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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin1281941smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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254 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (Boll. 128 serrations on its straight edge (fig. 19, d),"^^ are among those of an old native derivation, according to the testimony of their users. For several others, namely, the mapleleaf (ana'tukw ani-'bi-c) and the five-pointed star (fig. 16, a) and the cross (tciba'iatok, "ghost-
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FiGUEE 11.—Designs from birchbark containers (Timiskaming Band). a. Hares (NMC, lU, L, 108); 6, beaver (NMC, III, L, 102); c, beavers opposed; d, beaver (NMC, HI, L, 101); e, cocks opposed symmetrically (NMC, III, L, 103); /, g, doe and duck (on opposite sides of basket) (NMC, III, L, 102); ft, bears opposed symmetrically under "double-curve" tree (NMC, L, 100). •' An identical flgure occurs in Delaware art under the name of "flame." To the Delaware this figure is an ancient one by tradition, as stated by Tom Half Moon's wife, who employed it in her bead-and-ribbon work. Since the figure, which attracted some attention through these occurrences, is a possible legacy in the art register of the woodlands from an early period, I took occasion to make a casual search for its appearance in the designs of living groups and in archeological material. Results so far have been to show its occurrence in Winnebago beadwork and Delaware-Munsee ribbon work. In Osage beadwork on a cloth coat, and finally (most significantly) as an incised ornamentation upon the body of a vessel excavated by Clarence B. Moore in a mound on Black Warrior River, Ala., and figured in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2d Ser., vol. 13, pt. 2, 1905, fig. 74, p. 183. In all of these instances its form is identical with the figure illustrated herewith (fig. 19, d). Whence the native estimate of Its age and character may be con- sidered as worthy of further attention by investigators of art history in the East.

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