Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 14. stone Fig. ir>. Iainted skin blanket. by distortion and dissection to fit the whole animal as nearlyas possible into the decorative field. This is frequently accom-plished by splitting the animal in two, and by representing BOAS] BKIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE TSIMSHIAN 55 the two halves spread out; but many other processes are used. Theforms are expressed hi curved lines, and there is a tendency to utilizeoval fields, which may he elaborated by a group of concentric or

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