This example is from an ancient work basket obtained at Ancon, Peru, and shown in Fig. 299. The surface features are in strong relief, giving a pronounced herring bone effect.
Fig. 299. Peruvian work basket of reeds, with strongly relieved ridges.[ToList]
Slight changes in the succession of parts enable the workman to produce a great variety of decorative patterns, an example of which is shown in Fig. 298. A good illustration is also seen in Fig. 286, and another piece, said to be of Seminole workmanship, is given in Fig. 300. These and similar relieved results are fruitful sources of primitive decorative motives. They are employed not only within the art itself, but in many other arts less liberally supplied with suggestions of embellishment.
Fig. 300. Effects produced by varying the order of intersection. Seminole work—1/8.[ToList]
Taking a second type of combination, we have a family of resultant patterns in the main distinguishable from the preceding.