Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

SOURCES OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION.

DECORATIVE ART OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

THE MATERIAL OF WHICH PATTERNS ARE MADE.

THE REASONS FOR WHICH OBJECTS ARE DECORATED.

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF STUDYING DECORATIVE ART.

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

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THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES.


Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS.

EVOLUTION IN ART.


EVOLUTION IN ART:
AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE
LIFE-HISTORIES OF DESIGNS.

BY

ALFRED C. HADDON,

Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, Corresponding
Member of the Italian Society of Anthropology, etc.

With 8 Plates, and 130 Figures in the Text.

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, LTD., PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS,
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.
1895.


THE WALTER SCOTT PRESS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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