Engraved woodblock of the "Signal for 'buffalo discovered'"
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: publisher
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
label: printer
content: Government Printing Office
label: maker
content: Nichols, H. H.
label: author
content: Mallery, Garrick
notes: label: Description
content: This engraved woodblock of “Signal for ‘buffalo discovered’” was prepared by Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887) and the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 337 on page 532 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, Washington
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: 1980.0219.1523
label: accession number
content: 1980.0219
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0219.1523
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: 10 cm x 17.6 cm x 2.3 cm; 3 15/16 in x 6 15/16 in x 7/8 in