Polychrome guanaco cloaks of Patagonia
A 1929 monograph by archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York, documenting painted guanaco-hide cloaks of the Tehuelche people of Patagonia. The plates show the cloaks' painted designs: a lattice-like frame pattern and a stepped zigzag border on the first, and on the second a panel of stick-figure scenes with hunters and animals. Designers can take from them the geometric repeat of stepped, diamond and chevron motifs, drawn in simple line and hatching.
