Inuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 168997
label: Variant Title
content: Eskimos hunting, Eskimo family, animals, and white men by Eskimo artist from Cumberland Gulf, (Northwest Territory (?), Canada)
name: label: Collector
content: Spicer, John O. (John Orrin)
place: label: Place
content: Arctic regions
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: Marriage and family
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The drawings were received as a gift from Captain John Spicer, Groton, Connecticut through O. T. Mason, USNM, September 11, 1894, along with lamp and fire making apparatus (USNM Accession number 28,480).
creator: label: Collector
content: Spicer, John O. (John Orrin)
culture: label: Culture
content: Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Inuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: John O. Spicer was a whaling captain based in Connecticut.  He was master of the sailing ships S. B. Howes, Nile, and  Era. Several of his voyages were to the Arctic, and he became acquainted with Franz Boas during his fieldwork on Baffin Island in the 1880s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Drawings (visual works) (pencil, laminated)
unitdate: label: Date
content: before 1894
container: label: Container
content: Folder 168997
custodhist: label: Custodial History
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dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS168997
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of three (3) drawings by an unidentied native artist. Two drawings are inscribed or signed "Doctor."  The drawings were collected by Captain John O. Spicer near Cumberland Sound, Nunavut, Canada.


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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Related objects collected by Captain Spicer are held in the Department of Anthropology object collections under Accession 28480.