Cultures & Communities - Overview
Furniture, cooking wares, clothing, works of art, and many other kinds of artifacts are part of what knit people into communities and cultures. The Museum’s collections feature artifacts from European Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, African Americans, Gypsies, Jews, and Christians, both Catholics and Protestants. The objects range from ceramic face jugs made by enslaved African Americans in South Carolina to graduation robes and wedding gowns. The holdings also include artifacts associated with education, such as teaching equipment, textbooks, and two complete schoolrooms. Uniforms, insignia, and other objects represent a wide variety of civic and voluntary organizations, including youth and fraternal groups, scouting, police forces, and firefighters.
"Cultures & Communities - Overview" showing 73 items.
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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
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Stevenson, James
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0280
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0280
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a "Woman pounding acorns"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Woman pounding acorns” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1877 as Figure 42 (p.420) in an article by Stephen Powers (1840-1904) entitled “Tribes of California” in Contributions to North American Ethnology v.3. Contributions was published by the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey, a precursor to the Bureau of American Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1877
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Powers, Stephen
- original artist
- Chase, A. W.
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0288
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0288
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of the "Arikara sign for lie or falsehood"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Arikara sign for a lie or falsehood” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1881 as Figure 233 (p. 393) in an article by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) entitled “Sign Language Among the North American Indians” in the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1879-80.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1881
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Mallery, Garrick
- block maker
- V. W. & Co.
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0340
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0340
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of "Captain John, a Ni'-shi-nam chief"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of “Captain John, a Ni’-shi-nam chief” was prepared by engraver Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887) and the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1877 as Figure 27 (p.314) in an article by Stephen Powers (1840-1904) entitled “Tribes of California” in Contributions to North American Ethnology v.3. Contributions was published by the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey, a precursor to the Bureau of American Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902). D. H. Bartle created the original image.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1877
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- graphic artist
- Nichols, H. H.
- author
- Powers, Stephen
- original artist
- Bartle, D. H.
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0350
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0350
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of an "Eskimo approaching seal"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock, after a photograph, of an “Eskimo approaching seal” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Figure 412 (p.484) in an article by Franz Boas (1858-1942) entitled “The Central Eskimo” in the Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1884-85.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1888
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Boas, Franz
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0368
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0368
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a "Cochiti water vessel"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Cochiti Water Vessel” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1883 as Figure 638 (p.408) 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
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Stevenson, James
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0375
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0375
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a" Mai'-du girl, with ornaments"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Mai’-du girl with ornaments” was engraved by Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887); the print was published in 1877 by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. as Figure 26 (p.304) in “Tribes of California” by Stephen Powers (1840-1904) for Contributions to North American Ethnology v.3. Contributions was published by the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey, which was a precursor to the Bureau of American Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1877
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- graphic artist
- Nichols, H. H.
- author
- Powers, Stephen
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0382
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0382
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a "Cochiti water vessel"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Cochiti water vessel” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Figure 637 (p.402) in “Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879” by James Stevenson (1840-1888), in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1880-81.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Stevenson, James
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0384
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0384
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo blanket"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of "Navaho blanket" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Figure 52 (p.387) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “Navajo Weavers” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1884
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- author
- Matthews, Washington
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0421
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0421
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo Indian with silver ornaments"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of “Navajo Indian with silver ornaments" was prepared, after a photograph, by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Plate XX (p. 178) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “Navajo Silversmiths” in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1880-81.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Matthews, Washington
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0442
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0442
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center