Transcriber’s Notes on the IllustrationsBureau of Ethnology articles rarely included artist credits, but some of the drawings are signed:artist’s signaturesHenry Hobart Nichols (1869-1962) was one of the Smithsonian’s stable of artists. These drawings would have been some of his earliest work. The “fil.” in one signature distinguishes him from his father, the engraver H. Hobart Nichols (1838-1886), whose signature also appears in at least one Bureau of Ethnology publication.
Bureau of Ethnology articles rarely included artist credits, but some of the drawings are signed:
artist’s signatures
Henry Hobart Nichols (1869-1962) was one of the Smithsonian’s stable of artists. These drawings would have been some of his earliest work. The “fil.” in one signature distinguishes him from his father, the engraver H. Hobart Nichols (1838-1886), whose signature also appears in at least one Bureau of Ethnology publication.