Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Dall, William H.
- original artist
- Morgan, L. H.
- block maker
- A. P. J. & Co.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois Mask" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Plate XXII.49 (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 was “used by the order of ‘Falsefaces’.” Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was the original artist.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1884
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.0437
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.0437
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.6 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm; 3 3/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/16 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
- Religion
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_749429
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-99b2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
