirements of embellishment. In nearly all branches of art in which surface ornament is an impor- tant factor the spaces availa- ble for decorative designs are squares, rectangles, circles, and ovals, or are borders or zones which are divided into squares or parallelograms for ready treatment. When simple figures, symbolic or non- symbolic, are filled into these spaces, they are introiluced, not singly, since the result would be unsatisfac- tory from the point of view of the deco- rator; not in pairs, as that would be lit- tle better, but in fours, thus filling the spaces evenh and synnnetrically. This quadruple ar- rangement in amul- titude of cases pro- duces the cross which, although a pseudo cross, is not always to be distin- guished from the cross symbol. The sep- arate elements in such crosses may be figures of men, insects, mountains, clouds, frets, and scrolls, or what not, and of themselves symbolic, but the cross thus produced is an acci- dent and as a cross is withoutsignificance. (4) In very many cases de- signs are invented by the primitive decorator who fills the available spaces to beautify articles man- ufactured, and the ar- rangement in fours is of- ten the most natural and effective that can be de- vised. These designs,
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