overall: 18.2 cm x 11.6 cm x 2.3 cm; 7 3/16 in x 4 9/16 in x 7/8 in
Object Name:
block
Object Type:
Wood Engraving
Place made:
United States: District of Columbia, Washington
Date made:
1881
Description:
This engraved woodblock of the “Parsee Towers of Silence (interior).” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 3 on page 104 in an article by H.C. Yarrow (1871-1876) entitled “Mortuary Customs of North American Indians” in the <I>First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1879-80.</I> Henry Hobart Nichols (1838-1887) engraved the image.