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To: Gauguin who wrote (40276)	10/21/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

Yes... I was thinking that you are in the ideal place to study West Coast... I'm interested in the SW too... like the pottery, the Hopi kachinas, etc.. You've been to the Heard Museum I think... they have a great kachina display there. And as well, have you ever visited the ceramic museum at ASU in Tempe... they have a lot of excellent pottery there... quite a few black pottery pieces by Maria Martinez.. It seemed as though not too many people even know that the museum and its collection exist...which is a real shame. BTW ... have you every noticed how bizarre the collections of some small museums are? Very surprising what you can find in them. A few years ago I was doing a survey on native artifacts and the way in which they are displayed in regional museums. I visited a particular "town museum" and found this "curio cabinet" in their collection. It had been owned by a prominent doctor at the turn of the century. In the cabinet such "curiosities" as fossils; the broken-off fingers and noses of marble statues in Rome; the leg off of some type of reclining sofa at Pompeii;... and a number of Anasazi bowls...the pottery ones with the centers knocked out... which...(and you probably already know this)...usually indicates that they are "grave goods" which have been purposefully damaged in this way before being buried with their owners.... Anyhow, I think it's interesting how these "cabinets" are themselves seen as cultural objects... each like some kind of beast which has swallowed the objects of "the other" and amalgamated it into a "collection".... Well... enough of these ponderings.... G'night