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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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nd II we shall find thatthe greater part of them are but modifications of this figure. We shallfind the number of points projecting from the sides more or less, or twofish derived from this form interlocked, as shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 3 is from the wrappings of a mummy bundle found in thevicinity of Lima. The lines representing gill openings are straight inthis case. The characteristic projecting points from the sides are present. Fig. 4 is a design not uncommon in tapestry from the coast region inthe vicinity of Lima. It consists of four fish heads, in colors, sur-rounding a fret. During the many years that design students haveworked from these Peruvian collections, I do not remember a single casein which the fish motive was suspected in this figure until I had made itclear by drawing the forms shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The characterof such a design when it is woven in the cloth, in a variety of colors, isby no means as easily recognized as when drawn on paper in black andwhite. PLATE II
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THE FISH PERUVIAN ART 9 Figs. 5-6. Fig. 5 is a tracing of the upper fish head in Fig. I. Fig.6 was made from the same tracing, but in inking it, straight lines downfrom the mouth were substituted for the step-form ones of Fig. 5, andthis gives us exactly the same head as seen in the fish form at Fig. 2.These step-form lines, caused by the technique of weaving, often dis-guise a form that would be obvious if the lines were straight. Fig. 7 shows the interlocked fish design, a form of decoration verycommon over most of the coast region, where it is found on borders ofponchos, belts, etc. In the poncho border from which this figure wastaken the decoration is in diagonal bands, each band having two colors.The black fish shown is interlocked with one in red. The bands on eitherside are in different colors. A repetition of the same figure, but indifferent colors, arranged either in rows or, as in this illustration, indiagonal bands, is a prominent characteristic of Peruvian art. If weexamin

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