Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Dall, William H.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Haida medicine rattle” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate XXII.50 (p.189) 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. According to the annual report, the mask shows “the shaman, frog, and kingfisher with continuous tongues.” The image was drawn from a “specimen obtained by J. G. Swan [(1818-1900)] at Port Townsend, W. T. from a Queen Charlotte Island Haida.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1884
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1294
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1294
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 5.2 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 1/2 in x 2 1/16 in x 7/8 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
- Music
- Record ID
- nmah_750285
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-96b3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
