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A survey of ancient Peruvian art

Means, Philip Ainsworth, 1892-1944 · 1917 · New Haven, Conn., Yele university press · 19 pictures

A survey of ancient Peruvian art by Philip Ainsworth Means, published by Yale University Press in New Haven in 1917, aimed at scholars and collectors of pre-Columbian Andean material. Its plates show painted ceramic vessels with stirrup handles and textiles with stepped, fret and geometric patterns, with figures in a clear, structured layout a designer could draw on for graphic motifs.

Art -- Peru · Peru -- Antiquities

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