Henry B. Collins, Jr., in Camp in Alaska, 1929

Summary

While conducting field work in Alaska in 1929, Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., (1899-1987), archaeologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, cleans bones in his camp at Cape Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.

Subject

• Collins, Henry Bascom 1899-
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of Henry B. Collins, Jr., Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, March 12, 1985, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9528, Box 1, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1929

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Camp sites, facilities, etc
• St. Lawrence Island
• Anthropology
• Employees
• Skulls
• Physical anthropology
• Camps
• Archaeology
• Equipment
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Collectors and collecting
• Specimens
• Skeleton
• Camping
• Cape Kialegak
• Camping--Equipment and supplies
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Archaeologists

Place

Alaska

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2009-2048 and 4889-B

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 9 3/8w x 6h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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