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LAUFER, THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES. 



their heads, eyes, gills, bodies, and tapering tails are plainly marked by black 

 lines. These somewhat angular spirals are rounded off above by a projection in 

 which a conventionalized fish is drawn. 



Fig. 2, Plate xit, is an embroidery for trimming the front and upper edges 

 of a garment. This is a very good example for illustrating the amalgamation 

 of the fish and spiral. It is a continuous fish-spiral pattern. The basis of this 

 ornament is a combination of a pair of double spirals contiguous to each other 

 in the corner between the upper and front edges. In these spirals we see head 



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body, and tail of the fishes thoroughly characterized. In the pair of spirals next 

 below this corner the spirals retain their rigid forms, and the conventionalized fishes 

 combined with each other are placed around them independently. Their forms 

 have the usual fish-outlines, as shown by a comparison with the preceding fishes. 

 The next spiral below differs from the corresponding first one in that the head 

 is not separated by a special line from the trunk, but only indicated in its form. 

 The principle of the ornament on the embroidery-pattern in Fig. 3, Plate 

 xii, is based on the combination of facing spirals, treated partly as cocks, partly 



