Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia
A 1928 ethnology monograph by Frank Speck, published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, on the Powhatan peoples of Virginia, written for scholars and museum readers. The sepia plates are photographs of archaeological finds: a rotated landscape photo of a wooded path with figures, weathered stone objects, a stone with a cord wrapped around it, and carved or perforated stone and bone tools laid out against a cream ground. A designer might take their earthy tones, rough textures and plain catalogue layout as a model for natural-history plates.
