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Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artefacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. The purchases and expeditions shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. All of these are reflected in this lavishly illustrated volume.
An intriguing array of personalities - from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors - weave through the book. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist.
World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship also appear. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colourful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Map of the Mediterranean and the Near East
1 Introduction
2 The Backdrop: An Overview of Early American Museums
3 Francis W. Kelsey: Scholar, Collector, Leader
A Brief Biography
Professor Kelsey's Acquisitions
Birth of an Archaeology Museum in Ann Arbor
4 What Comes Home from the Field (1924-1963)
Excavations as Collection-Building Missions
Pre-World War II Excavations
Expeditions of a Different Order: Post-World War II
5 The Passionate and the Curious, Part I (1893-1927): Collections Acquired in the F. W. Kelsey Years
The De Criscio Collection
The Dennison Collection
The Marburg (ex-Gottschalk) Collection
The Todd Collection
The Djehutymose Coffin and Related Artifacts
The Askren Collection
The Petrie Gift
The Barosso Watercolors
6 The Passionate and the Curious, Part II (1928-2013):Collections Acquired by the Kelsey Museum
The Cesnola Collection
The Van Deman Collection
The Bay View Collection
The Gillman Collection
The Goudsmit Collection
The Waterman Collection
The Bonner Collection and Related Corpora
The Adams (ex-Herzfeld) Collection of Late Prehistoric Stamp Seals
Individual Acquisitions by Purchase, 1970s-1990s
7 Select Categories of Artifacts
Textiles
Coins
Glass
Fine Art Photography and Prints
8 Collectors, Dealers, Authenticity, and Ethical Quandaries
Collectors and Dealers
Questions of Authenticity
Ethical Quandaries
Appendix Antiquities Legislation
Simplified Timelines for Kelsey Collections
Notes
Works Cited
Concordance of Museum Object Accession Numbers to Figure Numbers
General Index
About the Authors
