Contributions

  • King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.) - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Paul Holberton Publishers, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

43,750 words, Guess

Page Count

175 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101903470978
  • ISBN-10190347096X
  • ISBN-139781903470978
  • ISBN-139781903470961
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010537659
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number505749315
  • Better World Books9781903470961
  • Better World Books9781903470978
  • Open LibraryOL24807353M

Classifications

  • LCCN5311 .W38 2009
  • LCCN5311.W38 2009

Alternate Titles

  • Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990
  • 12 Collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990

Description

Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered. The climax of the period of collecting from around 1880 to 1960 coincided with the maximum extent of Empire, when legions of explorers, missionaries, administrators, traders and military personnel brought back to Britain an inexhaustible quantity of exotic material. The sources for the collections included most of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, as well as tribal societies in Asia. --Publisher.

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