Art, Prehistoric; Folk literature -- History and criticism
In figure 41[35] we have another band which consists of diagonal
patterns framed by red lines except in one place where a black frame is
found. As on the preceding specimen the black serves to separate the
red and yellow. The design is the same all through, and the order of
the elements as follows:
[35] Ibid, p. 67, fig. 6.
yellow red yellow brown yellow
black frame black zig-zag red frame red zig-zag red frame
blue-green yellow purple
red zig-zag red frame red zig-zag
In other words the essential sequence is yellow, red, yellow, brown,
yellow, blue-green, yellow, purple; a series of eight elements.
[Illustration: Fig. 42. Peruvian fabric.]
In figure 42 we find a border of simple interlocking S shaped designs
in the order, white, dark blue, light blue, yellow, brown; a series of
five elements which are repeated regularly.
[Illustration: Fig. 43. Peruvian fabric.]
Figure 43 represents a part of a design on a poncho in which, from
above downward we have a series of six pairs of a fret design in the
following arrangement:
green, red
yellow, blue
white, purple
yellow, brown
light red, black
the sixth line repeats the color sequence of the first.
Figure 44 is a somewhat complicated design which is not completely
shown in the section here represented. The principle of the pattern is
illustrated in figure 44_b_. The sequence of color of the S shaped head
design is purple, yellow, green, on a red background.
In figure 45 we have a decorative band with the color sequence yellow,
green, yellow, green, light yellow, white, yellow, green, yellow;
obviously a series of six units. The designs on the background of these
colors are all in red.
[Illustration: _b_]
[Illustration: Fig. 44. Peruvian fabric.]
[Illustration: Fig. 45. Peruvian fabric.]
[Illustration: Fig. 46. Peruvian fabric.]
In figure 46 a border is shown which has the color arrangement, from
left to right:
pink—black,
red—yellow,
light gray—dark gray,
black—pink,
yellow—red,
dark gray—light gray.
In this specimen there is a systematic inversion of color values; what
is light in the first set of three is dark in the second three. This
tendency is quite marked in a considerable number of cases. We have for
instance, a series of
white, red, yellow;—gray, pink, yellow,
where the white corresponds to the dark gray and the red to the light
pink.
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