Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Dall, William H.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Aleut dancing or mortuary mask” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1884 as Plate XXVIII.71 (p.201) 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1884
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0164
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0164
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/16 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- 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
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_749157
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-6ea3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
