Engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois mask"
Engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois mask"
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- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois Mask" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Plate XXII.49 (p. 189) 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. According to the annual report, the mask was “used by the order of ‘Falsefaces’.” Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was the original artist.
- 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.
- original artist
- Morgan, L. H.
- block maker
- A. P. J. & Co.
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.6 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm; 3 3/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0437
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0437
- subject
- Native Americans
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Science & Mathematics
- Religion
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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