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PROPHETS AND GHOSTS PROPHETS GHOSTS and the story of salvage anthropology SAMUEL J. REDMAN Harvard University Press CAMBRIDGE, MAS SA CHU SETTS & LONDON, ENGLAND 2021 Copyright © 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Cover design: Tim Jones Cover photograph: Headdress formerly owned by Chief Rain in the Face (Iromagaja / Ito-na-gaju / Ite-Mahazhu / I-Te-Amaghazhu / Exa-ma-gozua), Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), c. 1835-1905. Sold by him to painter De Cost Smith in 1884 or 1885 and bequeathed to the former Museum of the American Indian, New York, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian. 9780674269996 (EPUB) 9780674270015 (PDF) Publication of this book has been supported through the generous provisions of the Maurice and Lula Bradley Smith Memorial Fund The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Redman, Samuel J., author. Title: Prophets and ghosts : the story of salvage anthropology / Samuel J. Redman. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021014654 | ISBN 9780674979574 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Indians of North Amer i ca— Antiquities— Collection and preservation— History. | Cultural property— Protection— United States— History. | Anthropological museums and collections— United States— History. | Racism in anthropology— United States— History. | Cultural property— Repatriation— United States— History. | United States— Antiquities— Collection and preservation— History. Classification: LCC E77.9 .R43 2021 | DDC 970.01— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2021014654 In memory of my father, Jim Redman CONTENTS Prologue 1 1 The Birth of Salvage Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century 9 2 Building a Cultural Salvage Movement in the United States 45 3 The Federal Government and Salvage Anthropology 80 4 Salvaging Society through Art and Image 121 5 Cultural Salvage in California 155 6 Salvage Anthropology in the Modern World 194 Epilogue 232 Notes 243 Acknowl edgments 303 Index 307 PROPHETS AND GHOSTS
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