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TitleHerbert J. Spinden

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1939

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationBrooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/58697

Accession numberIF BMA B

SubjectsMen--PortraitsMuseum curatorsNatural history museums

StatusFrom Jane Corby, Curators of Culture, Brooklyn Eagle, April 5, 1939

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“A New American Decorative Art”: The American Museum of Natural History and the Pursuit of a National Design Identity, 1915–1928

Ann Marguerite Tartsinis

Description: An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design,...

An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928

A note on terminology is necessary. In the primary source material, namely departmental correspondence and articles written by Dow, Crawford, and the AMNH curators (for both popular and scholarly audiences), terms such as “primitive,” “native,” “aboriginal,” and “indigenous” were used interchangeably,...

Author

Ann Marguerite Tartsinis

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.12-23

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00254.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21665&redirecttoanchor=69376

Chapter subject tags:Natural history collectionsIndigenous artTextile industry--United StatesMuseum exhibits

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