A New Thing?: The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective

Autor/in	Jacknis, Ira
Titel	A New Thing?: The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 30 (2006) 3-4, S.511-542 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	American Indian Culture; Art; United States History; American Indian History; Museums; Anthropology; American Indians; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Kunst; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Anthropologie; American Indian; Indianer
Abstract	In 1916 George Gustav Heye (1874-1975), a wealthy engineer and financier, founded the Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Heye served as director of the museum, which opened to the public in 1922, until 1956. In 1989, after several decades of financial problems and declining attendance, the Heye collections were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, where they became the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). In this essay, the author explores the (National) Museum of the American Indian by comparing the institution to other collections of Native American objects, and attempts to place the Museum of the American Indian in varying disciplines (anthropology, art, history) and geographic (city, region, nation) contexts. Although the author considers the basics of Heye's life and subsequent history of the Museum of the American Indian, this essay is meant to relate Heye and the MAI to a larger historical context. In this article, the author discusses the history of the Museum of the American Indian, which is divided into three periods: (a) the time under Heye; (b) the period after Heye's death; and (c) the present, as the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian. (Contains 73 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10