Object Details
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Mallery, Garrick
- block maker
- Grottenthaler, V.
- Description
- This engraved woodblock shows hand signs for the letters "S" through "Y." The illustration was used in a publication relating to the gesture-signs and signals of the North American Indians by Garrick Mallery; it was prepared and printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. for the Bureau of American Ethnology in about 1880.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1880
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1368
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1368
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.9 cm x 10.2 cm x 2.3 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 in x 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Associated Place
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 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_750359
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-89d0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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