Indian notes and monographs
Indian Notes and Monographs is a 1919 series issued in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, aimed at scholars of North American Indigenous material culture. The three plates show a carved wooden figure, the Kentucky image, photographed from front, side and back against plain backgrounds. A designer could take from them the weathered, adzed texture of the wood and the stiff, simplified human silhouette with its flat arms and blocky base.
