Certain aboriginal pottery from southern California Volume vol. 7 no. 1
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Notes On The Archeology Of Margarita Island, Venezuela
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Notes On The Archeology Of Margarita Island, Venezuela; Contributions From The Museum Of The American Indian, Heye Foundation; Contributions From The Heye Museum
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George Grant MacCurdy, Marshall Howard Saville, George Gustav Heye, George Hubbard Pepper, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy, Thomas Huckerby
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History; Caribbean & West Indies; General; Antilles, Lesser; Axes; Bahamas; Carib Indians; Chiriqui (Panama : Province); Ecuador; Elbow-stones; Folklore; Haiti; History / Caribbean & West Indies / General; Indian pottery; Indians; Indians of the West Indies; Jamaica; Margarita Island (Venezuela); Montague, New Jersey; Munsee Indians; Panama; Petroglyphs; Puerto Rico; Saint Vincent; Shell-mounds; Teeth; Trinidad; Venezuela; West Indies
Exploration of a Munsee Cemetery Near Montague, New Jersey
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Certain Artifacts From San Miguel Island, California (Classic Reprint)
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Other shell objects Ornaments of keyhole limpet shells Inlaid hair-ornament Inlaid handles Woven materials Intrusive objects Summary Bibliography, prepared by Prof. Frederick 31. T edgart of the University of California In ex.
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The Owner. The present report, therefore, embodies the results of the excavation by the joint expedition, together with some information published by C. C. Jones in 1873, and such knowledge respecting the earlier history of Nacoochee as has come down to us.
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George Gustav Heye was an American philanthropist and collector of Native American artifacts. He served as a director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Background
George Gustav Heye was born on September 16, 1874 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Carl Gustav Heye, a German immigrant who built a pipeline and oil refinery in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and Marie Antoinette Lawrence. When John D. Rockefeller bought his business, the elder Heye became head of the export branch of Standard Oil, amassing a fortune.
Education
Heye attended the Berkeley School in New York City and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Columbia University School of Mines in 1896.
Career
Heye worked briefly as an engineer in a variety of jobs across the country. In 1901 he joined with others to form the banking firm of Battles, Heye, and Harrison but remained active in the firm only until 1909. He severed all connections in 1914.
While working as a mining engineer in Arizona in 1897, Heye had encountered a Navajo dressed in a buckskin shirt. He acquired the shirt off the man's back. This item was the beginning of a collection numbering nearly four million pieces, the largest assembly of American Indian artifacts in the world. For most parts of the western hemisphere, the collection is the finest, surpassed only by specialists such as the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Heye, who amassed these materials with no formal training in anthropology, was personally familiar with virtually every item. The collection had grown to such size by 1903 that two New York ethnologists, George Hubbard Pepper and Marshall Howard Saville, encouraged Heye to acquire several hundred pre-Columbian pots discovered in New Mexico. His mother continued to add to the collection.
In the next two years items were acquired on expeditions to Mexico and Ecuador financed by the Heyes. It was the start of a twenty-five-year period of funding expeditions and collections of Indian artifacts from the entire western hemisphere. In 1908 Heye bought a separate building at 10 East 33rd Street, New York City, for the growing collection. It became known as the Heye Museum, though it was not open to the public. Heye devoted most of his energy to acquiring artifacts, and personally headed an expedition to Panama in 1912. Heye continued to excavate and to finance further expeditions, finding more storage room in the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.
When his mother died in 1915, Heye inherited the family estate and accelerated his collecting. He had half a million items and a pressing need for space. He and a friend, Archer Huntington, purchased a site and erected a building at 155th Street and Broadway. The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, was born. Heye donated his collection in 1916, with the stipulation that he was to be director, a position he retained until 1956. He also appointed the trustees.
The Heye Foundation during this period employed archaeologists and ethnologists for expeditions to Ecuador, much of the Caribbean, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and North America. The museum and foundation prospered in the 1920s as friends of Heye left million-dollar bequests. A library was added, and a center for research and study opened in the Bronx in 1926. The public was first admitted to the museum in 1922 but was not particularly encouraged to visit; the display area was cramped and dimly lighted.
Heye considered the rapidly growing collection as essentially his own, and had little interest in displaying it to others. In 1929 Heye went to Europe to acquire Indian items from collections there. After the Wall Street crash the Heye Foundation ceased to employ professional anthropologists and to finance further expeditions. Although Heye salvaged a considerable portion of his wealth, his collecting was limited.
Heye suffered a series of strokes beginning in 1955 and died in New York City.
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Membership
Heye was a member of American Anthropological Association, American Museum of Natural History, American Geographical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a president of The Explorers Club from 1922 to 1925 and 1928 to 1930.
Personality
Heye often clashed with professionals, they were dependent upon his collection and compromises were made. The professionals criticized his inadequate cataloging and could barely tolerate his disdain for potsherds, but they recognized his uncanny knowledge of what to collect.
Connections
Heye married Blanche Agnes Williams in January 1904; they had two children. Upon his return from Panama, he discovered his wife had left him; they were divorced in 1913.
In 1915 Heye married Thea Page, who shared his enthusiasm for collecting and joined him on many expeditions. They were particularly interested and involved in the excavation of Hawikuh Pueblo, New Mexico, between 1916 and 1923.
His son was killed in an auto accident in 1932, and his wife died three years later. In June 1936 he married Jessica Pebbles Standing. Although his wife did not share his interest in Indians, Heye spent more time in the museum, cataloging and remaining personally interested in each item. They divorced in 1940.