S. A. Korsun, Iu. E. Berezkin et al.

Indeitsy Kalifornii: katalog kollektsii Kunstkamery [Muzei antropologii i etnografii im. Petra Velikogo] (Indians of California: catalogue of the collection of the Kunstkamera [Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography]), 9785884313057

St. Petersburg: Kunstkamera, 2018. Sewn cl. From the explorations in the 1720s and 30s headed by Vitus Bering serving in the Russian navy to the efforts of the Russian-American Company to form settlements along the west coast of America from California to Alaska, Russian explorers and traders began early to bring back to St. Petersburg artifacts from North America. Fortunate for researchers of later ages the first Russian museum was in St. Petersburg, the Kunstkamera specializing in curiosities of all kinds, and it became the repository of the artifacts. The collection on peoples indigenous to California is especially valuable because most works date to the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century, before the onset of Europeanizing or the influence of white settlers. Jewelry, costume, various woven articles, bows and arrows make up the bulk of the collection, which is considered among the best in the world for the variety, quality, and beauty of the works in its collection. 343 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. Item #3173
ISBN: 9785884313057

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