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464 DECORATIVE ART part 11
works towards the middle. On the other hand,
the design for the central panel is usually the first part
to be incised by way of a commencement. The vari-
ous kinds of cross-lines have already been partially
described in connection with the comb patterns.^ [The
following rules, however, have also to be observed.
The not uncommon figure a must never be hatched
at the point of intersection.- The right-angled cross-
lines are scarcely ever inserted, except where they can
be given their full length (see figure b). Exceptions
may, however, be seen in quiver A2, part 3, in 8 and
9,
1 1 and 1 2 (lines counted from the left). Special
attention should be given to the cross-lines of two
pairs of parallel lines in and about the space formed
by their intersection (see, for instance, figure b, as
well as quiver O, quiver O, parts 3, 4, and 6). To
these should be added many other kinds of cross-lines
which help to produce a difference in the patterns {e.g.
parallel and slanting cross-lines). The effect of these
will become evident through a closer consideration of
the designs. Their number is usually quite arbitrary.]
Very short strokes have the same significance as
dots :
they
are produced by means of a blunt-pointed
knife (see, e.g., No. 24). The broad black stripes and
figures of the designs here given are produced in the
originals by peeling the part and colouring it black.^
Classification of the Patterjis.^
If the general arrangement of the blowpipe
patterns is compared with that of the quivers and
1 See Z.f. E. xxv. 85. nately only too typical of the hair-
- These so-called " rules "—to taboo splitting character of much of V^aughanthe
cross-hatching of a point, and to Stevens' work.
say that a line may only be inserted ^ Z.f.E. xxxi. 164.
when there is room for it—are unfortu- "* Ibid. pp. 147-159.