Smithsonian Institution Office of Printing and Photographic Services photographs of Henry Bascom Collins and St. Lawrence Island dancers
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 94-33
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
label: Names
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Siberian Yupik
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
culture: label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Henry B. Collins began his career in anthropology as an assistant on Neil M. Judd's 1922-1924 expeditions to Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico. In 1924, he became an aid in the United States National Museum Division of Ethnology, and later was appointed to assistant curator, associate curator, and archeologist emeritus. He was also a senior ethnologist and later acting director for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Between 1927 and 1936, Collins did field work in the Bering Sea area and the Arctic coasts of Alaska, studying influences of Eskimo culture. From 1948-1955, his field work expanded eastward to Baffin, Cornwallis, and Southampton islands.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 5 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.94-33
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Group portraits of Henry Bascom Collins and a St. Lawrence Island dance group, made by a Smithsonian photographer on June 22, 1982. The photographs were taken at the opening of the "Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo" exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. Papers and a recording of his tour of Eskimo collections on exhibit (MS 2011-36).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of the "Inua" exhibit opening held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 83-29.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Footage of Yupik Eskimo Life, made by Collins, can be found in the Human Studies Film Archives in HSFA 82.6.1.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Collins in the Arctic held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 82-23, and Photo Lot 86-59.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds audio recordings of oral history interviews with Collins (SIA RU009528) and images of Collins in the Arctic.