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1001 Curious Things: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop And Native American Art,New
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For More Than One Hundred Years, Tourists And Residents Alike Have Flocked To Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Located On Seattles Waterfront. Here A Mummy Nicknamed Sylvester, A Collection Of Shrunken Heads From Ecuador, A Twoheaded Calf, And A Mermaid Preside Over Walls And Cases Crammed With An Incredible Jumble Of Souvenirs And Trinkets, Intermixed With Authentic Northwest Coast And Alaskan Eskimo Carvings, Baskets, Blankets, And Other Artworks. The Guestbook Records Visits By Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, And Queen Marie Of Rumania, Among Many Others.Ye Olde Curiosity Shop Was Founded In 1899 By Joseph E. 'Daddy' Standley, An Ohioborn Curio Collector Who Came To Seattle In The Late 1890S During The Yukon Gold Rush. Although Native American Material Vied For Space With Exotica From All Corners Of The Globe, It Soon Grew To Be The Mainstay Of The Shop, Which Became Identified With The Whalebones Displayed Outside And The 'Piles Of Old Eskimo Relics' Within. Also To Be Found Were Baskets, Moccasins, Ivory Carving From Alaska, Tlingit Spruce Root Baskets, Haida 'Jadeite' Totem Poles, Masks, Paddles, And Other Curiosities From The Northwest Coast. Indians From The Olympic Peninsula Brought Baskets, Coming Up To The Back Door Of The Shop In Their Canoes. Others, Originally From British Columbia But Now Living On The Flats Not Far From The Shop, Carved Miniature Totem Poles By The Hundreds And Fullsize Poles On Commission. Trading Companies Supplied Indian Curios From The Plains, Southwest, And California.An Art Historian Trained In The Classic Arts Of The Northwest Coast, Kate Duncan Became Interested In The History Of The Shop When She Learned That It Had Not Only Been An Active Participant In Seattles 1909 Alaskayukonpacific Exposition But Had Also Been A Major Source Of Important Northwest Coast Collections In Many Museums, Including, Among Others, The Royal Ontario Museum, The George G. Heye Collection (Now In The Smithsonians Museum Of The American Indian), The Washington State Museum, The Newark Museum, The Portland Art Museum, And The American Museum Of Natural History. Granted Full Access By The Present Owners Grandson And Greatgrandson Of 'Daddy' Standley To The Remarkably Complete Archives Maintained From The Time The Shop Opened, Duncan Has Provided A Fascinating Chapter In The History Of Seattle, Especially In Its Early Years, As Well As A Significant Contribution To The Literature On Tourist Arts And Collecting.
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