Product Description: American mariners made more than 175 voyages to the Northwest Coast during the half-century after the ships Columbia and Washington pioneered the route from Boston in 1787. Although obtaining sea otter pelts for the China trade was the original purpose of the voyages, the art and culture of Northwest Coast Indians so intrigued and fascinated American sailors that the collecting of ethnographic artifacts became an important secondary trade...read more

Examines the Native American artifacts from the Hauberg Collection, describing the function of each object and introducing the traditions of several cultures

Shows and describes the background of Indian headdresses, masks, amulets, baskets, helmets, totem poles, rattles, blankets, tunics and drums