Henry Bascom Collins photograph collection relating to Pueblo Bonito, Mississippi Choctaws, and Alaska
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 82-23
name: label: Collector
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Photographer
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Names
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Names
content: Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
label: Photographer
content: Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974
label: Photographer
content: Havens, O. C.
label: Names
content: Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976
label: Names
content: Knoblock, Hermes
label: Names
content: Silook, Paul Eskimo
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Alaska
label: Place
content: Mississippi
label: Place
content: Pueblo Bonito Site (N.M.)
topic: label: Topic
content: anthropometry
label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Collector
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Photographer
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
culture: label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Choctaw
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Henry B. Collins (1899-1987) began his career in anthropology as an assistant on Neil M. Judd's 1922-1924 expeditions to Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico. In 1924, he became an aid in the United States National Museum Division of Ethnology and shortly afterwards was promoted to assistant curator. He received a Masters in Anthropology from the George Washington University in 1925 and was appointed associate curator in 1938. In 1939, Collins took a position as senior ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology and became acting director in 1963. When the BAE and the Department of Anthropology were merged in 1965, Collins became a senior scientist in the new Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. He was appointed archeologist emeritus in 1967.

Collins' independent field work during the early part of his career focused on the American South, in which he conducted investigations relating to the Choctaw and to areas whose cultural history was little known. Collins is most recognized, however, for his efforts in Arctic archeology. Between 1927 and 1936, he and colleagues, including James A. Ford and T. Dale Stewart, focused on the Bering Sea area and the Arctic coasts of Alaska, including St. Lawrence Island, Nunivak Island, the Diomedes, Punuk Island, Bristol Bay, Norton Sound, Point Hope, Cape Prince of Wales, the Aleutians, and the interior of the Seward Peninsula.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Copy prints
label: Extent
content: 15 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1936
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Henry Bascom Collins, 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82-23
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting crews, camps, artifacts, and excavated areas from various archeological digs and anthropological expeditions. These include Neil Merton Judd's archeological excavations at Pueblo Bonito, Collins and Hermes Knoblock measuring Choctaw people in Mississippi, James Alfred Ford and Paul Silook at Miyowagh on St. Lawrence Island, and Ford at Cape Prince of Wales.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Henry Bascom Collins's papers, as well as those of James Alfred Ford.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Collins can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 86-42, Photo Lot 86-43, and Photo Lot 86-59.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional papers by Collins can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4908, MS 4976, and MS 4977.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Pueblo Bonito by O. C. Havens can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo lot 83-16.