Kultur und Industrie südamerikanischer Völker : nach dem im Besitze des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig befindlichen Sammlungen : [volume 1] / von A. Stübel, W. Reiss und B. Koppel ; Text und Beschreibung der Tafeln von Max Uhle

Uhle, Max, 1856-1944 · 1889 · Berlin : A. Asher, · 42 pictures

A late nineteenth-century German ethnographic folio on South American peoples' culture and industry, written by Max Uhle with plates drawn from the Leipzig Museum für Völkerkunde collections and published in Berlin in 1889. The painted plates show ancient pottery vessels in watercolour, with modelled faces, handles and surface relief. A designer could draw on their earthy red and buff palette and the strong, simplified vessel silhouettes for ceramic-inspired pattern or packaging.

South America -- Antiquities · Indians of South America · Indian art -- South America

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