The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artifacts.

NY, Praeger 1971. Quarto publisher's cloth; 360pp, hundreds of photo illustrations. Loosely inserted is an article on the ethnographic forger and thief James Little.The dedication copy inscribed by Roland Force to "Estelle Fuller with enduring gratitude". Fuller's collection went to the Field Museum in 1958 and by the time this book appeared Fuller himself was a decade dead. I suppose Estelle Cleverly knew what she was getting herself into when Alfred Fuller "proposed to his wife beside his favorite object in the British Museum". But you wonder how she felt when he "cut their honeymoon short to attend an ethnographic auction" and then "every day from noon until three o’clock in the morning, Fuller arranged and rearranged his items" (from notes about Fuller on the Field Museum site). Was he so anxious to find a permanent home for his collection to save it from the well known 'widow's revenge' that often sees a husband's first love go into the bonfire? *This item might cost more to post than quoted by abe.…