fret-like

Updated: May 5, 2025

The curious device that in the other example appeared near the left eye here occurs on both sides. The lower part of the face is elaborately engraved. Three lines cross the upper lip and cheeks, reaching to the ear; a band of fret-like devices extends across the mouth to the base of the ears, and another band filled in with oblique reticulated lines passes around the chin and along the jaws.

William Henry Holmes - Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436

Two strongly marked, fret-like meanders encircle the vessel, the elements of which are ruled exclusively by the warp and woof, by the radiate and the concentric lines of construction. This is the work of the Pima Indians of Arizona. Coiled basket with geometric ornament composed of triangular figures.

William Henry Holmes - A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages: 189-252)