Engraved woodblock of a "Zuni eating bowl"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Zuni eating bowl” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Figure 426 (p.357) in an article by James Stevenson (1840-1888) entitled “Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879” in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1880-81.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Stevenson, James
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.4 cm x 8.5 cm x 2.4 cm; 2 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 15/16 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0280
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0280
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- subject
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Science & Mathematics
- Native Americans
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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