Captured Heritage - The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

Douglas Cole was for many years a member of the Department of History at Simon Fraser University and a respected historian of British Columbia. He is co-editor of The Journals of George M. Dawson (UBC Press, 1989) and To the Charlottes (UBC Press, 1993).

List of contents

Preface to the Reprint
Introduction
1 Prelude
2 Secretary Baird and Judge Swan
3 The French and German Competitors
4 The North American Rivals
5 Museums, Expositions, and Their Specimens
6 The American Museum and Dr. Boas
7 The Field Museum and Dr. Newcombe
8 A Declining Market
9 Successful Collecting in Thin Country
10 Epilogue
11 Themes and Patterns
Notes
Index

About the author

Douglas Cole was for many years a member of the Department of History at Simon Fraser University and a respected historian of British Columbia. He is co-editor of The Journals of George M. Dawson (UBC Press, 1989) and To the Charlottes (UBC Press, 1993).

Summary

Douglas Cole Examines the process of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast between 1875 and the Great Depression, in the context of the development of museums and anthropology.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Cole
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780774805377
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0537-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 230 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 608 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology