Copies of Franz Boas photographs of Kwakiutl Indians
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R97-19
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
name: label: Creator
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Koskimo
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Valerie Pinsky, 1996.
creator: label: Creator
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Franz Boas (1858-1942) was a German-American anthropologist and pioneer of modern anthropological practice.  He studied physics and geography at the universities at Heidelberg and Bonn before completing a doctoral program in physical geography at Kiel in 1881.  After graduation, he joined an expedition of Baffin Island (1883-1884), which influenced his decision to him to focus on cultural tradition rather than biological and physical influences.  In 1885, Boas emigrated to the United States, where he took an editorial position with the journal Science and started what would become his most famous ethnographic project, working among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Indians, in 1886.  Boas spent three years teaching at Clark University in Massachusetts, then took an appointment at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1892.  Boas then moved to New York, where he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1895-1905) and began teaching at Columbia University in 1896. For 37 years, Boas established himself as an academic and mentored numerous future influential anthropologists, including Margaret Mead, Alfred Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Zora Neale Hurston. He also served as one of the founders of both the American Anthropological Association and the International Journal of American Linguistics.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1894
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R97-19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals possibly held by Valerie Pinsky or in the American Philosophical Society archives.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs probably depicting Kwakiutl Indians, including a man in a blanket, a man wearing a bird mask and cedarbark dress, and a woman holding up a cradle or load.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Boas photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Northwest Coast Indian legends and vocabularies by Boas held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 948, MS 1753, and other Numbered Manuscripts.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Boas held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4846, MS 4558, MS 1746, MS 4821, American Ethnological Society records, Bureau of American Ethnology records, and collections of personal papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The American Philosophical Society holds the Franz Boas Papers.