44 LAUFER, THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES. 



jaws, the fore-legs with paws outstretched, with only one hind-leg, and tail 

 upturned ; an eagle grasping a fish in its beak (&amp;lt;f), this conception being very 

 likely derived from the cock holding the same little creature in its beak ; a flying 

 wild duck (V) ; a musk-deer with a design of a conventionalized bipartite fish on 

 its body (d} ; a fox lying in ambush (e) ; frogs (/^and^) ; a horse and its rider 

 (/&amp;lt;;) ; an eagle flapping its wing and having a foot with three outstretched claws 

 (z ) ; what is said to be a glutton (/). 



Fig. 21 represents nearly one-fourth part of a paper pattern that is divided 

 again into two symmetrical parts. The ornaments are distributed over four 

 large and twenty-six small quadrangular and ten triangular fields. In the large 

 rectangle to the left are united four strongly conventionalized dragons, whose 

 heads merge into the geometrical figure a, and whose tails are distinctly marked 

 in the palmate figure b. The body itself is not drawn, but merely symbolized by 

 spiral windings. 



On the small squares surrounding the large figure just described, a number of 

 animals are shown. The three small squares designated as c contain representa 

 tions of spiders formed in a way similar to that of the dragon s tail. I n one of them 

 are drawn the outlines of three conventionalized fishes, d represents a raccoon- 

 like dog (Cam s procyonoidcs or viverrinus) with five cross-stripes ; e is a young 

 musk-deer ; f, a frog ; and g is a wild duck in the act of flying, the wing 

 being marked by a trapezoid containing an inscribed smaller trapezoid ; h is a roe 

 with neck turned backward ; z, a cock with outspread wing and erect tail-feath 

 ers ; j is a wild reindeer ; k is identical with d ; I is a wolf ; and m represents a 

 wild goose. 



Proceeding to the triangles at the bottom of the design, we find a doe looking 

 backward {) ; to the left of it a conventionalized deer with recurved cock-neck ; 

 o is a lizard. 



The large squares on the right are divided by bands into a number of fields, 

 which are also filled with animal figures. In the lower square we find to the left 

 an elk (/&amp;gt;), above which are three quadrupeds, one of them a stag ; q is a double 

 eagle with body in common and outspread wings ; r is a wild duck ; 5 is a 

 panther; and t, a jumping tiger. In the second square are seen roes (u) with 

 rebent necks ; v, a duck ; w, a swallow ; x, a frog ; y, a flying wild duck (cf. g] ; 

 2, a galloping hound. 



Fig. 22 is a pattern for a blanket, cut out of paper. There is a central 

 piece with an upper and lower edge. The main ground is taken up with two 

 dragons wound in the form of spirals, the heads (a) of which lie in the termini of 

 these spirals. The space inside of the dragon-spirals is occupied by represen 

 tations of animals, which correspond to each other on both sides. As a sort of 

 decorative csesura, a large frog (&amp;lt;$) and a smaller adjoining one are inserted. 

 The intervening spaces between the dragons above and those below are filled up 

 with four tortoises (V). Close against the dragon s head a fox is leaning, followed 

 by a wild duck (d} on the other side of the head. In e is represented a branch 



