360 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



case do we reach a loop in the curved forms or au intersection in the 

 angular forms. The typical intersecting Greek fret does not therefore 

 occur, nor, I may add, is it found anywhere in native American art. 



The constructional characters of the art in which these linear forms 

 developed, although they encouraged geometrical elaboration, forbade 

 iutersectious or crossings of a line upon itself, and the genius of the 

 decorator had never freed itself from this bondage. The forms im- 

 posed upou decoration by the textile art are necessarily geometric and 

 rectilinear, and their employment in other and less conventional arts, 

 has been too limited to destroy or even greatly modify these characters. 



The study of Pueblo art embodied in the preceding pages tells the 

 simple story of the evolution of art — and especially of decorative art — 

 in a period when the expanding mind of primitive man, still held in the 

 firm grasp of instinctive and traditional methods — the bonds of nature — 

 was steadily working out its aesthetic destiny. 



