Bulletin
A Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin published in Washington by the Government Printing Office in 1901, issued by the Smithsonian Institution for a scholarly audience of ethnologists. Its plates are rotated scans of sketches and engravings of Native American subjects, including a fort plan labelled Prisoner au Cadre and two portrait busts of named individuals. A designer might take from them the spare, hatched linework of early North American ethnographic drawing and the arrangement of figures on flat ground.
