Hunting charms of the Montagnais and the Mistassini
A 1921 monograph published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, written by anthropologist Frank Speck with George Heye, documenting hunting charms of the Montagnais and Mistassini peoples for an academic and museum readership. The pictures are plain photographs of objects against a pale ground, showing charm bundles with dark cloth or leather wrappings, ribbon-like streamers, and braided cord with tied knots, with no decoration beyond faint incised marks; a designer might take their sparse, object-centred layout and tonal contrast of dark forms on cream.
