Lapponia, id est, regionis Lapponum... descriptio
Lapponia, a 1673 Latin description of the Lapland region and its Sami people by the Swedish scholar Johannes Gerhard Scheffer, written for learned European readers. Its woodcuts show Sami drums with painted symbols, a man and woman in traditional dress, and a sled-like wooden object, all rendered in dense crosshatched line that suggests ethnographic specimen drawings a designer could borrow for pattern or texture.
