By Douglas Cole
The heyday of anthropological accumulating at the Northwest Coast came about among 1875 and the nice melancholy. The scramble for skulls and skeletons, poles, canoes, baskets, banquet bowls, and mask went on till it appeared that just about every little thing no longer nailed down or hidden used to be long past. The interval of such a lot excessive gathering at the coast coincided with the expansion of anthropological museums, which mirrored the belief that point was once operating out and that civilization was once pushing the indigenous humans to the wall, destroying their fabric tradition or even extinguishing the local inventory itself.
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