CHAPTER VII: POST 1897 AFTERLIVES
Generations of a Hamat’sa
The figure of a crouching Hamat̕sa initiate followed a path similar to that of the larger life group. An 1893 photograph of Chicago Jim provided the basis for a detailed drawing in Franz Boas’s unpublished report on the fair’s Anthropology […]
CHAPTER VI: 1896-96 PREPARING THE BOOK
From Hunt’s Manuscripts to Publication
Page from a Hunt manuscript, ca. 1895–97. Franz Boas Papers, American Philosophical Society Library.
Highlighted passage corresponds to Hunt’s manuscript, left.
Between 1895 and 1897, George Hunt recorded a large number of historical […]
CHAPTER VIII: POST 1897 COMMERCIAL REPLICAS
Headdresses
Headdress
Unknown maker, Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw
Pigment, cedar bark, nails, red cedar, cotton twine, yew, stinging nettle twine, spruce root binding
10 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 24 3/8 in. (27 x 24 x 62 cm)
Collected by Johan Adrian Jacobsen ca. 1882
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, […]
CHAPTER VII: POST 1897 AFTERLIVES
Reproducing the Life Group
Derivative Hamat̕sa exhibit at the Field Museum, Chicago.
The Field Museum, Image No. CSA16242, Cat. Nos. 85803 and 79785,
photographer Charles Carpenter.
Derivative Hamat̕sa exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Milwaukee Public Museum, MPM Neg. No. 7670.
In […]
CHAPTER V: 1894 FORT RUPERT
From Photographs to Book Plate
Source photographs of Fort Rupert used for plate 10 in Boas’s 1897 book. Left to right: American Museum of Natural History Library, #336116 and #336062; National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH 3944; American Museum of Natural […]
Lt. George Emmons
Image # 328741, American Museum of Natural History Library.
More Collectors
George Thornton Emmons
Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons (1852–1945) acquired more than 11,000 Northwest Coast and Alaskan objects in his lifetime. de Laguna, “George Thornton Emmons as Ethnographer,” xix He was the most active and persistent collector on the […]
CHAPTER XI: BEHIND THE SCENES
The Franz Boas/George Hunt
1897 Critical Edition Project
“A large part of our history wouldn’t be there… if it wasn’t for George Hunt and Franz Boas”
—Chief William T. Cranmer, 2018
This exhibition contributes to an international collaboration, the purpose of which is to produce a […]
CHAPTER X: REPATRIATION
Repatriation
“The Center was to be far more than a museum. It was in fact a box of treasures, and a focus for all our efforts to strengthen the culture, language, and history that were almost lost. We named it the U’mista Cultural Centre.”
— […]
CHAPTER IX: COMMUNITY REPRODUCTIONS
Community Reproductions
“In the beginning, the book felt like this very static thing. But when you get into it, there are objects, there are stories, there are songs that have been recorded… that we can reproduce and bring back to life.”
– Corrine Hunt, […]
CHAPTER VIII: POST 1897 COMMERCIAL REPLICAS
Post 1897: Commercial Replicas
“It gives me greatest concern to think that in continuing this work you might get specimens that are not in reality what you and I suppose them to be.”
—Franz Boas to George Hunt, 3 January 1900
The 1897 […]