Object Details
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a "Navajo blanket" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 53 (p.387) in an article by Dr. Washington Matthews (1843-1905) entitled “Navajo Weavers” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- block maker
- W. T. & B.
- author
- Matthews, Washington
- date made
- 1884
- Physical Description
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.8 cm x 6.6 cm x 2.4 cm; 3 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 15/16 in
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
