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  • Korean dragon jar
    Korean art
    / The formative period

    …the animals have a “life line” drawn from the mouth to the anus in the so-called X-ray style of Siberian rock art. A shaman, hunters, and a fisherman are also depicted.

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    …the animals have a “life line” drawn from the mouth to the anus in the so-called X-ray style of Siberian rock art. A shaman, hunters, and a fisherman are also depicted.

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  • Painting on bark of a monitor lizard in X-ray style by Baboa, from Arnhem Land, Australia; in the State Museum of Folklore, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
    X-ray style

    …is expressed by a “life line,” a single horizontal line that runs from the animal’s mouth to a dot representing the heart or stomach. Whether the depiction of an animal in the X-ray style had particular religious symbolism is not known.

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    …is expressed by a “life line,” a single horizontal line that runs from the animal’s mouth to a dot representing the heart or stomach. Whether the depiction of an animal in the X-ray style had particular religious symbolism is not known.

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