Engraved woodblock of the "Arikara sign for lie or falsehood"
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: publisher
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
label: printer
content: Government Printing Office
label: author
content: Mallery, Garrick
label: block maker
content: V. W. & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This engraved woodblock of an “Arikara sign for a lie or falsehood” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published in 1881 as Figure 233 (p. 393) in an article by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) entitled “Sign Language Among the North American Indians” in the <I>First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1879-80.</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: 1980.0219.0340
label: accession number
content: 1980.0219
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0219.0340
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: 6.8 cm x 6.4 cm x 2.3 cm; 2 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 7/8 in