Engraved woodblock of an "Indian mask from the northwest coast of America"
Engraved woodblock of an "Indian mask from the northwest coast of America"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Indian mask from the northwest coast of America” was prepared by Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887) and the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1884 as Plate XIII.20 (p.171) in an article by William Healey Dall (1845-1927) entitled “On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs with an Inquiry into the Bearing of Their Geographical Distribution” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- date made
- 1884
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- Dall, William H.
- graphic artist
- Nichols, H. H.
- block maker
- N. J. Wemmer
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Associated Place
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.4 cm x 5.1 cm x 2 cm; 2 1/8 in x 2 in x 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0165
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0165
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- subject
- Native Americans
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Science & Mathematics
- Religion
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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