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time with a cheer.
Nigerians studying at American universities are
sometimes asked to identify spatial relations. Confronted with
objects in sunshine, they are often unable to indicate in which
direction shadows will fall, for this involves casting into three-
dimensional perspective. Thus sun, objects, and observer are
experienced separately and regarded as independent of one
another. For medieval man, as for the native, space was not
homogeneous and did not contain objects. Each thing made its
own space, as it still does for the native (and equally for the
modern physicist). Of course this does not mean that native
artists do not relate things. They often contrive the most
complicated, sophisticated configurations. Neither artist nor
observer has the slightest trouble recognizing and interpreting
the pattern, but only when it is a traditional one. If you begin to