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

by Aldona Jonaitis

Book Overview

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: 4.29 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher