The Art of the English Trade Gun in North America
Nathan E. Bender
McFarland & Co Inc, 2018
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780786471157
- ISBN-10
- 0786471158
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Year
- 2018
- Publication date
- 2018-07-02
- Pages
- 179
- Dimensions
- 229x152x9
- Weight
- 227