James Swan, Cha-Tic of the Northwest Coast: Drawings & Watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel Collection
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300133960 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Philip Burling said The illustrations are wonderful.. A very well-presented account of the work of collector of information about the Makah and their environment. The illustrations are wonderful.
In November 1852 James Swan moved to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington Territory. 115 drawings from his collection, donated to the Yale Collection of Western Americana by Franz and Kathryn Stenzel, are reproduced here, nearly all of them for the first time. Known as an avid correspondent and diarist (he kept a daily journal for the last 41 years of his life), Swan was also a talented draftsman who sketched many of the people he met, the places he visited, and the events he witnessed. The author of several books, he became the Smithsonian Institution's principal agent in the Northwest, collecting natural history and ethnographic objects from Gray's Harbor through the Alaskan panhandle. He lived among the Makah Indians of Neah Bay where he taught school and was among the f