The Art of the English Trade Gun in North America

ISBN-13: 9780786471157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 179 str.

Nathan E. Bender

Opis

Designing symbolic meaning into ornamentation is a long-standing Western artistic tradition, a practice deeply rooted in classical Greek and Roman art. This volume directly addresses the question of why particular ornamental patterns of known symbolic significance were chosen by eighteenth century English gunmakers for Native American trade guns.