Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Mallery, Garrick
- block maker
- V. W. & Co.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Arikara sign for a lie or falsehood” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1881 as Figure 233 (p. 393) in an article by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) entitled “Sign Language Among the North American Indians” in the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1879-80.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1881
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0340
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0340
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.8 cm x 6.4 cm x 2.3 cm; 2 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York City
- 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
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_749332
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-9bf1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
