Bulletin
This is a government bulletin issued in 1901 in Washington by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, a scientific series for specialists in ethnology. The plates show archaeological finds: stone flakes and tools, pottery sherds, and worked bone and antler pieces, photographed in grey tones and numbered with letters or figures for reference. A designer might take their clean, evenly lit object grids and numbered labels as a model for specimen layouts and catalogue plates.
