Word: nootka
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...said Victor-Howe, also a Peabody associate, who attended the lecture. Victor-Howe said it is possible that the hats may have reached Lewis and Clark through Native American traders or local craftsmen rather than Hill. Hill probably acquired the hats while rescuing an American held captive by a Nootka tribe, known for their basketry hats, Malloy said. The Howells director of the Peabody Museum, William L. Fash, said that objects in the Lewis and Clark exhibit had passed through Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia’s Peale Museum, and the Boston Museum. The Peabody acquired the works after the Boston...
...nearly 60 years after that, Heye bought just about every Indian artifact he could get his hands on--Kwakiutl doorposts, Mayan jade idols, Lenape wampum belts, Nootka whaleboats, plus every kind of headdress, breastplate and beaded skirt. You can see why he was once described as a man who "felt that he couldn't conscientiously leave a reservation until its entire population was practically naked." By the time he died, in 1957, he had amassed about 800,000 items and opened an overburdened private museum in Manhattan...
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