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Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

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Description for Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts paperback. 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. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 608.

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.

Douglas Cole examines the process of collecting in the ... Read more

For the new edition of Captured Heritage, Douglas Cole has written a preface in which he outlines developments since the book’s first publication in 1985. Since that time, for example, the Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Center on Quadra Island and the U'Mista Museum and Cultural Center at Alert Bay have been successful in having some of their artifacts repatriated.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
UBC Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774805377
SKU
V9780774805377
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Douglas Cole
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).

Reviews for Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
A new door has been opened by Douglas Cole on the scramble. The rivalry of the “collectors.” As I visit the museums of the world this book will haunt my steps.
Ron MacIsaac
What’s Happening?
Captured Heritage is a major contribution to museum history and to an understanding of the nature of collecting on the Northwest Coast ... Read more

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