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Alberto Vojtěch Frič and his American collections at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg
Kotova, Elizaveta ; Křížová, Markéta (advisor) ; Brenišínová, Monika (referee)
The present thesis deals with Alberto Vojtěch Frič's relations with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg in the first decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on available archival and printed documents and secondary literature, it maps the contacts of A. V. Frič with the museum, the mechanisms of acquiring the collections (and the bureaucratic complications involved), as well as their actual presentation in the museum and use by Russian ethnologists. Firstly, the work briefly introduces Frič's biography with an emphasis on his expeditions to Latin America. During his journeys, Frič collected a great amount of ethnographic material, including photographs and souvenirs, which he then attempted to sell to museums. He sought financial support to organize his own expeditions to South America. He contacted various European scientific institutions, and finally established cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences. In total, the St. Petersburg Museum, being one of the departments of the Academy, acquired more than 2,000 objects and photographs collected by Frič. In addition to the collection items and correspondence, the museum archives have preserved accompanying materials (inventories of the objects sent, Frič's comments and explanatory notes). Through this case study,...
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