A basket-maker cave in Kane County, Utah
A 1922 monograph published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, written by Jesse Nusbaum, Alfred Kidder and Samuel Guernsey, documenting an archaeological excavation of a basket-maker cave in Kane County, Utah. The four photographs are dim black-and-white views of cave interiors, showing eroded sandstone walls, rock shelves and debris in the excavated pits, with the grain and texture of the rock dominating each frame. A designer might draw on their raw, weathered textures and shadowed hollows as references for ancient ruins, earthy surfaces or archaeological mood.
