PLATE I.—SKEUOMORPHS OF BINDING.
- FIGS.
- 1. Part of the stone axe of Montezuma II., Ambras Museum, Vienna (J. Evans, The Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain and Ireland, 1881, Fig. 180, p. 148).
- 2. Socket of a bronze spear-head, Co. Galway, Ireland (Evans, loc. cit., Fig. 393, p. 320).
- 3. Socket of a bronze spear-head, Ireland (Evans, loc. cit., Fig. 402, p. 326).
- 4. Bronze palstave (socketed celt), Co. Meath, Ireland (Evans, loc. cit., Fig. 172, p. 140).
- 5. Bronze vessel, Lake of Bourget (F. Keller, The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, 2nd ed., 1878, Plate CLIX., Fig. 1).
- 6. Pattern on an ebony comb, Assyria (G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria, ii., 1884, Fig. 227, p. 350).
- 7. Pattern on a sculptured stone cornice (Perrot and Chipiez, History of Ancient Egyptian Art, ii., 1883, Fig. 288, p. 361, from Prisse d’Avennes).
- 8. Pattern on a perforated bone needle, Tumulus, Holyhead (W. Owen Stanley, Arch, Journ., xxxiii., 1876, pp. 94, 133).
- 9. Back of a bronze knife, Estavayer (Keller, loc. cit., Plate XCVI., Fig. 12).
- 10. Bronze palstave, near Kingston-on-Thames (Evans, loc. cit., Fig. 141, p. 125).
- 11. Bronze palstave, Fornham, near Bury St. Edmunds (Evans, loc. cit., Fig. 133, p. 122).
- a. “Angular Meander,” Wolvesey Castle, Winchester, temp. Stephen (Archæologia, xvi., 1812, p. 361, Plate LXII., Fig. 3).
- b. Norman capital, “sections of branches” or billet ends, Peterborough Cathedral (Archæologia, xii., 1796, Plate XXXI., Fig. 4, p. 168).
- c. Hut-urn, Etruscan, Monte Albano (Museo Kircheriano, Rome),
- d-f. Skeuomorphs of the gable (Household Furniture).
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PLATE II.—SKEUOMORPHS OF WATTLE-WORK.
- FIGS.
- 1. Impression of wattle-work on clay, Ebersberg (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXLIV., Fig. 16).
- 2. Bast twisted among willow rods, Robenhausen (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXXXIV., Fig. 5).
- 3. Mat of bast, Robenhausen (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXXXIV., Fig. 2).
- 4. Fabric of flax, Robenhausen (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXXXVI., Fig. 4).
- 5. Fabric of bast, Robenhausen (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXXXV., Fig. 3).
- 6. Corbula, Italy (W. Smith, Dict. Roman Antiq., p. 285).
- 7. Basket on ivory plaque, Boulak (Perrot and Chipiez, Egypt, ii., Fig. 321, p. 388).
- 8. Earthenware food-vessel, Stone Age, Denmark (Worsaae, Danish Arts, p. 36).
- 9. Bottom of a basket, Terramara Beds, Northern Italy (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXVI., Fig. 11).
- 10. Fragment of Pottery, Terramara Beds, Northern Italy (Keller, loc. cit., Plate CXIII., Fig. 13).