Über Tierornamente auf Thongefässen aus Alt-Mexico
An 1899 Berlin study by ethnologist Hermann Strebel on animal ornament painted on ancient Mexican pottery, published by W. Spemann for scholars and museum readers. The plates are numbered black-and-white drawings and photographs of sherds and bowl fragments showing stylised birds, serpents and feline heads in bands and panels. A designer could draw on their dense, interlocking motifs, stepped fret borders and figures fitted to curved vessel surfaces.
