Kultur und Industrie südamerikanischer Völker : nach dem im Besitze des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig befindlichen Sammlungen : [volume 2] / von A. Stübel, W. Reiss und B. Koppel ; Text und Beschreibung der Tafeln von Max Uhle

Uhle, Max, 1856-1944 · 1889 · Berlin : A. Asher, · 23 pictures

A two-volume ethnographic study of South American Indigenous culture and craft, compiled by A. Stübel, W. Reiss and B. Koppel from collections held at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig, with text by Max Uhle and published in Berlin in 1889 for scholars and museum readers. The plates show woven sashes and belts in red, cream and blue with geometric and animal motifs, alongside wooden combs, bowls, a stool, a whip and a brush. A designer could take the banded stripes, stepped diamonds and small repeating border patterns from the textiles as ready-made textile and pattern references.

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

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