LAUFER, THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES. 



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of an engrailed line. In Fig. 3 the band surrounding the two facing spiral 

 decorated with six small scrolls, which branch off from it at a tangent. 



In Fig. 4, four pairs of facing 

 spirals are placed around a star-like 

 rosette (so-called &quot; star-cross &quot;). The 

 design corresponds to or recalls the 

 anchored or forked cross of mediaeval 

 heraldry with convoluted flukes. In 

 Fig. 5 the spirals join a somewhat 

 square-shaped figure, in the angles 

 of which are found flower-buds with 

 four circles in front of them, and in 

 the centre a rhombus with curved 

 sides. 



Figs. 6 and 7 represent the be 

 ginnings of two decorations placed 

 longitudinally in the interior of the 

 prow of a boat. They may be ex 

 tended at either end at will. Fig. 6 consists of a star-cross and a double design 

 whose elements are formed according to a principle similar to that employed in 

 Fig. 2, except that the spirals have only one winding, and face each other. 

 Whereas Fig. 6 consists of a series of two different designs, Fig. 7 is composed 

 of only one figure. As this ornament, like the preceding one, is executed with 



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width, 31 



FIG. 5. 



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perfect symmetry, there is but one motive, the scroll, which terminates in a horn 

 like offshoot with an adjoining semicircle. 



OTHER BIRCH-HARK PATTERNS. Figs. 8 and 9 arc patterns cut out of birch- 

 bark, used for embroidering ear-lappets. Both consist largely of spirals. In Fig. 

 8 is seen a lower row of four spirals surmounted by a triangular field filled with 



