Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
This is an 1895 government report from the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, printed in Washington for Congress and the Smithsonian Secretary. Its plates are line drawings of face-painting designs in red and grey on front and profile heads, with one photographic plate of two figures in feathered and fringed regalia. A designer could take the grid and dot patterns as ready-made linear motifs for contemporary graphics.
