The little pottery objects of Lake Chapala, Mexico
A 1897 scholarly monograph by anthropologist Frederick Starr, published by the University of Chicago Press, cataloguing small pottery objects excavated around Lake Chapala in Mexico for an academic audience of archaeologists and ethnologists. The plates are numbered line engravings of unglazed clay vessels and figurines shown from several angles, with the hatched shading tracing their rounded forms, rims, and perforations. A designer might take from them the pared-down hatching technique and the way simple clay forms read as bold silhouettes against the cream paper.
