Object Details
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Vase of unusual shape” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 211 (p.144) in an article by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) entitled “Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia” 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
- Holmes, William Henry
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- date made
- 1888
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.2 cm x 8.5 cm x 2.3 cm; 2 7/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 7/8 in
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
