The Conquest of the West. Native American collections from the Smithsonian Institution preserved at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.
Louvre School| N° d'inventaire | 23078 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 247 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711871162 |
At the end of the 19th century, the Smithsonian Institution, which had very quickly undertaken to build a vast network of scientific correspondents around the world, began a process of exchanges with the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro and regularly sent hundreds of objects produced by the indigenous cultures of North America. Camille Faucourt chose these little-known collections, which remained in French collections for over a century before reaching the Musée du Quai Branly, their current location. Among these objects, which arrived between 1880 and 1890, are one hundred and forty-seven pieces from the American West, which entered the Smithsonian collections from the 1860s to the 1880s. All of the pieces from the American West that appear in the inventory records of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro were included in this corpus of study, including the fifteen pieces that are no longer listed in the collection's inventory today. The documentation accompanying these objects has allowed for a broader reflection on the collection of Indigenous material culture in the United States in the 19th century. The immense historical diversity of the corpus has led the author to question the methods of constitution of the collection over the course of explorations and to clarify the intentions that led to the selection and grouping of the objects that today form a whole. This second cycle dissertation in applied research into the history of collections, winner of the 2014 Ecole du Louvre Association prize, is a continuation of research work carried out for several years at the Ecole du Louvre on American ethnographic collections held in France.
At the end of the 19th century, the Smithsonian Institution, which had very quickly undertaken to build a vast network of scientific correspondents around the world, began a process of exchanges with the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro and regularly sent hundreds of objects produced by the indigenous cultures of North America. Camille Faucourt chose these little-known collections, which remained in French collections for over a century before reaching the Musée du Quai Branly, their current location. Among these objects, which arrived between 1880 and 1890, are one hundred and forty-seven pieces from the American West, which entered the Smithsonian collections from the 1860s to the 1880s. All of the pieces from the American West that appear in the inventory records of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro were included in this corpus of study, including the fifteen pieces that are no longer listed in the collection's inventory today. The documentation accompanying these objects has allowed for a broader reflection on the collection of Indigenous material culture in the United States in the 19th century. The immense historical diversity of the corpus has led the author to question the methods of constitution of the collection over the course of explorations and to clarify the intentions that led to the selection and grouping of the objects that today form a whole. This second cycle dissertation in applied research into the history of collections, winner of the 2014 Ecole du Louvre Association prize, is a continuation of research work carried out for several years at the Ecole du Louvre on American ethnographic collections held in France.