We might say “no home, no art,” for where the climate is kind enough to allow people to exist without shelterwe find but little art, as in the case of the Australian black fellow, who puts up a screen of brushwood to windward, having no more idea of home than that. Where the weather necessitates more shelter, if only a cave or a tent, the arts start into life. The wigwam is a surface on which charms and deities can be painted. Pottery and weaving appear, and with them the decorative element we call ornament
from ART IN THE LIFE OF MANKIND by PROFESSOR ALLEN W. SEABY
