L’artisanat touristique du Sud-Ouest des États-Unis. L’exemple des objets collectés par Alphonse Pinart à Santa Fe, à la fin du xixe siècle

• Main Author: Éloïse Galliard
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: École du Louvre 2014-10-01
• Series: Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cel/400

In 1881 the linguist and collector Alphonse Pinart travelled to Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico. In the American South-West city, where incoming settler population were growing, tourism and the acculturation of the local Amerindian populations, a merchant by the name of Aaron Gold sold small ceramic figurines made by Pueblo Indians for the souvenir trade. The trade in curios, Amerindian objects for tourists, had just begun and Alphonse Pinart succumbed to it. This article examines the phenomenon of curios in the South-Western United States, a cultural phenomenon born of the meeting of Amerindians, merchants and tourists. It also presents the important collection of Pueblo tourist objects brought back to France by Alphonse Pinart and now in the Musée du Quai Branly.