Engraved woodblock of a "Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow"
Engraved woodblock of a "Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock for “Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Figure 54 (p.434) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “The Mountain Chant: a Navajo ceremony” in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1883-84.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1887
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- block maker
- A. P. J. & Co.
- author
- Matthews, Washington
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.3 cm x 5.2 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 1/4 in x 2 1/16 in x 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0438
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0438
- subject
- Native Americans
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: 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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