Electrotype of "Toshkachito holds a Choctow blowgun in shooting position"
Electrotype of "Toshkachito holds a Choctow blowgun in shooting position"
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- Description
- This electrotype of “Toshkachito holds a Choctow blowgun in shooting position” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 20 (p.37) in an article by David I. Bushnell, Jr. (1875-1941) entitled “The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana” in Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 48, (1909).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- electrotype
- Object Type
- Electrotype
- date made
- 1909
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- Bushnell, Jr., David I.
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.3 cm x 17.2 cm x 2.3 cm; 4 7/16 in x 6 3/4 in x 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.091
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.091
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- subject
- Native Americans
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Science & Mathematics
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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