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Interpretations of Primitive American Decorative Art

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MY friend Mr. G. C. Robson, the gifted malacologist of the British Museum (Natural History), has taken me to task in NATURE of September 13 over the interpretation of the Mayan sculptures which I ventured to make in the issue of August 2. Writing as a zoologist he has censured my communication more leniently than I should have done were I criticising it from the same point of view.

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FORBES, H. Interpretations of Primitive American Decorative Art. Nature 114, 716–717 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114716a0

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