Inuit drawings collected by Ludwig Kumlien
name: label: Names
content: Howgate Polar Expedition (1877-1878)
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Arctic regions
culture: label: Culture
content: Baffinland Inuit
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content: Inuit drawings collected by Ludwig Kumlien
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Aaron Ludwig Kumlien (1853–1902) was an American ornithologist.  He was a member of the Howgate Polar Expedition (1877-1878) and collected ethnological, zoological, botanical, and other specimens for the United States National Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Drawings (visual works) (graphite)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1877-1878
container: label: Container
content: Box 87819 / 87824, Folder 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawings were collected by Ludwig Kumlien on the Howgate Polar Expedition and most likely deposited in the United States National Museum (USNM) along with other artifacts from the Expedition.  There are no USNM accession or catalog numbers associated with the drawings.  The drawings were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS87819
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
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The drawings in this collection were originally cataloged by the National Anthropological Archives in two lots as "Drawings, Eskimo--Land and sea animals, inscribed "Wrichatau, a Cumberland Island Eskimo" and "Drawings, Eskimo--Eskimo activities, insects, animals, and a stone lamp, by Eskimo artists from Cumberland Island."  In 2023, all drawngs collected by Kumlien were consolidated into a single collection.  The drawings were arranged chronologically.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of eleven (11) drawings by Inuit artists collected by Ludwig Kumlien on the Howgate Polar Expedition.  The drawings depict animals and daily activities, including hunting.

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