Object Details
- publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- author
- Royce, Charles C.
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of the “Earliest map showing [the] location of the Cherokees, 1597” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate VII (p.128) in an article by Charles Royce (1845-1923) entitled “The Cherokee Nation of Indians: a narrative of their official relations with the colonial and federal governments” in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1883-84.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1887
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1531
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1531
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- map
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 15.1 cm x 19 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 15/16 in x 7 1/2 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
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_750522
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-b079-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
