James Thomas Hooper (1 September 1897 – 9 February 1971) was a British collector of ethnographic artifacts of the Inuit, Native American, Oceanic and African peoples.
Hooper was born in North Wraxall-Wiltshire[1] in 1897 and began collecting in 1912 when his father gave him a native spear.
Like Oldman, Hooper never left Great Britain to visit the cultures that created the material he enjoyed.
After his retirement, Hooper opened the Totems Museum in Arundel, Sussex, United Kingdom in a two-story building on the High Street.
In it, Hooper concentrates on the art of Polynesia, Melanesia, North Coast of America, Eskimo, West Africa and the Congo.
Art and Artifacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas: The James Hooper Collection was published in 1976 and featured 250 illustrations.