SESSION 2.1: The James Hepburn Northwest Coast Collection at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• Main Author: Fisher, Lydia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ TRU Library 2019
• Subjects: Fort Simpson; Metlakatla; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.tru.ca/bcstudies/may2/program/7

This presentation introduces the James Hepburn Northwest Coast collection held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, England. James Hepburn (1811-1869) was a naturalist and collector based in Victoria and San Francisco who undertook ethnographic collecting on the HMS Devastation...