Willie Knutsen photographs of caches and a grave in Nunavut
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2005-13, USNM ACC 183098
name: label: Creator
content: Knutsen, Willie, d. 1992
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Eskimo
place: label: Place
content: Nunavut
creator: label: Creator
content: Knutsen, Willie, d. 1992
culture: label: Culture
content: Inuit
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Willie Knutsen (circa 1912-1992) was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Oslo, Norway.  In 1936, he started a career as arctic explorer and leader of scientific enterprises.  Highlights of Knutson's work include the Norwegian-French Germania Land Expedition of 1938-1939 and his discovery and initial excavation of archeological sites in Greenland.   One of the sites discovered by Knutsen on the Silvia Grinnell River was later excavated by Henry Bascom Collins.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film roll : (35 mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940-1948
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Willie Knutsen to the United States National Museum in 1949 (accession 183098). Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 2004.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2005-13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images of caches and an Inuit grave near Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Willie Knutsen photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24 and the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts donated by Knutsen held in the collections of the anthropology department, National Museum of Natural History in accession 183098.