Prehistoric objects from a shell-heap at Erin bay, Trinidad
A 1914 archaeological report by Jesse Walter Fewkes, printed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, describing prehistoric objects excavated from a shell midden at Erin Bay, Trinidad, written for scientific and museum readers. Its pictures are engraved plates of carved stone or clay zoomorphic objects, lettered a to d, drawn in stippled shading with simple contours against a cream ground, showing sculpted animal heads with bulging eyes, snouts and ears in profile. A designer might take the hatched stipple shading and the sculptural simplification of animal forms as reference for organic, folk-style motifs.
