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PRIMITIVE ART 



animals are not found as often as the two here named ; but in a 

 number of patterns exhibited in the turning-frame on the north 

 wall of the hall, combinations of a variety of aninials may be 



found. In one of these, illustrated below, are represented four 

 musk-deer (a), two frogs (c) and a number of fish (b). 



While many of these forms are fairly realistic, in other cases 

 the animal form is so highly conventionalized that it can be recog- 



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nized only because it is known to the natives as a symbol of the 

 particular animal. Thus the spirals in a birch-bark basket 

 (Case 1 6 e) are explained as two cocks which stand back to back; 

 the point marked a, in the illustration beyond, being the beak of 



