Decoration | | | PAGE | | Introduction | 1 | | The Decorative Art of British New Guinea: as an Example of the Method of Study | 11 | | I. | Torres Straits and Daudai | 13 | | II. | The Fly River | 26 | | III. | The Papuan Gulf | 29 | | IV. | The Central District | 42 | | V. | The Massim District | 47 | | VI. | Relation of the Decorative Art to the Ethnology of British New Guinea | 59 | | VII. | Note on the Scroll Designs of British New Guinea | 67 | | The Material of Which Patterns Are Made | 74 | | I. | The Decorative Transformation and Transference of Artificial Objects (Skeuomorphs) | 75 | | 1. | Transformation of a Solitary Object | 76 | | 2. | Transference of Fastenings | 84 | | 3. | Skeuomorphs of Textiles | 89 | | 4. | Skeuomorphic Pottery | 97 | | 5. | Stone Skeuomorphs of Wooden Buildings | 114 | | 6. | Skeuomorphic Inappropriateness | 116 | | II. | The Decorative Transformation of Natural Objects | 118 | | 1. | Physicomorphs | 118 | | 2. | Biomorphs; A. Representation of Abstract Ideas of Life; B. Phyllomorphs: The Lotus and its Wanderings; C. Zoomorphs; D. Anthropomorphs; E. Biomorphic Pottery | 126 | | 3. | Heteromorphs | 192 | | The Reasons for Which Objects Are Decorated | 200 | | I. | Art | 200 | | II. | Information | 203 | | III. | Wealth | 222 | | IV. | Magic and Religion | 235 | | 1. | Sympathetic Magic | 235 | | 2. | Totemism | 250 | | 3. | Religion | 267 | | 4. | Religious Symbolism; A. The Meaning and Distribution of the Fylfot; B. The Psychology of Symbolism | 275 | | The Scientific Method of Studying Decorative Art | 306 | | I. | Applic
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