Collecting Native America, 1870-1960

298 pages; b&w illustrations. "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." Clean, unmarked throughout.

From Publisher:

Between the 1870s and the 1950s, collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out in part to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological colelctions amounting to well over 1,000,000 objects. Many founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs.

Product Info

ISBN: 1560988150

ISBN-13: 9781560988151

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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