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The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry

Note 318 — Chapter XVI · THE ORIGINS OF SELF-DECORATION

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Elworthy, The Evil Eye, pp. 16, 148-154; Schurtz, in Archiv für Anthropologie, xxii. p. 60 (Amulette und Zaubermittel); Svoboda, Geschichte der Ideale, i. pp. 294-296, on obscene amulets in classical art. It may be remarked that ithyphallic talismans are especially numerous in and about New Guinea. Cf. Schmeltz in De Clercq, Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea, p. 244.

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