Engraved celts from the Antilles
A 1915 monograph by Jesse Walter Fewkes, published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, for specialist archaeologists studying Indigenous Caribbean artefacts. The three pictures are finely hatched line engravings of carved stone celts, one showing a face with a helmet-like cap and another a face with large round eyes and an open mouth on an elongated form. A designer might take the dense stippled hatching and the tapering, cone-like silhouettes as models for textured, archaic sculptural forms.
