Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Mallery, Garrick
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Australian grave and carved trees” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 37 (p.76) in an article by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) entitled “Pictographs of the North American Indians: a preliminary paper” in the Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1882-83.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1886
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1206
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1206
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.7 cm x 11.1 cm x 2.3 cm; 2 5/8 in x 4 3/8 in x 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- 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
- Natural Resources
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_750198
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-a4e1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
