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Pre-Columbian Designs from Panama
The inhabitants of Cocle province on the southern coast of Panama created imaginatively decorative ceremonial bowls, adorned with countless powerful and sophisticated versions of motifs popular among native civilizations. This collection includes 591 of these beautifully stylized images, including gods, men, birds, fish, monkeys, florals, abstracts — all in the beautiful Cocle style.
108 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1976
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August 8, 2017
This is one of my favorites in the fine Dover Pictorial Archives series. As in almost all of these books, this is a selection of illustrations from out-of-copyright archaeological reports, in this case by Dr. Lothrop, who studied the Cocle' culture for Harvard's Peabody Museum from 1930 to 1933.
If you are reading this, you are likely a fan of prehistoric pottery, and familiar with the frustrations of skimming old, dull archaeological reports to get to the Good Parts -- the photos/drawings of all the cool stuff they dug up. Dover has conveniently done this for you, and reprinted these images on good-quality paper, at a reasonable price, and kept the book in print for decades (this book was first published in 1976). Good old Dover!
The only real drawback to this (and similar) books is that the images are all black and white, a definite loss for these colorful pots.
If you are reading this, you are likely a fan of prehistoric pottery, and familiar with the frustrations of skimming old, dull archaeological reports to get to the Good Parts -- the photos/drawings of all the cool stuff they dug up. Dover has conveniently done this for you, and reprinted these images on good-quality paper, at a reasonable price, and kept the book in print for decades (this book was first published in 1976). Good old Dover!
The only real drawback to this (and similar) books is that the images are all black and white, a definite loss for these colorful pots.
Displaying 1 of 1 review