Art, Prehistoric; Folk literature -- History and criticism
The plan of one of these designs is illustrated in fig. 33.[27] There
are eight rectangular fields with two designs (1 and 2); those right
and left of the middle line and those above and below the horizontal
middle line are symmetrical in regard to form. In color, 1 corresponds
to 1^b and 1^a to 1^c; also 2 corresponds in color to 2^b and 2^a to 2^c.
The colors being in all these cases, on the whole, reversed. 1, 2, and
1^b, 2^b have a yellowish background and a red field surrounding the
tree shaped design; 1^a, 2^a and 1^c, 2^c have a light red background
and a greenish field surrounding the tree shaped figure. The whole
field, consisting of four sections, is followed in the whole decorated
stripe by another set of four sections in form like the preceding one.
In this the background of 1 and 2, 1^b and 2^b is blue, of 1^a, 2^a
and 1^c, 2^c yellowish. The field surrounding the tree shaped figure
is yellowish in 1 and 1^b, greenish in 1^a, and 1^c. Taken as a whole,
the right side is practically the same as the left, turned upside down.
The order of fields on the left from the top downward and for the right
side from below upward, is according to the color of the background,
abbreviating, r red, y yellow, b blue:
r r y y / y y b b / r r y y / y y
b b / r r y y / y y b b / r r y y /.
[27] Walter Lehmann, Kunstgeschichte des alten Peru, Berlin 1924,
Plates 3 and 4.
[Illustration: Fig. 34. Designs from Peruvian textile.]
A second example is shown in fig. 34. In this specimen the diagonally
arranged fields marked 1, _a_, 2, _b_ [28] have the same color scheme.
[28] These remarks refer also to the fields marked as 1′, 1″ etc.
The larger fields in 1 are yellow, the lesser black. The larger fields
in 2 are pink, the lesser grey. The background in _b_ is grey, the
scroll purple. The background in _a_ is dark grey, the scroll light
purple.
[Illustration: Fig. 35. Pot of coiled pottery, Prehistoric Pueblo
Indians.]
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