Anthropology design series.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Field Museum of Natural History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament.

Genre:

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

Irregular

Began with: No. 1 (1924).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1924-1931.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Biodiversity Heritage Library Digital Imaging Specifications. http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Digital+Imaging+Specifications

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Master and use copy.

Summary:

"With this issue Field Museum of Natural History inaugurates a new series of publications calculated to render accessible in convenient form primitive and oriental designs from material in the Museum collections ... The series will mainly consist of collections of designs accompanied by one or two pages of explanatory text, but without scientific discussion."--No. 1, title page.

Contents:

No. 1. Block prints from India for textiles / by Albert Buell Lewis.

No. 2. Javanese batik designs from metal scraps / by Albert Buell Lewis.

No. 3. Chinese baskets / by Berthold Laufer.

No. 4. Decorative art of New Guinea : incised designs / by Albert Buell Lewis.

No. 5. Carved and painted designs from New Guinea / by Albert Buell Lewis.

Notes:

Description based on: No. 1 (1924); title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed Aug. 13, 2021).

Latest issue consulted: No. 5 (1931) (JSTOR, viewed Aug. 13, 2021).

OCLC:

609336426