Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo woman weaving a belt"
Engraved woodblock of a "Navajo woman weaving a belt"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of “Navaho woman weaving a belt” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate XXXVI (p.384) 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
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- Matthews, Washington
- block maker
- A. P. J. & Co.
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 14.5 cm x 12.4 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 11/16 in x 4 7/8 in x 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1366
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1366
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- 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
