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Collector:

Spicer, John O. (John Orrin)  Search this

Extent:

3 Drawings (pencil, laminated)

Container:

Folder 168997

Culture:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Graphic Materials

Drawings

Works of art

Place:

Arctic regions

North America

Date:

before 1894

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 As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today.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.

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.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 168997

Variant Title:

Eskimos hunting, Eskimo family, animals, and white men by Eskimo artist from Cumberland Gulf, (Northwest Territory (?), Canada)

Related Materials:

Related objects collected by Captain Spicer are held in the Department of Anthropology object collections under Accession 28480.

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).

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Topic:

Hunting  Search this

Marriage and family  Search this

Genre/Form:

Works of art

Drawings

Citation:

MS 168997 Innuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS168997

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Innuit drawings collected by Captain John O. Spicer

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw38810c220-043b-446b-98c9-4b60a7fedfc3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms168997

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)- Cape Dorset  Search this

Place:

Canada

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_8455

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Place:

Canada

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_90479

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Place:

Canada

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_90514

Additional name:

Ashoona, Pitseolak  Search this

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)- Cape Dorset  Search this

Place:

Canada

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_90548

Alternate name:

Arnaqu  Search this

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_92827

Alternate name:

Kenojuak Ashevak  Search this

Additional name:

Ashevak, Kenojuak  Search this

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)- Cape Dorset  Search this

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_92828

Alternate name:

Suvina Ashoona  Search this

Additional name:

Ashoona, Suvina  Search this

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)- Cape Dorset  Search this

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_93160

Creator:

Cotlow, Lewis, 1898-1987  Search this

Extent:

Film reels (8 hours 16 minutes, color sound; 17,400 feet, 16mm)

Linear feet

Culture:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Sound films

Place:

Africa, Eastern

North America

South America

Arctic regions

Oceania

Uganda

Tanzania

Kenya

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Congo (Brazzaville)

Canada

Papua New Guinea

Date:

1949-circa 1969

Scope and Contents:

Original film, prints, elements, sound materials and associated texts from the following films produced by explorer Lewis Cotlow: SAVAGE SPLENDOR, ZANZABUKU, VANISHING AFRICA, TWIGHLIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE, PRIMITIVE PARADISE, JUNGLE HEADHUNTERS, HIGH ARCTIC, IN SEARCH OF THE PRIMITIVE.

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 Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

Biographical / Historical:

Explorer and filmmaker Lewis Cotlow directed expeditions between 1940 and 1969 while carrying the Explorers Club Flag to the Amazon, Africa, Australia, and New Guinea.

Provenance:

Received from Lewis Cotlow in 1978 and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History in 1985 and 1987.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Chimbu (Papua New Guinean people)  Search this

Dani (New Guinean people)  Search this

Enga (Papua New Guinean people)  Search this

Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound films

Sponsor:

Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

Identifier:

HSFA.1985.11

See more items in:

Lewis Cotlow films

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc91afaead0-d81e-4dbf-b886-88265b4b236b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-1985-11

Creator:

Cadzow, Donald A., 1894-1960  Search this

Cadzow, Daniel  Search this

Extent:

8 Photographic prints (black & white)

322 Negatives (photographic)

Culture:

Western Subarctic  Search this

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Plains Ojibwa (Bungi)  Search this

Bush or Western Woods Cree  Search this

Copper Inuit (Copper Eskimo)  Search this

Deh Gah Got'ine (Slavey)  Search this

Denésoliné (Chipewyan)  Search this

Gwich'in (Kutchin)  Search this

Inuvialuit Inupiaq (Mackenzie Delta Eskimo)  Search this

Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood)  Search this

Kaska Dena  Search this

Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]  Search this

T'atsaot'ine (Tatsanottine/Yellowknife)  Search this

Apatohsipipiikani (Northern Piegan) [Piikani Reserve, Brocket, Alberta]  Search this

Dunne-za (Beaver)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Negatives (photographic)

Negatives

Place:

Alaska

New Mexico

Alberta

Manitoba

Yukon

Northwest Territories

Saskatchewan

Date:

1882-1919

Summary:

Images are of the following tribes: Assiniboine, Beaver (Tsattine), Blackfoot (Piegan), Bungi (Older Ojibwa), Chippewa (Older Ojibwa), Cree (Bush, Prairie, Wood, Woodland), Eskimo, Eskimo (Copper River), Kainah (Blood), Loucheux (Gwich'in), Zuni, Slavey (Dene Thá), Yellowknife (Ahtena).

Biographical/Historical note:

Donald A. Cadzow worked on expeditions and archeological excavations for George Gustav Heye and the Museum of the American Indian from 1916 until 1927. Between 1917 and 1919, Cadzow, collected artifacts and archaeological materials from the Copper and Kogmollok Eskimo, the Loucheux, Slavey, and Woodland Cree of Alberta, Canada. In 1919, Cadzow assisted Alanson Skinner on an archeological excavation in Cayuga County, New York. Cadzow next worked with Mark Harrington: excavating a site on Staten Island, New York in 1920; on the Hawikku expedition to study Zuni Indian culture in McKinley County, New Mexico in 1921; and to Arkansas and Missouri in 1922. In 1924 and 1925 he conducted an expedition to a prehistoric Algonkian burial site on Frontenac Island, Cayuga Lake, in New York; traveled to the Bungi tribe in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, and the Prairie Cree in Saskatchewan, Canada. He continued this work in 1926 again visiting the Prairie Cree and also the Bush Cree in Saskatchewan, the Assiniboin in Saskatchewan and Alberta; the Iroquois and the Northern Piegan (Blackfoot) in Alberta. In 1927, the last year that Cadzow worked for Heye, he assisted George P. Putnam on an expedition to Baffin Island and the Hudson Bay district to visit the Sikosuilarmiut, Akuliarmiut, and Quaumauangmiut Eskimos.Donald A. Cadzow, the son of Hugh and Nellie Cadzow, was born in Auburn, New York in 1894. In 1911, at the age of 17, he traveled to the far Canadian Northwest to live with his uncle Daniel Cadzow at the Rampart House, a Hudson Bay Company trading post on the Alaska-Yukon boundary line. After five years there, Cadzow returned to the United States. He began working for George Gustav Heye in the fall of 1916, but enlisted as seaman in the U.S.N.R.F. on January 20, 1918, only to be released from service on December 22 that same year. He returned to work for Heye at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation on January 1, 1919, and worked there until 1928. In May of 1928 he took a job in the Bond Department of Lage & Co., a brokerage company in New York City. He was state archeologist for the Pennsylvania Historical Commission from circa 1929-39; and executive secretary from 1939-45. He was also treasurer of the Eastern States Archeological Federation from 1940-42. In 1945 he was named executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and held the position until 1956. He died on February 9, 1960, in Pennsylvania. During his career Cadzow gave a number of lectures and radio talk programs, and published extensively in Indian Notes (Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York), for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, in a variety of publications, and several books.

Restrictions:

Access restricted. Researchers should contact the staff of the NMAI Archives for an appointment to access the collection.

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Photographic prints

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.004

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4ae048f57-3abf-4435-b8ec-104a50917b7a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-004

Creator:

Lomen Bros.  Search this

Extent:

73 Copy negatives

Culture:

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kinugumiut/Kingegan/Cape Prince of Wales]  Search this

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kingikmiut/Wales, Alaska]  Search this

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy negatives

Place:

Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska)

Nome (Alaska)

Date:

1896-1915

1920

Summary:

This collection of copy negatives was taken approximately between 1896 and 1920 by the Lomen Brothers Studio among Inuit communities in Canada and Inupiaq communities in Alaska. Photographers include the Lomen brothers and Albert D. Kinne (1835-1925).

Scope and Contents:

This collection is currently unprocessed. Copy negatives include N35405–N35477.

Arrangement:

Arranged by catalog number.

Biographical / Historical:

The Lomen Brothers Co. Was a photography studio founded in Nome, Alaska in 1908 by brothers Carl, Harry, Alfred, and Ralph Lomen. Gudbrand J. Lomen originally came to Nome, Alaska with his son George as part of the 1900 gold rush. G.J. Lomen soon established a profitable law practice in Nome. In 1903, G.J. Lomen's wife, daughter Helen, and sons Ralph, Harry and Alfred moved from Minnesota to join him in Nome. G.J. Lomen's son George arrived in Nome in 1906, opening a men's furnishing store in 1907. The family was involved in many commercial and civic interests including law, the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, lighterage, and retail.

In 1908, the brothers bought a photographic studio. Carl, Harry, Alfred, and Ralph Lomen were partners in the business. Harry managed the studio, and all four took photographs; however, Alfred became the most avid photographer. As part of their photography business, the Lomens regularly purchased the negatives of several other photographers including Dobbs, Nowell, Goetze and Kinne to be reissued under the Lomen Brothers Co. studio name. Their photographs focused on a variety of subjects related to Nome and the surrounding areas, including Nome mining operations, business in Nome, dogsled teams, ships and boats, aviation, and indigenous communities throughout Alaska and Canada.

In September 1934, a fire destroyed their studio along with 25,000-30,000 negatives and 50,000 commercial prints. Approximately 3,000 negatives were salvaged. The Lomens never reopened their photography business. By the 1940s they had all moved to Seattle, Washington, where George died in 1934, Alfred in 1950, Harry in 1957, and Carl in 1965.

Adapted from Archives West, Orbis Cascade Alliance.

Provenance:

Photographs received and copied from the Glenbow Museum in a 1967 exchange.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's

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Use

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Digital Image request

website.

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lomen Brothers Studio copy negatives from Alaska and Canada, image #, NMAI.AC.164; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.164

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4adb58fb2-5b43-454c-80b4-d0404f53ac6f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-164

Collector:

Cox, Robert S.  Search this

Extent:

7 Drawings (pencil on paper)

0.21 Linear feet (1 box)

113 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Photographic prints

Photographs

Place:

Greenland

Baffin Island (Canada)

Pond Inlet (Inuit Community)

Date:

1908-1917

Scope and Contents:

Album of photographs and sketches relating to voyages, primarily in the arctic. Includes photographs from the steamer Neptune's 1917 rescue of Donald MacMillan and other members of the Crocker Land Relief Expedition, as well as the Northern Ventures Expedition, ca 1912. Photographs depict Inuit men, women, and children from Greenland and Baffin Island, sailors, sea ice, arctic and marine mammals, and walrus and narwhal ivory. Sketches are portraits, most likely of other sailors or expedition members.

Provenance:

The Album was donated by Benton and Elizabeth Cox Leach in 2015.

Topic:

Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1900-1920

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw34b519a8b-b005-49ca-a05a-a7bc9b41202f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2016-09

Creator:

The Arctic Circle (Gallery: Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this

Names:

Arluk, George, 1949-  Search this

Ashevak, Karoo, 1940-  Search this

Pitseolak, Peter, 1902-1973  Search this

Pudlo, 1916-1992  Search this

Former owner:

Witt, Bert  Search this

Witt, Ellen, 1917-2007  Search this

Extent:

634 Slides (photographs)

152 Photographs

1.6 Linear feet

Culture:

Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Photographs

Articles

Slides

Brochures

Clippings

Place:

Arctic Region -- photographs

Cape Dorset (Nunavut)

Baker Lake (Nunavut)

Date:

1967-1987

bulk 1971-1986

Summary:

The Arctic Circle records include materials gathered by Bert and Ellen Witt for their private gallery of Inuit art The Arctic Circle. These materials include native artists information which is organized by community, reference material organized topically, slides from the gallery's annual print collections as well as photographs of scupltures and textiles displayed in the gallery. Much of the reference material used by the gallery pertains to native communities in the Nunavet Territory of Canada such as Cape Dorset and Baker Lake as well as other small communities throughout the Northwest Territiories. Additionally photographs taken by Bert and Ellen Witt's son Tony during a trip to Canada in 1973 are included in this collection.

Scope and Contents:

The Arctic Circle records include materials gathered by Bert and Ellen Witt for their private gallery of Inuit art The Arctic Circle. These materials include native artists information which is organized by community, reference material organized topically, slides from the gallery's annual print collections as well as photographs of scupltures and textiles displayed in the gallery. Much of the reference material used by the gallery pertains to native communities in the Nunavet Territory of Canada such as Cape Dorset and Baker Lake as well as other small communities throughout the Northwest Territiories. Additionally photographs taken by Bert and Ellen Witt's son Tony during a trip to Canada in 1973 are included in this collection.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into three series: Series 1: Papers, 1971-1980, Series 2: Reference Materials, 1967-1987, Subseries 2.1: Artists Listed by Community, 1971-1984, undated, Subseries 2.2: Reference Library, 1967-1987, undated, Series 3: Photographs, 1971-1987, Subseries 3.1: Gallery Objects, 1979-1987, Subseries 3.2: Witt Family Arctic Trip, 1973, Subseries 3.3: Other Photos, 1971, 1975

Series 1: Papers, 1971-1980

Series 2: Reference Materials, 1967-1987

Subseries 2A: Artists Listed by Community, 1971-1984, undated

Subseries 2B: Reference Library, 1967-1987, undated

Series 3: Photographs, 1971-1987

Subseries 3A: Gallery Objects, 1979-1987

Subseries 3B: Witt Family Arctic Trip, 1973

Subseries 3C: Other Photos, 1971, 1975

Biographical / Historical:

The Arctic Circle was founded in Los Angeles in 1970 as a private art gallery devoted entirely to the exhibition and sale of scupltures and graphics by Inuit artists of the Canadian arctic. Between 1970 and the late 1980's approximately six to eight exhibitions were mounted on themes illustrative of native life in the Canadian arctic. The gallery was created and founded by Bert and Ellen Witt and run out of their home on North La Jolla Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Bert Witt, sometimes accompanied by his wife Ellen and son Tony, traveled extensively in the Canadian arctic visiting many Inuit communities and forming personal aquaintances with native artists. Through the Artic Circle, Witt supported the Arctic co-operative movement by purchasing art through co-ops in each settlement he visited or through the co-op distribution points for the Northwest Territories and Arctic Quebec.

Provenance:

The archival material in this collection accompanied a donation to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001 that included sculptures, drawings, prints and textiles. An additional three photographs were donated by Bert Witt in 2004.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

Inuit art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions  Search this

Art galleries, Commercial -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Articles

Slides

Brochures

Clippings

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection Title, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.004

See more items in:

The Arctic Circle records

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv416c81a30-83ee-4c6a-a6b1-556c349176e5

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-004