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

by Alfred C. Haddon

• Maces, evolution of, [222]
• Macfarlane, Rev. S., [63]
• Macgillivray, [224]
• Macgregor, Sir W., [28], [58], [225]
• Magic knots, [248]-[250];
• patterns, [237]-[248];
• sympathetic, [5], [6], [235]-[250]
• Maiva belt, [39]
• Malacca, magic patterns, [237]-[248];
• phyllomorphs of, [132];
• totemism and tattooing in, [252]-[254]
• Malay Archipelago, decorative art, [67]-[70], [326];
• plant designs, [131], [132]
• Malay culture derived from India, [67], [69]
• Malay Peninsula, magic patterns, [236]-[248]
• Malaysia, scroll designs, [67]
• Mallery, Col. Garrick, [275];
• colour symbolism, [124];
• pictographs, [204]-[213], [215];
• sign language, [212]
• Man, E. H., on pottery, [100]
• Mandrake, [6]
• Mangaia adzes, [80]-[84];
• decoration on adzes and paddles of, [270]-[274];
• anthropomorphs, [185], [186], [265], [270]-[274];
• totemism, [255]
• Manhood, initiation into, [30], [31], [61]
• Manx, three-legged, [214]
• Maori scroll designs, [72]
• Map, Lean-Wolf’s, [208]-[210]
• March, Dr. H. Colley, [6], [44], [65], [66], [75], [82], [84], [91], [93], [115], [130], [147], [163], [179], [194], [197], [198], [248], [250], [271]-[274], [276], [285], [288]
• Marks, trade and owner’s, [203]
• Masks, New Guinea, [62];
• Papuan Gulf, [30];
• Torres Straits, [18], [30]
• Maspero, Prof., [296];
• on Ra, [137];
• on Egyptian art, [148], [248]
• Massim, district groups of, [47]-[58]
• Mathews on symbolic colours, [24]
• Mats, making of, [90]
• Meander (see Fret)
• Melanesian, use of term, [60];
• ethnology and handicraft, [60]-[66];
• frigate-bird, [265]-[267];
• pottery, [158], [159]
• Melos lotus designs, [158];
• spirals, [142];
• vase decoration, [139]
• Men, drawings of, [16]-[19]
• Mereschu fish pattern, [176]-[179]
• Mesembria, [290]
• Mesopotamian art, [143]
• Method of studying art, [306]-[336]
• Mexico, New, bird patterns, [179]
• Miava, [44]
• Millies, H. C., Oriental money, [227]
• Milloué, M. de, [287]
• Milne Gulf, [47]
• Mohammedan art, [151], [152]
• Money, evolution of, [223]-[234]
• Montelius, Dr., on spirals, [93]
• Montezuma’s stone axe, [85]
• Moon symbol, [292]
• Moresby Group, [47]
• Moseley, Professor, Hawaian gods, [186]
• Motu Motu, [29]
• Motu tribes, [46], [61];
• ethnography, [64]-[66];
• girl tattooed, [43];
• trading voyages, [330]
• Müller, Max, [280], [292], [331];
• on colour symbols, [124]
• Murray Island (Mer), [18];
• native drawing of, [125];
• ornaments derived from fish-hook, [76]
• Murray, Prof. A. S., [292]
• Mycenæ art, [142];
• totemism, [265];
• vessel, [92]

• Naukratis lotus, [161]
• Neandria capital, [158]
• Net, fishing, designs, [176], [177]
• Netherlands New Guinea, [28], [325]
• New Caledonia pottery, [97], [98]
• New Guinea, [11];
• animal representations, [164], [165];
• anthropomorphs, [184];
• art, [324]-[328];
• barter in, [46]-[48], [223]-[225];
• bird’s-head designs, [49]-[58];
• bird and crocodile design, [56];
• bull-roarer, [62];
• Central district of, [42]-[46];
• ethnology of British, [59]-[66];
• ethnology of, [328];
• hill tribes, [46];
• metamorphosis of stone axe, [78];
• phyllomorphs, [131];
• “Polynesians” in, [63];
• pottery, [46]-[48], [62], [98];
• scroll patterns, [67]-[73], [314];
• tapa belts, [96];
• tattooing, [43]-[45]
• New Hebrides, [66]
• New Ireland carvings, [265]
• Newton, J., [214]
• New Zealand anthropomorphs, [185];
• ethnology of, [71];
• scroll designs, [67], [68], [71], [72];
• tongue thrusting, [186], [187]
• North American totems, [257]

• Oceania pottery, [97]
• Olbia, fish money, [230], [231], [233]
• Orang-hûtan, [242], [334]
• Ornaments as money, [224], [228], [229]
• Osiris, lotus offering to, [136]

• Paddle with fish designs, [176], [177]
• Pagan and Christian overlap in art, [195]-[197]
• Painting on body, [253], [254]
• Palstave, [85]
• Pannaet axe-money, [225];
• canoes, [48]
• Papuan, use of term, [60];
• ethnology and handicraft, [60]-[66]
• Papuan Gulf, [29]-[41];
• classification of wooden belts, [32]
• Patterns, copying of, [311];
• invention of, [309];
• in New Guinea, [314];
• magic, [237]-[248]
• Perrot and Chipiez, [75];
• on lotus, [143];
• Phoenician art, [153], [154]
• Persian fylfot, [286], [298]
• Petrie, Flinders, Prof., [89], [221];
• on spiral symbols, [141];
• on rosettes, [148], [149];
• on the study of art, [336]
• Petroglyphs, [215]
• Phœnician art, [153], [154];
• commerce, [154];
• writing, [220]
• Phonograms, [216]-[218]
• Phyllomorphs, [130]-[164]
• (see Plant)
• Physicomorphs, [118]-[126]
• Pictographs, [204]-[218]
• Pictorial signs, [212]
• Picture-writing, [178]
• Pipe, Torres Straits, [13];
• Fly River, [19];
• Papuan Gulf, [40];
• burning of, in Central District, [42]
• Pitt-Rivers, General, [311]
• Plant Designs, Fly River, [28];
• Central District New Guinea, [45];
• totems, [253], [254];
• magic climbing, [244];
• money, [233], [234]
• (see Phyllomorphs)
• Polynesia, ethnology of, [69]
• “Polynesians” in New Guinea, [63]
• Pompeian designs, [193]
• Port Moresby pottery, [46]
• Posts, totem, [257], [265]
• Pottery, [97];
• biomorphic, [188]-[191];
• Cyprus, [137];
• New Guinea, [46]-[48], [62], [98];
• Nicobar, [100];
• Oceania, [97];
• Port Moresby, [46];
• Pueblo, [93], [100]-[102];
• Terramara, [91];
• Teste Island, [47], [48];
• West Pacific, [97]-[99];
• Zuñi, [103], [104], [105]-[107];
• trade, [47], [48]
• Powell, Major, his totem badge, [119]
• Prince of Wales’ feather, [156], [157]
• Prisse d’Avennes, [136], [138]-[141], [159]
• Psychology, [300]-[305], [333]
• Pueblo Pottery, [93], [100], [102]-[111]
• Pyung fruit pattern, [246]

• Quatrefages and Hamy, [63], [64]

• Rain-charm, Malacca, [246]
• Rain symbols, [119]-[122], [279]
• Rattan pattern, [248]
• Rau, C., on pottery, [109]
• Ray, S. H., [60], [71];
• on New Guinea languages, [64]
• Read, C. H., [271];
• on Polynesian art, [185]
• Rebus, [217], [218]
• Religion, definition of, [5], [267];
• evolution of, [268]
• Religion in art, [81]-[84], [118]-[123], [133], [235], [270]-[305]
• Réville, Albert, [279]
• Rhodes, lotus designs, [158], [161]
• Ridgeway, Prof. W., origin of money, [226]-[234]
• Rigo, district tattooing, [45]
• Robenhausen, baskets, [91]
• Rock tombs in Asia Minor, [114]-[116]
• Roman vase, [92]
• Rome, fylfot in, [283]
• Romilly, H. H., [79]
• Rosettes, [140], [148]-[150], [162], [163]
• Round Towers, Ireland, [90]

• Sabagorar, [76]
• Samian pottery, [160], [179]
• Sauvastika, [292]
• Scandinavian fylfot, [285];
• inroads, [90];
• magic, [249];
• mythology, [196];
• sun-snake, [194];
• worm-knot, [94]
• Scarification, [61];
• of totems, [252], [256]
• Schliemann, [142], [278], [280], [282], [287], [292]
• Scorpion in magic, [242], [243]
• Scroll designs, [49]-[56], [93], [163];
• guilloches, [49]-[51], [163];
• Cornwall, [179];
• from lotus, [139]-[142];
• New Guinea, [67]-[73], [326];
• New Zealand, [67], [68], [71], [72], [326];
• Fiji, [71];
• Malaysia, [67];
• from alligator, [171], [172];
• symbolism of, [122], [123]
• (see Spiral)
• Semang magic patterns, [237]-[248]
• Semitic writing, [220]
• Semper, Prof. G., [75], [158]
• Sergi, Prof., [60], [64]
• Shell-money, [224], [228]
• Shell pottery, [189], [191]
• Shield-money, [233]
• Shields, Papuan Gulf, [30]
• Sicily, Triskele of, [214]
• Sickness, magic patterns against, [237]-[245]
• Signature-lore, [235]
• Silphium plant-money, [233], [234]
• Silvestre, J., [227]
• Sinaugolo tattooing, [45]
• Sinnet in Oceania, [85]
• Sinnet, skeuomorphs of, [87], [88]
• Skeuomorphs, forms of, [75]-[117], [194]-[199]
• Skin disease, magic against, [244], [245]
• Smyth, Brough, [259], [261]
• Snake arrow, [25];
• designs, Australia, [260];
• patterns in Brazil, [174]-[178];
• Scandinavian Sun-, [194];
• totems, [251]-[253]
• Solomon Islands, [66];
• frigate bird, [66], [265], [267], [325];
• canoe charm, [266], [267]
• Soul, emblems of, [129], [141]
• South Cape axes, [79];
• ethnography of, [65], [66]
• Southesk, Earl of, [180], [195], [278]
• Spatula, lime, [48], [49], [52]-[54], [57]
• Spirals, [28], [49], [93], [94], [141], [163];
• early European art, [73];
• bird, [49]-[57];
• lotus, [139]-[142];
• on pottery, [111]
• (see Scroll)
• Squier and Davis on pottery, [100];
• gourd pottery, [188]
• Stag, Sun-, [194]
• Star-symbols, [288], [289], [291], [292]
• Stater, [198]
• Steinen, Prof. K. von den, [97], [130], [131], [173]-[179], [332]
• Stevens, Prof. G., [196]
• Stevens, H. V., [332];
• on magic patterns, [236];
• on totemism, [252], [254]
• Stokes, Dr. W., on colour symbols, [123]
• Stolpe, Dr. H., [9], [81], [185], [186], [270], [271], [334]
• Stone-axe, fastenings of, [85];
• metamorphosis of, [78]
• Suggestion, definition of, [5]
• Sun, animal symbols of, [136];
• boar, [195];
• stag, [194];
• snake, [194];
• symbols, [289]-[291];
• Triskele, [213]
• Svoronas, M. J., [291]
• Swiss lake-dwelling bronze vessel, [87]
• Swiss lake-dwelling huts, [89]
• Symbolism, [264];
• of colour, [123], [124];
• religious, [275]-[305];
• psychology of, [300]-[305];
• definition of, [212];
• Buddhist, [281];
• of earth, [280];
• of lightning, [276];
• of moon, [292];
• of rain, [279];
• of sun, [289]-[291];
• of water, [122];
• of wind, [122], [123], [279]
• Symmorph, [215]
• Sympathetic magic, [5], [6], [235]-[250]

• Tane, the adze-god, [82], [274]
• Tapa, [95], [96];
• printing on, [95], [96]
• Tau, [277]-[279]
• Tassel patterns, [144]-[148]
• Tattooing in Malacca, [253], [254];
• Maori, [72];
• Melanesian, [61];
• in New Guinea, [43]-[45];
• in Rigo, [45];
• and totemism, [252]-[256]
• Taylor, Dr. Isaac, [166], [167], [283];
• alphabet, [216], [218], [219]
• Taylor, [286]
• Tenedos axe money, [230], [232]
• Terramara pottery, [91]
• Teste Island canoe carving, [57];
• pottery of, [47], [48]
• Tetraskele (see Fylfot)
• Textiles, [89]
• Thebes Necropolis, tomb decorations, [136]-[141]
• Thibet svastika, [287], [294]
• Thomas, E. B., [280]
• Thompson, W. D’Arcy, [291];
• on animal symbols on Greek coins, [234]
• Thongs, absence of, in Oceania, [85]
• Thor’s hammer, [278];
• in modern Germany, [279]
• Tiki-tiki pattern, [271], [274]
• Toaripi, [29];
• belt, [38]
• Tonga clubs, [86]-[88], [192];
• drum, [83];
• frigate-bird on club, [88];
• pottery, [108]
• Tongue-thrusting in New Zealand, [186], [187]
• Torres Straits and Daudai, art of, [13]-[15];
• barter, [224], [225];
• totemism, [251], [252]
• Tortoise eggs, magic pattern, [246]
• Tortoise money, [232], [233]
• Totem animals, [17], [30], [212]
• Totemism, [41], [250];
• in ancient Greece, [265];
• in Malacca, [252]-[254];
• and tattooing, [252]-[256]
• Totem-posts, [257], [265];
• British Columbia, [265]
• Trade marks on pottery, [48]
• Triskele or Triquetra, [213], [214]
• Trobiand Group, art of, [58];
• houses, [61];
• trade of, [47];
• crocodile pattern, [181];
• spatulas of, [54]
• Troy (see Hissarlik), [289]
• Tsuboi, S., on tongue-thrusting, [187];
• on eye-amulets, [187]
• Tunny-fish as money, [230]-[232]
• Tusayan pottery, [111]-[114]
• Tylor, Prof. E. B., [109], [129], [223]

• Ueberlingen See, [95]
• Uhle, Dr. M., [28], [167];
• on plant motives, [131]
• Uluris dress pattern, [174]

• Vaux, Baron de, [99]
• Veth, R. J., on mandrake, [6]
• Volute, [157], [158], [160]
• Votive offerings, degeneration of, [222], [223]