Engraved woodblock of a "Vase with animal heads"
date: label: date made
content: 1888
name: label: publisher
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
label: printer
content: Government Printing Office
label: author
content: Holmes, William Henry
notes: label: Description
content: This engraved woodblock of a “Vase with animal heads” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 137 (p.96) in an article by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) entitled “Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia” in the <I>Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1884-85.</I>
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: 1980.0219.0896
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0219.0896
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: 4.3 cm x 6 cm x 2 cm; 1 11/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 13/16 in