DOI issue:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI article:Silas, Ellis: The art of the Trobriand islanders
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0154
THE ART OF THE TROBRIAND ISLANDERS
(6) PIG CARVED IN MANGROVE WOOD
DECORATION ON FORELEGS TO BALANCE
ORNAMENT ON TAIL (MODERN)
(Quarter actual size)
work, and the restrictions imposed by the practised, and to relieve the otherwise
crude implements which they use, they flat, dead appearance which would occur
never attempt a useless tour-de-force, in their ornament, they enrich the design
invariably basing their designs upon the by making deeper incisions in sections
strongest constructional lines. a a of the detail. Their modelling in the
Very little, if any, undercutting is used, high relief is, as a rule, very crude,
but a fret-cut is extensively employed, although I happened to see one carving
particularly on their smaller pieces such —a female figure—in which the model-
as the lime spatulas. Bas-relief is rarely ling of the busts was, in its way, a
(7) CARVING UPON PORTION OF
PROW OF A CANOE (MAIKU WOOD)
{Nearly half actual size)
134
(6) PIG CARVED IN MANGROVE WOOD
DECORATION ON FORELEGS TO BALANCE
ORNAMENT ON TAIL (MODERN)
(Quarter actual size)
work, and the restrictions imposed by the practised, and to relieve the otherwise
crude implements which they use, they flat, dead appearance which would occur
never attempt a useless tour-de-force, in their ornament, they enrich the design
invariably basing their designs upon the by making deeper incisions in sections
strongest constructional lines. a a of the detail. Their modelling in the
Very little, if any, undercutting is used, high relief is, as a rule, very crude,
but a fret-cut is extensively employed, although I happened to see one carving
particularly on their smaller pieces such —a female figure—in which the model-
as the lime spatulas. Bas-relief is rarely ling of the busts was, in its way, a
(7) CARVING UPON PORTION OF
PROW OF A CANOE (MAIKU WOOD)
{Nearly half actual size)
134