FIG. 55A TO H. CROCODILE DESIGNS.

The pattern _G_ is given as the next step in the conventionalization.

Here the legs, feet, and "something eaten" have assumed undue

proportions, while nearly every trace of likeness has vanished. This

figure is multiplied five times to obtain the highly conventionalized

form shown in _H_.

By referring to _G_ it is possible to see how the complicated designs in

_I_ and _J_ have been derived, although they bear little resemblance to

the original crocodile form.

Fig. 56 was identified as a crocodile but was not regarded as a step in

the conventionalization shown. Many other figures such as 57 appear so

closely related to the designs just described that it seems certain they

must have had a common origin, yet this was denied by all the weavers,

who insisted that such decorations were added only to make the garments

pretty.

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