Engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois mask"
date: label: date made
content: 1884
name: label: publisher
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
label: printer
content: Government Printing Office
label: author
content: Dall, William H.
label: original artist
content: Morgan, L. H.
label: block maker
content: A. P. J. & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois Mask" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Plate XXII.49 (p. 189) in an article by William Healey Dall (1845-1927) entitled “On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs with an Inquiry into the Bearing of Their Geographical Distribution” in the <I>Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82.</I> According to the annual report, the mask was “used by the order of ‘Falsefaces’.” Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was the original artist.
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: Religion
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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: 1980.0219.0437
label: accession number
content: 1980.0219
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0219.0437
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: 8.6 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm; 3 3/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/16 in