Wolfgang Paalen
in his studio, Paris Villa Seurat 1953, ©Succession Wolfgang Paalen.
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Wolfgang Paalen
Unlike many other collectors of Northwest Coast art, Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959) was an artist rather than a scholar or explorer. A Surrealist painter and theorist of American Abstract-Expressionism, his vision of a responsive, universal art resonated with the […]
CHAPTER VI: 1895-96 PREPARING THE BOOK
Drawing
Drawing
Attributed to Hiłamas/Chief Ned Harris, Kwakwaka’wakw, ca. 1895
Colored pencil, ink, and pencil on paper
6.5 x 10 in. (16.5 x 25.4 cm)
Collected by Franz Boas ca. 1895
Found in United States National Museum collection prior to 1969
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 08533600
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Charles Frederic Newcombe
Image A-02370 courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives.
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Charles F. Newcombe
Charles F. Newcombe (1851-1924) was a physician, naturalist, and collector of Northwest Coast material culture. Born and educated in Great Britain, Newcombe immigrated to the United States with his family in 1884. While living in […]
CHAPTER IV: 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR
Frontlet
Frontlet
Attributed to Sdiihldaa/Simeon Stilthda, Haida (ca. 1799-1889)
Wood, paint, abalone shell,
7 x 5 ¾ in. (17.9 x 14.8 cm)
Collected by Wolfgang Paalen in 1939
Anonymous loan to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, L52.3
Plate 47 from Boas’s 1897 book.
Hunt’s 1920s […]
CHAPTER VIII: POST 1897 COMMERCIAL REPLICAS
Coppers
Copper
Unknown maker, Tlingit
Copper, pigment
37 x 22 in. (94 x 55.9 cm)
Collected by James Swan in 1875
National Museum of Natural History, E20778
Copper
Unknown maker
Copper, pigment
30 x 21 5/8 in. (76.2 x 54.9 cm)
Collected by George Emmons in 1909
American […]
CHAPTER IX: COMMUNITY REPRODUCTIONS
Transformation Mask
Transformation Mask
Corrine Hunt, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Chief David Mungo Knox, Kwakwaka’wakw
Created in 2018–19
Cedar, pigment, string, hardware
22 1/2 x 37 x 31 in. (57.1 x 94 x 78.7 cm)
Hunt Family
Figure 195 from Boas’s 1897 book.
Hunt’s 1920s notes […]
Johan Adrian Jacobsen
Photograph by Jacob Martin Jacobsen, Hamburg, ca. 1875-80. Courtesy of the Jacobsen family, Asker, Norway.
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Johan Adrian Jacobsen
Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853-1947) was an early collector of Native arts from the Northwest Coast at the end of the nineteenth century. Born into a Norwegian sailing family in […]
CHAPTER V: 1894 FORT RUPERT
Whose “Cannibal” Masks?
The Challenge of Cultural Diffusion
Mask
Unknown maker, Heiltsuk
Wood, pigment, hide, fur, string
11 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 9 in. (28.5 x 54 x 23 cm)
Collected by Franz Boas in 1894
American Museum of Natural History, 16/963
Mask
Unknown maker, Nuxalk […]
George Hunt
Photographed by Gibson, Jackson Park, Chicago, 1893. Courtesy of Harvard University Archives, Frederic Ward Putnam Papers. HUG 1717.2.14, World’s Columbian Exposition, Records and Ephemera, Box 37.
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CHAPTER I: FRANZ BOAS AND GEORGE HUNT
George Hunt
One of the most influential figures in Northwest Coast ethnography, […]
CHAPTER IV: 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR
Ceremonial Belt
Ceremonial Belt
Unknown maker, Kwakwaka’wakw
Wood, textile, paint, iron alloy, cordage
39 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (101.3 x 28.6 x 4.8 cm)
Accessioned by the Field Columbian Museum in 1897
Field Museum 18863
Plate 15 from […]