Collecting Native America, 1870-1960
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Book Description
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed by means both proper and questionable ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects. Many founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about Native American skills, practices, and beliefs. The contributors to Collecting Native America examine the motivations and methods of eleven collectors who devoted their lives and fortunes to acquiring these artifacts and opening museums. COLLECTIONS DESCRIBED:
Southwest Museum-Los Angeles
National Museum of the American Indian-New York
McCord Museum of Canadian History-Montreal
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology-UC Berkeley
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology-Brown University
Wheelright Museum of the American Indian-Santa Fe
Fruitlands Museums-Harvard
Ernest Thompson Seton's Collections-New Mexico
Francis and Mary Crane's Collection-Denver Museum of Natural History.
Collecting Native America, 1870-1960,Shepard Krech,Barbara A. Hail,Smithsonian Books,1560988150,American - General,Archaeological Museums And Collections,Archaeology,Art & Art Instruction,Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum,Collectors and collecting,History,History: American,Indian art,Indians of North America,Material culture,Museums,Native American,Native American Archaeology,North America,Antiques & Collectables,Ethnography,Indigenous peoples,Museums & Museology,USA
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