MS 7031 Drawings created or collected by George Hunt
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7031
label: Variant Title
content: Drawings and watercolors of people, animals, boats, ships, and houses
name: label: Creator
content: Hunt, George
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Hunt, George
culture: label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
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content: MS 7031 Drawings created or collected by George Hunt
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: George Hunt (1854-1933) was an ethnographer best known for his work with anthropologist Franz Boas.  Hunt's ethnographic notes and artifact collections provided the first ethno-history of the Kwakwaka'wakw culture.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Drawings (visual works)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Deposited in the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives (now the National Anthropological Archives) by Douglas Osborne, Department of Anthropology, California State College at Long Beach in 1967.  Osborne obtained the drawings from John M. Goggin, University of Florida, who reportedly obtained them from William C. Orchard, of the Heye Foundation.  Goggin represented them as being by George Hunt. Related correspondence is in the accession file.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7031
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of fourteen (14) drawings: four (4) watercolors and ten (10) pencil drawings on 5 sheets of ruled paper.  The drawings may have been created or collected by George Hunt.

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