Collecting native America, 1870-1960
By: edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail
Contributors: Krech, Shepard, 1944-; Hail, Barbara A
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Museums -- History; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Collectors and collecting; Indian art -- North America -- Collectors and collecting
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Zest or Zeal? Sheldon Jackson and the commodification of Alaska native art / Molly Lee; title: Rononshonni, the builder: David Ross McCord's ethnographic collection / Moira T. McCaffrey; title: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the origins of the Southwest Museum / Thomas H. Wilson and Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle; title: Rudolf F. Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum / Shepard Kerech III; title: Patrons, potters, and painters: Phoebe Hearst's collections from the American Southwest / Ira Jacknis; title: Museums as inspiration: Clara Endicott Seras and the Fruitlands Museums / Barbara A. Hail; title: Collecting to educate: Ernest Thompson Seton and Mary Cabot Wheelwright / Nancy J. Parezo and Karl A. Hoerig; title: Every last dishcloth: the prodigious collecting of George Gustav Heye / Clara Sue Kidwell; title: Grand amateur collecting in the mid-twentieth century: the Mary W.A. and Francis V. Crane American Indian Collection / Joyce Herold