Object Details
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “Haida totem post” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 24 (p.68) in an article by Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) entitled “Pictographs of the North American Indians: a preliminary paper” in the Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1882-83.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Mallery, Garrick
- block maker
- J. J. & Co.
- date made
- 1886
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 cm x 11.2 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 7/16 in x 7/8 in
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
