Henry Wood Elliott

Henry Wood Elliott (1846 - 1930) was an American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist whose work primarily focused on Alaskan subjects. A number of his works have an ethnographic bent, displaying aboriginal Alaskans engaging in traditional practices; some of these works are stored in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian. Elliott also focused on the Alaskan landscape and wildlife. cite web|url=http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/features/elliott.htm|title=Henry Wood Elliott: An American Artist in Alaska|publisher=National Museum of Natural History]

In 1886, Elliott published a book entitled "Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands", which contains an in-depth exploration of Alaska's history, geography, people, and wildlife. cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=hOxkclp7TTEC&dq=Henry+Wood+Elliott&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Ss7xuhHeAp&sig=PhL7pNw7xl6xemyYp-KnlmZu4dM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR8,M1|title=Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|date=1886|place=New York]

He became involved in early conservation efforts of the fur seal, in 1905 co-authoring a document with United States Secretary of State John Hay that would eventually become the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, the first international treaty dedicated to the conservation of wildlife. cite web|url=http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/events/fursealtreaty/welcome.html#treaty|title=North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty of 1911|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]

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