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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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Ethnic art, Art, Primitive Art, Biography, Collectors and collectingPlaces
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Provenance: twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990
2009, Paul Holberton Publishers, University of Washington Press
in English
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1903470978 9781903470978
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