Engraved woodblock of a "Cochiti water vessel"
Engraved woodblock of a "Cochiti water vessel"
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- 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
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- date made
- 1883
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- Stevenson, James
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.7 cm x 6.4 cm x 2.3 cm; 2 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0375
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0375
- subject
- Native Americans
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Science & Mathematics
- 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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