William Henry Holmes drawings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 87825
name: label: Creator
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
place: label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The drawings were found in the Department of Anthropology collections; no accession or catalog information is available.  They were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969.
creator: label: Creator
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
culture: label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Greenland
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Henry Holmes drawings
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) was an artist, geologist, and archaeologist who spent most of his career with the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, United States Geological Survey, Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), and Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian. From 1894-1897, he was the head of anthropology at the Field Columbian Museum (Field Museum of Natural History) and on the staff of the University of Chicago. He later served as head curator for the US National Museum Department of Anthropology from 1897-1902 and head of the BAE from 1902-1909.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor; ink)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1881-1901
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS87825
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Watercolors
label: Type
content: Drawings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The drawings in this collection were originally cataloged by NAA individually without catalog numbers.  In 2023, the drawings were incorporated into a single collection under MS 87825.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of three (3) drawings by William Henry Holmes.  Two of the drawings are watercolors depicting Pawnee earth lodges.  The third drawing depicts a scene of a Smith Sound Eskimo family used as the basis for an exhibit diorama.

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: Correspondence by Holmes can be found throughout the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7206, the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the records of the Department of Anthropology.

Manuscripts, notes, and artwork by Holmes can be found throughout the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4698, MS 2125, MS 7112, MS 7570, MS 2011-19 and others.


The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the William Henry Holmes Papers, 1870-1931 (SIA RU007084).