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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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appear attached to the eyebrows or to other parts of the body; the raven, by its long beak; the sea-monster, by its large head and by flippers attached to its elbows. The method of distorting the animal form in order to make it fit the decorative field is illus- trated in the specimens in Case C 13. The decorated wooden dish in the bottom of the case represents r.n animal. It is so shown that the front of the dish represents the animal's head; the sides of the dish, the sides of the body; while the narrow end in the rear represents the tail. Thus it will be seen that the dish actually represents the body of the animal hollowed out from the back. The animal forms are placed in a similar manner on painted hats, as on the one here illustrated; the whole animal being laid around the conical hat, and, as it were, being pulled over the head. In some cases the adaptations require material changes in the form of the animal. When, for instance, a fish is to be painted or carved on the front of a square box, the body of the fish must be so dis- torted as to fill as nearly as possible the whole decorative field. This is done by cutting the fish along its whole back from head to tail, by exaggerating the size of the head, twisting half of the body along each side of the decorative field and placing the tail so that its end comes just under the head. In still other cases the form of the decorative field necessitates great reduction in the size of certain
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