Guy Kakarook drawings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 316702

USNM Accession 66880

OPPS NEG MNH 2039

OPPS NEG MNH 2039-A--O

OPPS NEG MNH 2040

OPPS NEG MNH 2040-A--N

OPPS NEG MNH 1712

OPPS NEG MNH 1712-A--Z

OPPS NEG MNH 1713

OPPS NEG MNH 1713-A--D

OPPS NEG MNH 37193-A

OPPS NEG MNH 37193-B
label: Variant Title
content: Drawings of Eskimo scenes
name: label: Artist
content: Kakarook, Guy
label: Collector
content: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
place: label: Place
content: Alaska
label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Kakarook, Guy
label: Collector
content: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
culture: label: Culture
content: Iñupiaq
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Guy Kakarook was a Inupiat artist born in the 1860s in Atnuk, a small village 75 miles north of St. Michael, Alaska.  He is known for his engraved ivory, as well as his drawings in watercolor, ink, and crayon on paper. Kakarook traveled to St. Michael to trade and to find work on the many Yukon River steamers owned by traders and Russian missionaries.
label: Biographical Note
content: Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. In 1885, Jackson was appointed General Agent of Education in the Alaska Territory.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes (disbound and laminated; 64 drawings, crayon, ink, and watercolor, 10 x 8 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900
container: label: Container
content: Box 316702/316703, Folder 1-12
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawings were part of an Alaskan ethnological and geological collection made by Rev. Sheldon Jackson.  The Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) purchased the collection from Jackson's daughter, (Elizabeth) Lesley Jackson, in July 1921.  The collection was transferred from the BAE to the United States National Museum (Accession Number 66880).  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.MS316702
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Watercolors
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of two books of drawings by Guy Kakarook. The books have been disbound and the pages laminated.  The drawings depict life along the Yukon River and the area of St. Michael between 1894 and 1903. Volume 1 contains winter scenes and Volume 2 contains summer scenes.  The date 1895 appears in pencil on the cover of Volume 1 and may be the date of production or of collection.

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: Other Sheldon Jackson materials purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology are held by the National Anthropological Archives in MS 316703 and by the Department of Anthropology object collections (Accession 66880).