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Collecting native America, 1870-1960 / edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail.

Title
Collecting native America, 1870-1960 / edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail.
Publication
Washington,[D.C.] : Smithsonian Insitution Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Krech, Shepard, 1944-
  • Hail, Barbara A.
Description
vi, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Between the 1870s and the 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups." "In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes toward Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Museums > History
  • Indians of North America > Material culture > Collectors and collecting
  • Indian art > Collectors and collecting > North America
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Zest or zeal? : Sheldon Jackson and the commodification of Alaska Native art / Molly Lee -- Ronoshonni--the builder : David Ross McCord's ethnographic collection / Moira T. McCaffrey -- Charles Fletcher Lummis and the origins of the Southwest Museum / Thomas H. Wilson and Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle -- Rudolf F. Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum / Shepard Krech III -- Patrons, potters, and painters : Phoebe Hearst's collections from the American Southwest / Ira Jacknis -- Museums as inspiration : Clara Endicott Sears and the fruitlands museums / Barbara A. Hail.
  • Collecting to educate : Ernest Thompson Seton and Mary Cabot Wheelwright / Nancy J. Parezo and Karl A. Hoerig -- Every last dishcloth : the prodigious collecting of George Gustav Heye / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Grand amateur collecting in the mid-twentieth century : the Mary W.A. and Francis V. Crane American Indian collection / Joyce Herold.
ISBN
1560988150 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99039620^
OCLC
  • 41932580
  • SCSB-12334584
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library