The antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador; final report
An archaeological report by Marshall H. Saville, published in New York in 1910, documenting antiquities excavated in Manabí, Ecuador, for scholars of pre-Columbian material culture. The plates show carved stone and clay objects photographed or drawn in halftone: a sculpted stone form, a face-shaped vessel with incised features, a carved relief fragment with stepped and scroll motifs, and a sculpted head with a flat-topped body. A designer could draw on the simplified, weathered human faces and the geometric stepped relief patterns for ancient or indigenous-inspired graphics.
