Object Details
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of “Eskimo child’s clothing” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 512 (p.557) in an article by Franz Boas (1858-1942) entitled “The Central Eskimo” in the Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian,1884-85.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Boas, Franz
- date made
- 1888
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.7 cm x 4.3 cm x 2.2 cm; 3 7/16 in x 1 11/16 in x 7/8 in
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
