Notes and queries on anthropology
Notes and Queries on Anthropology is a field-guide style handbook issued in 1892 in London by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, intended for travellers and collectors recording observations of peoples and objects. Its plates are plain line engravings of measuring instruments, stone implements, and tabulated dot patterns, drawn with clean outlines, hatched cross-sections, and labelled figure numbers. A designer could draw on their diagrammatic clarity, the contrast of solid black silhouettes against blank cream fields, and the schematic grid layouts.
