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

by Aldona Jonaitis

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:029596572X

ISBN13:9780295965727

Release Date:March 1988

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Length:269 Pages

Weight:4.15 lbs.

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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