known step in Egyptian art,
is encircled by a band of painted figures, borrowed, like those of the
pottery, from a textile source. The doorway or rather entrance to the
rude hovel of a Navajo Indian is closed by a blanket of native make,
unsurpassed in execution and exhibiting conventional designs of a high
order.

[Illustration: FIG. 357. Portion of a tapa stamp, showing its
subtextile character. A palm leaf is cut to the desired shape and the
patterns are sewed in or stitched on.]

[Illustration: FIG. 358. Design in stucco, exhibiting textile
characters.]

The ancient "hall of the arabesques" at Chimu, Peru, is decorated in
elaborate designs that could only have arisen in the textile art
(Fig. 358), and other equally striking examples are to be found in
other American countries. The classic surface decorations known and
used in Oriental countries from time immemorial prevailed in
indigenous American architecture at a stage of culture lower than any
known stage of classic art.

It may appear that I have advocated too strongly the claims of the
textile art to the parentage of geometric ornament and that the
conclusions reached are not entirely satisfactory, but I have
endeavored so to present the varied phenomena of the art that the
student may readily reach deductions of his own. A correspondingly
careful study of other branches of art will probably enable us finally
to form a just estimate of the relative importance of the forces and
tendencies concerned in the evolution of decoration.

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INDEX

Alaskan Indians, illustration of ornamentation by 199
Ancon, Peru, examples of ornamentation from graves at 212, 230,
231, 236, 243, 248
Apache, illustrations of ornamentation by 198, 213, 223
British Guiana Indians, illustrations of ornamentation by 217
Chimu, Peru, ornamentation of "hall of arabesques" at 251, 252
Clallam Indians, illustrations of ornamentation by 207
Color in textile art 201, 202
Color phenomena in textile ornament 215-232
Form in textile art and its relation to ornament, with illustrations
from Indian work 196-201
Geometric design, relations of, to textile ornament 202-244
Holmes, W. H. paper by, on textile art in its relation to the
development of form and ornament 189-252
Klamath Indians, illustrations of ornamentation by 208, 209, 227
McCloud River Indians, illustrations of ornamentation by 221
Moki, illustrations of ornamentation by