Object Details
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Tobacco Pipe” was engraved, printed, and published in 1877 by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. as part of Figure 43 (p.426) in “Tribes of California” by Stephen Powers (1840-1904), an article in the Contributions to North American Ethnology v.3. Contributions was published by the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey, a precursor to the Bureau of American Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- maker
- Chase, A. W.
- author
- Powers, Stephen
- date made
- 1877
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.6 cm x 11.2 cm x 2.4 cm; 5/8 in x 4 7/16 in x 15/16 in
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
