THE ETHOLEN COLLECTION. The Ethnographic Alaskan Collection of Adolf Etholen and His Contemporaries in the National Museum of Finland

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336 pages, 179 color and 402 b/w photographs, 4 drawings 11 maps. Hard board cover. A magnificent collection of Alaskan ethnographic material acquired in the first half of the 19th century by Adolf Etholen, a Finn who was an administrator in the Russian-American Co., is presented in this photograph-laden catalogue of the majority of these objects. Presently in the collection of the National Museum of Finland, the Northwest Coast and Eskimo objects Etholen collected--more than 1,400 are illustrated in 581 photographs--have never before been published and few have ever before been exhibited. A dazzling array of the finest artifacts those cultures produced 150-200 years ago, these objects are presented in large photographs with data provided for each object that appears in the photographs. N° de ref. del artículo 7842

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