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Catalogue raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology
This book documents, with photographs and complete descriptions, the more than 2,200 Native Alaskan (Eskimo, Aleut, Northwest Coast, and Athapaskan) objects originally collected by the Alaska Commercial Company and donated to the University of California in 1897. Introducing the catalogue are essays on the historical background and cultural context and significance of the collection. Also included are indexes of personal and geographical names and a concordance. -- Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 0520097831
- ISBN: 9780520097834
- Physical Description: xix, 582 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Errata slip inserted.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-565) and indexes.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword / Samuel J. Salkin -- Preface and Acknowledgments / Nelson H.H. Graburn and Molly Lee -- Introduction: The Alaska Commercial Company Collection / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- Context and Contact: The History and Activities of the Alaska Commercial Company, 1867-1900 / Molly Lee -- The Eskimo and Aleut Collection / Jean-Loup Rousselot -- The Northwest Coast Collection / Robin K. Wright -- The Athapaskan Collection / Kate C. Duncan -- The Henry W. Elliott Watercolors / Molly Lee and Nelson H.H. Graburn -- Miscellaneous: Objects Not Originally in Catalogue 2 / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- The Production of the Catalogue / Jeannine Davis-Kimball -- The Catalogue. Key to the Catalogue. Eskimo and Aleut Collection. Northwest Coast Indian Collection. Athapaskan Indian Collection. The Henry W. Elliott Watercolors. Miscellaneous Objects -- Concordance (HMA and Catalogue numbers).
- Citation/References Note:
- Book review by Dorothy Jean Ray, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 22, no. 2 (spring 1997), p. 85, 95Book review by J.C.H. King, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 22, no. 2 (spring 1997), p. 92-93, 95
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 36 .U62 G73 1996 | 282369 | Stacks | Available | - |
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