Henry Wood Elliott drawing of an Inuit boy from the Punuk Islands
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 18229

NAA INV 08529400
label: Publication Note
content: Published in:

Nelson, Edward W. The Eskimo About Bering Strait. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology [...] 1896-1897. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Fig 20, p 331.
name: label: Creator
content: Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Arctic regions
creator: label: Creator
content: Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930
culture: label: Culture
content: Siberian Yupik [Ponuk Island, off St. Lawrence Island]
label: Culture
content: Eskimo/Inuit
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 travelled 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: 1 Drawings (visual works) (ink, 8 x 10 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1874 August 18
container: label: Container
content: Box 18229
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The provenance of the collection is unknown; there is no accession information available.  It may have been acquired from Edward W. Nelson along with the manuscript for the 18th BAE Annual Report.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS18229
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 one (1) drawing of an Inuit boy by Henry Wood Elliott.  The drawing is inscribed "[Eskimo] Inuit Boy, Poonook, St. Lawrence Island August 18, 1874" and is signed and dated by the artist: "H. W. E., 1874."

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds additional drawings by Henry Wood Elliott in MS 7119.

Drawings by Henry Wood Elliott are also 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.