Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0774805374
ISBN 13
9780774805377
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
400
Description
The heyday of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast took place between 1875 and the Great Depression. The scramble for skulls and skeletons, poles, canoes, baskets, feast bowls, and masks went on until it seemed that almost everything not nailed down or hidden was gone. The period of most intense collecting on the coast coincided with the growth of anthropological museums, which reflected the realization that time was running out and that civilization was pushing the indigenous people to the wall, destroying their material culture and even extinguishing the native stock itself. - from Amzon
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1
