DOI Heft:
No. 62 (April, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A country cottage
DOI Artikel:Praetorius, Charles J.: Decorative art in New Guinea, 1
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22773#0115
Decorative Art in New Guinea
A frigate bird and a native rendering
dipped hedges of yew and box; but the beauty
°f such a garden is only to be attained by a
c°nstant strife with Nature, and the occupier of
the house under consideration will hardly be pre-
pared to maintain such a warfare with constancy
and success. He will not attempt, for instance,
Accessions of flowers in his borders, but will be
content with those hardy perennials which appear,
unasked and unattended, year by year. In his
healings with Nature he will seek rather to take
her into his confidence, and, without any desire to
achieve the horrors of the landscape garden, he
w'll not push the craft of the gardener so far as to
drive Nature beyond the garden fence. If the
'units of his land allow there must be an orchard,
*n which the quality of the
^ruit will not be the only
c°nsideration. In the grass
Under the trees daffodils,
anemones, and snowdrops
'v,h proclaim the spring,
aUd in the autumn apples
filing in the deep, cool
Srass, and a thousand
uuniature suns piercing the
S°lden green of the leaves,
may form pleasant sur-
r°Undings for an idle after-
Uoon.
The garden, indeed, like
fr>e dwelling, will be of the
c°ttage kind, of which so
many beautiful examples may
be found in English villages
beyond the influence of villa-
dom, and where the recent
restorations to the church, and
the new board school are the
only blots upon the scene.
ECORATIVE
ART IN NEW
GUINEA.
PART I WRITTEN
AND ILLUSTRATED
BY C. J. PR^ETORIUS.
New Guinea is the second
largest island in the world,
and although the coast and
neighbouring islands are
fairly well known, the vast
interior of British New Guinea remains to be ex-
plored. Travellers who are willing to risk the
dangerous climate and the head-hunting proclivities
of the natives can secure many pieces of fine
old native work. The south-east portion of British
New Guinea and some of the adjacent islands have
already been studied by able anthropologists; while
many habits and customs have been observed and
recorded by missionaries working in the country.
The decorative arts of certain districts have been
scientifically examined, compared and classified in
an admirable work by Prof. A. C. Haddon—a work
which it would be impossible to produce a few
years hence, so rapidly are the conditions of native
life changing.
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A frigate bird and a native rendering
dipped hedges of yew and box; but the beauty
°f such a garden is only to be attained by a
c°nstant strife with Nature, and the occupier of
the house under consideration will hardly be pre-
pared to maintain such a warfare with constancy
and success. He will not attempt, for instance,
Accessions of flowers in his borders, but will be
content with those hardy perennials which appear,
unasked and unattended, year by year. In his
healings with Nature he will seek rather to take
her into his confidence, and, without any desire to
achieve the horrors of the landscape garden, he
w'll not push the craft of the gardener so far as to
drive Nature beyond the garden fence. If the
'units of his land allow there must be an orchard,
*n which the quality of the
^ruit will not be the only
c°nsideration. In the grass
Under the trees daffodils,
anemones, and snowdrops
'v,h proclaim the spring,
aUd in the autumn apples
filing in the deep, cool
Srass, and a thousand
uuniature suns piercing the
S°lden green of the leaves,
may form pleasant sur-
r°Undings for an idle after-
Uoon.
The garden, indeed, like
fr>e dwelling, will be of the
c°ttage kind, of which so
many beautiful examples may
be found in English villages
beyond the influence of villa-
dom, and where the recent
restorations to the church, and
the new board school are the
only blots upon the scene.
ECORATIVE
ART IN NEW
GUINEA.
PART I WRITTEN
AND ILLUSTRATED
BY C. J. PR^ETORIUS.
New Guinea is the second
largest island in the world,
and although the coast and
neighbouring islands are
fairly well known, the vast
interior of British New Guinea remains to be ex-
plored. Travellers who are willing to risk the
dangerous climate and the head-hunting proclivities
of the natives can secure many pieces of fine
old native work. The south-east portion of British
New Guinea and some of the adjacent islands have
already been studied by able anthropologists; while
many habits and customs have been observed and
recorded by missionaries working in the country.
The decorative arts of certain districts have been
scientifically examined, compared and classified in
an admirable work by Prof. A. C. Haddon—a work
which it would be impossible to produce a few
years hence, so rapidly are the conditions of native
life changing.
95