Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- graphic artist
- Nichols, H. H.
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Stevenson, James
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Moki method of dressing hair” was prepared, after a photograph, by Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887) and the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate XLIII (p.583) in an article by James Stevenson (1840-1888) entitled “Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuni, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1884
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1879
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1879
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.2 cm x 13.3 cm x 2.3 cm; 6 3/4 in x 5 1/4 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
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_750870
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-8d2b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
