From the Land of the Totem Poles: The Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History

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Автор: Aldona Jonaitis

Название: From the Land of the Totem Poles: The Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History

Издательство: American Museum of Natural History/University of Washington Press

Год: 1988

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 278

Язык: English

Размер: 62.2 MB

In 1943 French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in New York City, along with countless refugees from the war in Europe. He became a frequent visitor to the North Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History where he could lose himself in what he affectionately called "a magic place where the dreams of childhood hold a rendezvous, where century-old tree trunks sing and speak, where undefinable objects watch out for the visitor, with the anxious stare of human faces, where animals of superhuman gentleness join their little paws like hands in prayer." Two and a half million people now visit the Museum each year to share in these enchantments.