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Japanese Collections

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Japanese Collections is a 1922 guide by Helen C. Gunsaulus (1886-1954) to the Japanese holdings of the Field Museum in Chicago, where she served as assistant curator of Japanese ethnology. The booklet walks visitors through the Frank W. Gunsaulus Hall, named for her father, covering arms and armour, prints, lacquer, and the objects of daily Japanese life. Museum guides of this period are now read as records of how American institutions first presented Asian cultures.

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Helen C. Gunsaulus

Helen C. Gunsaulus specialized in Japanese prints, decorative arts, and ethnology during a career in Chicago museums. After working as assistant curator of Japanese ethnology at the Field Museum, she joined the Art Institute of Chicago during 1926, eventually becoming curator of the Clarence Buckingham Print Collection.

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