MS 7119 Henry Wood Elliott drawings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7119
name: label: Creator
content: Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930
label: Names
content: Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey)
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content: Washakie, approximately 1804-1900
place: label: Place
content: Alaska
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content: British Columbia
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content: Wyoming
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content: Arctic regions
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content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo/Inuit
label: Culture
content: Unangax̂ (Aleut)
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen)
label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: MS 7119 Henry Wood Elliott drawings
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) was a conservationist, naturalist, artist and scientist.  From 1862-1878 he worked for the Smithsonian Institution, studying and sketching natural history. In 1864 he traveled to British Columbia in his first field expedition. From 1869-1871 Elliott worked on the U.S. Geological Survey. Between 1872 and 1890 Elliott made three trips to Alaska to investigate seal conditions on the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea.  His sketches of St. Paul's Island provided persuasive evidence of the need to stop the seal slaughter.  He authored the first international wildlife conservation treaty, the Hay-Elliott Fur Seal Treaty of 1911.  When not in the field Elliott lived in Cleveland, tending to local business matters and his vineyards.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor, pencil, ink)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1892
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Fifteen of the drawings in this collections were transferred from Department of Anthropology Processing Lab to the National Anthropological Archives on December 6, 1974.  These drawings may have been loaned to the United States National Museum by the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior in 1956.  The provenance of the remaining five drawings in the collection is unknown.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7119
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
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content: Works of art
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content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Watercolors
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The drawings in this collection were originally cataloged under MS 7119 and MS 397353.  "MS 397353" does not correspond to a USNM accession or catalog number.

In 2023, the collection was reprocessed and the drawings were incorporated into a single collection under number MS 7119.  The archivist replaced the titles previously assigned to the drawings with titles provided by the artist.  These include captions on the drawings themselves and captions from published versions. Untitled drawings were assigned titles in square brackets [].
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
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content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of twenty (20) drawings by Henry Wood Elliott.  There are fifteen large black-and-white watercolor and pencil views of fishing and hunting in Alaska, two small watercolors made in British Columbia, and three ink sketches made while Elliott was serving with the Hayden Survey in Wyoming in 1870.  

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives hold an additional drawing by Henry Wood Elliott in MS 18229.

Drawings by Henry Wood Elliott are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives; Archives of American Art; Cleveland Museum of Natural History; University of Alaska Museum; Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks; and others.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: An oil painting by Elliott, Tlingit Indians Raking in Eulachon, was transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1985.66.397,304).