Frederick Gokliz drawings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 270077

USNM Accession 52933

NAA INV 08600101

NAA INV 08600102

OPPS NEG 4-205-B
label: Variant Title
content: Devil dance, and battle scene
name: label: Creator
content: Gokliz, Frederick, -1901
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Gokliz, Frederick, -1901
culture: label: Culture
content: Chiricahua Apache
label: Culture
content: White Mountain Apache
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Frederick Gokliz was a White Mountain Apache, residing during the early 1880s on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona with his wife, a daughter of Cochise.
In 1886 Gokliz was imprisoned with the Chiricahua Apaches at Fort Marion in San Augustine, Florida, and remained with the Chiricahua prisoners for the rest of his life. From 1888 to 1894 Gokliz was at Mount Vernon, Alabama. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1891, moving to Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1894.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Drawings (visual works) (colored pencil and ink, laminated, 22.75 x 41.25 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Folder 270077
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawing is part of a large collection of ethnographic material, principally from the southern plains, amassed by Captain Allyn K. Capron and his wife Lillian Capron while they were stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory (Oklahoma). The United States National Museum purchased the collection from Mrs. Capron for $500 on June 26, 1911 (USNM Accession 52933). The drawing was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS270077
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 two (2) drawings on one sheet of paper by Frederick Gokliz.  The paper has been laminated.

One drawing depicts a Giha or Mountain Spirit dance and the other drawing depicts a battle scene.  The sheet is labelled "49" and signed by the artist: Frederick Gokliz.

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: The Department of Anthropology object collections holds drawings by Gokliz on rawhide (Catalog Number 385920 and 270075).

The Newberry Library holds drawings by Gokliz in the Edward E. Ayer Collection.