Henry Bascom Collins films of Yupik Eskimo Life, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
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Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
- Dates:
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circa 1930
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Film reels (black-and-white silent; 2000 feet, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1982.06
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Footage taken by Smithsonian anthropologist Henry Collins and his assistant James Ford in the summer of 1930, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Shots include Eskimos in boats; three men positioning themselves in boulders along seacliffs to catch birds with pole net; dancing and drumming; fishing with both lines and nets; dog teams; the preparat...
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Burn, Farrar, 1888-1974
Burn, June, 1893-1969
- Dates:
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1920-1921
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12 Glass plate negatives
13 Copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.131
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection includes negatives from June and Farrar Burn's time in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska between 1920 and 1921. The Burns were granted teaching appointments from the Bureau of Education in the Alaska School Service and assigned to Gambell where they lived for a year, working closely with the Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) community there.
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Paul, William L. Jr
Curry, James E., 1907-1972
- Dates:
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1932-1958
- Size:
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121.7 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.015
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
These are the papers of Washington, D.C. attorney James E. Curry, whose legal career included work both as a government attorney and in his own private practice. The bulk of the papers reflect his private practice in the area of Indian affairs.
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Brown, Harold E., 1929-2012
Malewotkuk, Florence Nupok
- Dates:
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1952-1953
- Size:
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1 Linear foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.099
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains materials that were created and collected by Corporal Harold E. Brown circa 1952-1953 and relate to his service in the United States Army when he was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War (1950-1953). The materials include letters from Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) artist Florence Nupok Malewotkuk (1906-1971) to Cpl. Brown and...
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Waugh, Donald.
Waugh, Leuman Maurice, 1877-1972.
- Dates:
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1909-1963
- Size:
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2.1 Linear feet ((5 boxes; 1 map case drawer))
1,749 Photographic prints
1,035 Lantern slides
1579 Negatives (photographic)
80 Film reels (16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.003
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Leuman Maurice Waugh collection contains papers, photographs, and film holdings that were created by Waugh during his dental research expeditions to indigenous communities in Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada and in Arctic Alaska.
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Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology. Division of Physical Anthropology
Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
- Dates:
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1850s-1960s
- Size:
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13,000 Items
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.8
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
- Dates:
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1840s-1960s
- Size:
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18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.24
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some p...
