Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum - Hardcover

Margaret Young-Sánchez (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0914738682 ISBN 13: 9780914738688

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the spring of 1849 young Philadelphia physician S. W. Woodhouse, an avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions, one in 1849 and another in 1850, to survey the Creek-Cherokee boundary in Indian Territory. A keen observer of frontier life and society, Woodhouse wrote down in three journals detailed entries on his travels, including information on the flora and fauna as well as his impressions of the places he passed and their people, notably early Indian Territory personalities such as the McIntoshes and the Perrymans of the Creek Indians; Elijah Hicks of the Cherokees; Tallee and Clermont III of the Osages; and Oh-ha-wah-kee of the Comanches. To aid the modern reader, editors John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead have supplied a detailed introduction and extensive, clarifying notes.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Young-Sánchez is Chief Curator and Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum. She curated the collections of pre-Columbian, African, Oceanic, and American Indian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art for ten years, before moving to Denver in 1999. Dr. Young-S nchez earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology at Yale University and a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. Her exhibition Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca opened in Denver in 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914738682
• ISBN 13: 9780914738688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192