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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lo PRIMITIVE ART Sometimes, in the effort to bring the animal form into the decorative field, the animal is dissected and distorted in a most astonishing manner. This is particularly true in the case of the large ceremonial blankets woven by these tribes, in which various parts of the animal body seem to be combined in the most irreg- ular manner, although really each part represents a definite por- tion of the animal represented. The blanket above Case D 3 and the explanatory model in that section illustrate this dissection. Similar distortions occur in paintings. For instance, in the copy of a painting from a house-front (Case D 3), representing the killer-
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whale, the central part of the figure represents the head of the whale. The flippers are shown close to the corners of the jaws, half of the blow-hole and half of the dorsal fin in the right and left hand upper corners, while the tail is shown just over the head. A collection of designs representing various animals, indicated by their symbols and distorted so as to fit the decorative field, is shown in the exhibition cases. The lower part of Case 3 c con- tains representations of the dog-fish or shark. Case 3 b contains representations of a mythical sea-monster. In Case D i the sea- lion, sculpin, raven, crane, frog and seal are shown. Case D 2 contains representations of the beaver, all of which are charac- terized by the large incisors and the tail with hachure. Case D 3 contains representations of the killer-whale, characterized by

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  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:190
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