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To: Gauguin who wrote (40273)	10/21/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Yes, it is amazing. The whole history of the collection of West Coast objects is very odd.... Do you know much about it? Like some kind of wild pillaging campaign by agents of museums in several countries. I remember being at a lecture when one of the curators of the Crossroads exhibit was discussing his visit to select objects that were in storage in Russia. He went into a sort of warehouse room where there were a couple of dozen "walrus hunting hats" sort of tossed into laundry baskets, sitting on a shelf below a window with broken glass, and with snowflakes falling on them... If you know much about those hats..worn in the Aleutian area by kayakers when out hunting on the ocean... well, good examples of those hats would probably be valued upwards of 10K apiece... Then there were the "whale spirit poles"... now that is a very strange story as well... spirited away to the Smithsonian... Poor sad looking things removed from the whale shrine on an island... to reside in cabinets in storage on the other side of North America... hmmm... all very disconcerting... ;-}>