Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo blanket"
Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo blanket"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a "Navajo blanket" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 53 (p.387) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “Navajo Weavers” 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
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- block maker
- W. T. & B.
- Matthews, Washington
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.8 cm x 6.6 cm x 2.4 cm; 3 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1180
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1180
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- subject
- Native Americans
- See more items in
- 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
