Photographs of Henry Bascom Collins in the Arctic
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 86-43
name: label: Photographer
content: Brandt, G. Herman
label: Names
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Alaskan Eskimo

Inuit
place: label: Place
content: Southampton Island (Nunavut)
label: Place
content: Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
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 on the Bering Sea area and the Arctic coasts of Alaska, studying influences of Eskimo culture. His field work later expanded eastward to Baffin, Cornwallis, and Southampton islands during the period 1948-1955.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1929, 1936, 1955
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs donated by William F. Fitzhugh.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.86-43
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made on the 1936 expedition to Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, and at Southampton Island, Canada in 1954 or 1955. They include images of Henry Bascom Collins and others gathering bone and botanical specimens and travelling in a umiak. The collection was gathered for use by the Smithsonian National Associates' tour of Alaska in 1981, which was led by Collins and William F. Fitzhugh.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional prints made for the 1981 National Smithsonian Associates' tour to Alaska can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 86-42.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Collins in the Arctic can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 82-23, and Photo Lot 86-59.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Collins's papers, a recording of his tour of Eskimo collections on exhibit (MS 2011-36), and William W. Fitzhugh's material concerning Henry Bascom Collins (MS 7525).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Footage of Yupik community 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: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds audio recordings of oral history interviews with Collins (SIA RU009528) and images of Collins in the Arctic.