Description
Appearing on ceramics, bronze reliefs, funeral urns, battle dress, leather bags, jars, ponchos, and other actual art and artifacts, the patterns exhibit a wealth of animal and totemic designs—including serpents, birds, and felines. Other designs feature geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, repeating patterns, natural forms, and lots of other styles. Encompassing all kinds of styles and sizes, these designs display atypical invention and imagination: some distance from being primitive, they display a sophisticated working out of artistic abstraction and methods of constructing bold, eye-catching forms.
Artists and craftspeople will find here a nearly inexhaustible source of copyright-free graphics with the intention to add a distinctive South American Indian flavor to textile and wallpaper design, book and magazine illustration, fabric design, and a host of other artistic and craft projects.