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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krech, Shepard, III, 1944-
Hail, Barbara A.
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Museums > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Material culture > Collectors and collecting.
Indigenous art > North America > Collectors and collecting.
Physical Description:vi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Zest or Zeal? Sheldon Jackson and the commodification of Alaska native art / Molly Lee
  • Rononshonni, 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 Kerech 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.