During two years of fieldwork in the American West in the 1880s, the Dutch anthropologist Hermann ten Kate (1858 1931) assembled a sizable collection of Native American artifacts. These pieces, ranging from utilitarian tools to exquisite works of art, are important especially because of their well-documented collection history and early date of acquisition. Some of the objects the vast majority of which are today housed in the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden represent the oldest preserved specimens of their kind. This catalog presents the complete collection and places the artifacts in...

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an "expert meeting" held in November 2007 at the National...