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1001 Curious Things : Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American Art by Kate C. Duncan (2001, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of Washington Press

ISBN-100295980109

ISBN-139780295980102

eBay Product ID (ePID)1720983

Product Key Features

Book Title1001 Curious Things : Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American Art

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Social Science

AuthorKate C. Duncan

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight48.1 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN00-064824

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal305.8/009797/772075

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsChronology: Ye Olde Curiosity ShopPrologueThe Early Years of Ye Old Curiosity Shop: "It Beats the 'Dickens'"Relics and Handiwork: Early Sources of Native Art and ArtifactsJ.E. Standley and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition"Just What a First Class Museum Should Have": Museum CollectingUncommon Treasures for Attractions and AmusementsCuriosities and Charisma: Exotica and Daddy StandleyTotem Poles, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, and Seattle" 1001 Curious Things ": Merchandising Native American GoodsYe Olde Curiosity Shop since 1940Appendix: Ye Old Curiosity Shop Catalogs and BrochuresNotesBibliographyIndex

SynopsisFor more than one hundred years, tourists and residents alike have flocked to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, located on Seattle's waterfront. Here a mummy nicknamed Sylvester, a collection of shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf, and a mermaid preside over walls and cases crammed with an incredible jumble of souvenirs and trinkets, intermixed with authentic Northwest Coast and Alaskan Eskimo carvings, baskets, blankets, and other artworks. The guestbook records visits by Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, and Queen Marie of Rumania, among many others. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was founded in 1899 by Joseph E. "Daddy" Standley, an Ohio-born curio collector who came to Seattle in the late 1890s during the Yukon gold rush. Although Native American material vied for space with exotica from all corners of the globe, it soon grew to be the mainstay of the shop, which became identified with the whalebones displayed outside and the "piles of old Eskimo relics" within. Also to be found were baskets, moccasins, ivory carving from Alaska, Tlingit spruce root baskets, Haida "jadeite" totem poles, masks, paddles, and other curiosities from the Northwest Coast. Indians from the Olympic Peninsula brought baskets, coming up to the back door of the shop in their canoes. Others, originally from British Columbia but now living on the flats not far from the shop, carved miniature totem poles by the hundreds and full-size poles on commission. Trading companies supplied Indian curios from the Plains, Southwest, and California. An art historian trained in the classic arts of the Northwest Coast, Kate Duncan became interested in the history of the shop when she learned that it had not only been an active participant in Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but had also been a major source of important Northwest Coast collections in many museums, including, among others, the Royal Ontario Museum, the George G. Heye Collection (now in the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian), the Washington State Museum, the Newark Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. Granted full access by the present owners -- grandson and great-grandson of "Daddy" Standley -- to the remarkably complete archives maintained from the time the shop opened, Duncan has provided a fascinating chapter in the history of Seattle, especially in its early years, as well as a significant contribution to the literature on tourist arts and collecting., The curio shop on Seattle's waterfront has also been a museum source for Native American art collections.

LC Classification NumberGN36.U62S439 2000