Collecting Native America, 1870-1960

Name: Collecting Native America, 1870-1960
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ISBN: 9781588342775

ISBN-10: 1588342778

ISBN-13: 9781588342775

Edition: N/A

Authors: Shepard Krech, Shepard Krech

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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 ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs. InCollecting Native Americacontributors 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. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 2/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English