Boas Solicits Heye Collection for AMNH
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PrintAnthropologist Franz Boas suggests to George Gustav Heye in 1910 that he donate his collection of Native American artifacts to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Heye declines the offer and creates his own Heye Foundation, Museum of the American Indian in 1916.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Voice, April 8, 1986, p. 32.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1910
New York (N.Y.)