International studio (25.1905)

HEAD ORNAMENTS FROM KOLOKONGO-RU1UANA LAGOON

working with native-made cotours, the arrangement
is seldom harsh. Not untit the gaudy colours of trade
are introduced is the eye offended by discordant and
garish colouring. This applies to all savage artists,
and also to some who are supposed to be civilised.
The few objects shown in these pages are those
produced by people working in their own untutored
way. What effect development by instruction will
have upon the savage art instinct, is yet to be seen.
Should such education prove a disaster, the earl)*
works which remain will prove a degree of in-
telligence and capacity which is to be found to a
certain extent in all so-called savage people.
ry-SHE ETCHINGS OF ALFRED
[ EAST. BY FRANK NEWBOLT.
WHEN the Director of a Continental
Gallery bought a copy of an etching by Mr.
Alfred East called fEh/7, he recog-
nised a new force in the limited field of that
art; a new planet swam into his ken, and,
like other watchers of the skies in this country,
he was impressed by it. Visitors to the annual


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FROM THE ETCHtNG BY ALFRED EAST