Drawing Shadows to Stone                                                   C
Subtitle: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1902
Contributors: Laurel Kendall (Editor); American Museum of Natural History (Corporate Author)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780295976471
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Human ecology; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides; Photography & Photographs; Exhibition Catalogs; Photography; Photo Essays; Anthropology - Cultural; History; Photoessays & Documentaries; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Canada; Northwest Coast of North Ameri; Northwest Coast of North America; Photography in ethnology; Russia (Federation); Siberia
Description: This book reexamines photographs from an early anthropological expedition to the North Pacific after a century of change. In 1897 Morris Jesup, president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, sponsored a five-year expedition to Alaska and Siberia. This immense research project left a legacy of classic ethnographies, irreplaceable museum collections, and some three thousand photographs.

Thomas Ross Miller and Barbara Mathe examine how early anthropologists saw their task and how they used photographs as cultural and biological data, as documentation of places, events, and artifacts, and as models for future exhibits.