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Excerpt from Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 7: The Decorative Art of the Amur Tribes What is necessary, first of all, to sift out, is the ornamental art of the Man chu, and those Chinese peoples in the northern part of the Celestial Kingdom bordering on Siberia. The source from which the Amur peoples have drawn may be discovered there. After all, it is clearly too intricate a problem, thus far, to distinguish accurately between what of their art the Amur tribes owe to their masters, and what to themselves. A great many features should be attributed to direct Chinese transmission. On the whole, therefore, the standpoint to be taken, in a consideration of the decorative art of these tribes, must for the present be one that looks upon it as an independent branch of East Asiatic art, which sprang from the sino-japanese cultural centre. The exact historical posi tion of this domain of art in the grand framework of this culture has yet to be ascertained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.