Object Details
publisher
Bureau of American Ethnology
printer
Government Printing Office
author
Dall, William H.
original artist
Morgan, L. H.
block maker
A. P. J. & Co.
Description
This engraved woodblock of an "Iroquois Mask" was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the print was published as Plate XXII.49 (p. 189) in an article by William Healey Dall (1845-1927) entitled “On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs with an Inquiry into the Bearing of Their Geographical Distribution” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82. According to the annual report, the mask was “used by the order of ‘Falsefaces’.” Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was the original artist.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1884
ID Number
1980.0219.0437
accession number
1980.0219
catalog number
1980.0219.0437
Object Name
block
Object Type
Wood Engraving
Physical Description
wood (overall material)
engraving (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
overall: 8.6 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm; 3 3/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/16 in
place made
United States: District of Columbia
Associated Place
United States: New York, New York City
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Native Americans
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_749429