Object Details
publisher
Government Printing Office
Bureau of American Ethnology
printer
U.S. Government Printing Office
author
Royce, Charles C.
block maker
J. J. & Co.
Description
This engraved woodblock of the “Earliest map showing [the] location of the Cherokees, 1597” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate VII (p.128) in an article by Charles Royce (1845-1923) entitled “The Cherokee Nation of Indians: a narrative of their official relations with the colonial and federal governments” in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1883-84.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1887
ID Number
1980.0219.1531
catalog number
1980.0219.1531
accession number
1980.0219
Object Name
block
map
Object Type
Wood Engraving
Physical Description
wood (overall material)
engraving (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
overall: 15.1 cm x 19 cm x 2.3 cm; 5 15/16 in x 7 1/2 in x 7/8 in
place made
United States: District of Columbia, Washington
Associated Place
United States: New York, New York City
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Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
Science & Mathematics
Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
Art
Measuring & Mapping
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Native Americans
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_750522