Engraved woodblock titled "Shell Gorget - The Cross"
date: label: date made
content: 1883
name: label: printer
content: Government Printing Office
label: publisher
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
label: author
content: Holmes, William Henry
notes: label: Description
content: This engraved woodblock of “Shell Gorgets – the Cross” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1883 as Plate LI.1 (p.268) in an article by William H. Holmes (1846-1933) entitled “Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans” in the <I>Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1880-81.</I>
label: Description
content: A gorget is a piece of shell that has been engraved and perforated so that it can be worn as a pendant; in this case, it has been engraved with a cross insignia. The caption beneath the image reveals that the gorget was found in Union County, Illinois.
label: Description
content: In a footnote to his article, Holmes identifies “Kate C. Osgood” as an accompanying artist on his collecting expedition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Native Americans
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0219.0080
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0219.0080
label: accession number
content: 1980.0219
objectType: label: Object Name
content: block
label: Object Type
content: Wood Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: engraving (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.9 cm x 8.8 cm x 2.3 cm; 3 1/2 in x 3 7/16 in x 7/8 in