...The cicatrices aresometimes tribal marks, but sometimes decorative... 
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Long, heavy ovals of ivory, grooved to accommodate the flesh loop, very finely etched in decorative designs, are occasionally worn as "stretchers...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...“Poor soul,” thought the girl, “here is the decorative instinct untrammeled by imitation...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...Only the tiny hummingbird,who also uses lichen as a protective and decorative device, concealsher nest so successfully...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Bird-biographies are always in our bookcases; and the bird-form meets our sight everywhere in decorative art Eastern and Western; for its aerial beauty is without ...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...A simple method of mounting turtles, thatwill be found satisfactory for decorative work,is clearly shown in Figs...
Leon Luther Pray 「Taxidermy」
...These would doubtless beregarded as highly decorative additions...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...It seems to me that the existence ofthis decorative hiatus points to a rather small inherent sense of design in the Mafulu mind...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...They aremade of fine fibres of different colours, cleverly nettedin ornamental patterns, and they show the best attemptat decorative art that we saw in the country...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...The extension of the snout is withouthomologue elsewhere in Hopi pictography, and, while decorative inpart, is likewise highly conventionalized...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...This figure is so constant that itmust have had a symbolic as well as a decorative meaning...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...With reference to the origin of these animal sculptures many writersappear inclined to the view that they are purely decorative andornamental in character, i...
Henry W. Henshaw 「Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley」
...Thus stone, clay, wood, bone, and copper,although they readily borrow from nature and from each other,necessarily show different decorative results...
William Henry Holmes 「Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art.」
...Hartt advanced the additional idea, that in unison withthe general course of nature decorative forms began with simpleelements and developed by systematic methods to complex forms...
William Henry Holmes 「Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art.」
...They vary in their decorative designs, but areseldom as elaborate or beautiful as the vases...
James Stevenson 「Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained」
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