Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS 168997
- Variant Title
- Eskimos hunting, Eskimo family, animals, and white men by Eskimo artist from Cumberland Gulf, (Northwest Territory (?), Canada)
- Collector
- Spicer, John O. (John Orrin)
- Place
- Arctic regions
- North America
- Topic
- Hunting
- Marriage and family
- Provenance
- The drawings were received as a gift from Captain John Spicer, Groton, Connecticut through O. T. Mason, USNM, September 11, 1894, along with lamp and fire making apparatus (USNM Accession number 28,480).
- Collector
- Spicer, John O. (John Orrin)
- Culture
- Inuit
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- Inuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer
- Biographical Note
- John O. Spicer was a whaling captain based in Connecticut. He was master of the sailing ships S. B. Howes, Nile, and Era. Several of his voyages were to the Arctic, and he became acquainted with Franz Boas during his fieldwork on Baffin Island in the 1880s.
- Extent
- 3 Drawings (visual works) (pencil, laminated)
- Date
- before 1894
- Container
- Folder 168997
- Custodial History
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS168997
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Graphic Materials
- Drawings (visual works)
- Works of art
- Drawings
- Citation
- Inuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer (MS 168997), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Genre/Form
- Works of art
- Drawings
- Scope and Contents
- The collection consists of three (3) drawings by an unidentied native artist. Two drawings are inscribed or signed "Doctor." The drawings were collected by Captain John O. Spicer near Cumberland Sound, Nunavut, Canada. 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 As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today.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.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1538074206490-1538074206493-0
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