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

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Krech, Shepard, III, 1944- editor.

Hail, Barbara A., editor.

Smithsonian Institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Museums--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Material culture--Collectors and collecting.

Indian art--Collectors and collecting--North America.

Indian art.

Physical Description:

vi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, [2010].

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Date of publication from vendors.

Local Notes:

Indiand Rights Association Complimentary Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Collecting native America, 1870-1960

ISBN:

9781588342775

1588342778

OCLC:

654303676