The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... house entrances . Similar boards were used to create whole facades by neighbouring tribes . Some tribes used the trian- gular motif in conjunction with an S - shaped double - spiral design on tobacco pipes , hand drums , and bark ...
... house entrances . Similar boards were used to create whole facades by neighbouring tribes . Some tribes used the trian- gular motif in conjunction with an S - shaped double - spiral design on tobacco pipes , hand drums , and bark ...
Page 118
Figure 21 : Cult house with malanggans . The house is made of wood , bamboo , small palm leaves , and croton leaves . The figures are carved in wood and painted with earth pigments and yellow oil colour . The house was erected to ...
Figure 21 : Cult house with malanggans . The house is made of wood , bamboo , small palm leaves , and croton leaves . The figures are carved in wood and painted with earth pigments and yellow oil colour . The house was erected to ...
Page 259
... house itself was built on a kind of a step running across the rear of the platform . Composed of a lashed and fitted wooden framework and with a thatched roof , the typical house was open all the way across the front and had square ends ...
... house itself was built on a kind of a step running across the rear of the platform . Composed of a lashed and fitted wooden framework and with a thatched roof , the typical house was open all the way across the front and had square ends ...
Contents
NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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