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Style
in the decorative field is liable to give a specific form to the art of
each locality.
The negroes of the Congo present an excellent example of the
transfer of design from one technique to another. Their woven
patterns consist largely of intersecting bands, imitating the interweaving
Fig. 133. Pile cloth, Congo.
of broad bands. These motives appear in most of the decorative
work of these tribes. Their embroidered pile cloth (fig. 133) imitates
the interwoven patterns; they reappear on their wood carvings,
particularly on their goblets (see fig. 52, p. 59), and on carvings on
buffal(o horns.
Interwoven bands that look like imitations of coarse weaving are also
very common in American art. They are found in many parts of South
America and among the Pueblo Indians. Some of the wood carving
of Tonga is evidently influenced in style by the artistic methods of
tying, which are highly developed in the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
Style
in the decorative field is liable to give a specific form to the art of
each locality.
The negroes of the Congo present an excellent example of the
transfer of design from one technique to another. Their woven
patterns consist largely of intersecting bands, imitating the interweaving
Fig. 133. Pile cloth, Congo.
of broad bands. These motives appear in most of the decorative
work of these tribes. Their embroidered pile cloth (fig. 133) imitates
the interwoven patterns; they reappear on their wood carvings,
particularly on their goblets (see fig. 52, p. 59), and on carvings on
buffal(o horns.
Interwoven bands that look like imitations of coarse weaving are also
very common in American art. They are found in many parts of South
America and among the Pueblo Indians. Some of the wood carving
of Tonga is evidently influenced in style by the artistic methods of
tying, which are highly developed in the islands of the Pacific Ocean.