VARIOUS CAUSKS OF JIODIFICATIO 



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lar feature may be sliuwn liy tlic intrdiluctidiinr jiiintlici- illustratinu. 

 Ill Fig-. o4? we have a l.inl wnvm in a haskrt <,f tin' interlaced style. 

 We see with what ease the lung sliar]) bill and the slender tongues 

 (shown liya red filament between the two dark mandibles) are ex- 

 pressed. In the other case the constructiou is such that the bill, if 

 extended iuthe normal direction, is broad and s(]ii;ir(' at the end. and 

 the tongue, instead of lying l)etween the mandibli's. must run across 

 the bill, totally at variance with the truth; in this case the tongue 

 is so represented, the light vertical band seen in the cut being a yellow 

 stiipe. It will 1)6 seen that the two representations are very unlike 

 each other, not because of differences in the conception and not wholly 

 on account ot the style ot weaving, but lathei because the artist 

 chose to extend (me arioss tlu ^^ hole sulfate of the utensil and to 

 confine the otlii i to out sidi i t tin i i ntc i 



It IS deal, theietoie. tioin the inLtedui..; obsel^dtlolls that the con- 

 vention of woven lite toims vanes with the kind of Aveavmg, with 

 the shape of the object, with the position upon the object, and with 

 the sha[)e of the space (jccupied, as well as with the inherited style of 

 t reat ment and with the capacity of the artist concerned. These v'aried 

 forces and influences unite in the metamorpliosis of all the incoming 

 elements of textile embellishment. 



It will be of interest to examine somewhat closely the mollifications 

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