Report upon the Indian tribes
A government survey report on Indian tribes of the American Southwest, written by Amiel Weeks Whipple and published in Washington in 1855 for official use. Its plates show tribal dwellings, figures and costume, and Zuni town scenes, drawn in plain engraved lines with captions naming each place. A designer might take from them the flat, documentary style of mid-nineteenth-century survey illustration, with its profile portraits, adobe and log structures, and ruled plate frames.
