Jason Schoonover FI' 86
Communication Director

Jason Schoonover

Jason Schoonover has been an ethnographic collector since 1978, having placed major collections in museums around the world, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Sankokan in Tenri Nara Japan, Canada’s Museum of Civilization and Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology where their second largest collections, after their primary West Coast Native art, are his Sri Lankan Devil Dance collections. His area of interest is Southeast Asia, including the Himalayas and Sri Lanka.

Besides writing extensively for newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and stage, he is the author of adventure novels, based on his experience, such as the international bestseller, Thai Gold, and its sequel, Opium Dream.

Jason splits his year between Bangkok and Saskatoon, Canada, from which he launches and leads canoe brigades onto northern Saskatchewan’s pristine 100,000 lakes and rivers each summer. Su Hattori has been his expedition partner since 1989.

Photo Album

With partner Su Hattori (canoe on right) canoeing old fur trade and exploration routes in Northern Saskatchewan	With Tantric Buddhist collection from Kathmandu With Ifugao collection from Banaue, Philippines, 1986 At Banaue, Philippines, 2005
Descending Peru's Colca Canyon
Dinosaur bone hunting in southern Alberta
The left half of this Devil Dance exorcist collection went to the Smithsonian, the right UBC. Taken at Colombo, Sri Lanka
Jason and headhunting friends, Banaue, Philippines