Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- author
- Matthews, Washington
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of the “Workshop of a Navajo Silversmith” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate XVII (p.175) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “Navajo Silversmiths” in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1880-81.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1883
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1428
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1428
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.5 cm x 18.6 cm x 2.3 cm; 4 15/16 in x 7 5/16 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_750419
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-a2ba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
