Alanson B. Skinner
Alanson B. Skinner | |
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| Born | September 7, 1885 |
| Died | August 17, 1925 (aged 39) |
Alanson Buck Skinner (September 7, 1885 – August 17, 1925) was an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographical work among Native American communities in the United States.
Skinner was born on September 7th, 1885 in Buffalo, New York. He was raised on Staten Island and received education at Columbia University and Harvard University.[1] After graduating from high school in 1907, Skinner worked for the American Museum of Natural History, National Museum of the American Indian, and Milwaukee Public Museum. He collected ethnographic information from the Cree, Saulteaux, Menominee, Ojibwe, Oneida, Ho-Chunk, Dakota, Bungi, and Seminole.[2]
Skinner died on August 17th, 1925, in an automobile accident near Tokio, North Dakota while on a field expedition among the Sioux.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 Harrington 1926, p. 275
- ↑ "Alanson Skinner". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- ↑ "A.B. SKINNER KILLED ON SCIENTIFIC TOUR; New York Anthropologist Dies in Dakota Auto Wreck While Hunting Indian Relics. SERVED HEYE FOUNDATION His Previous Researches Had Taken Him to the Everglades and All Over New York State". The New York Times. 19 August 1925. p. 21.
Bibliography
- Harrington, M. R. (1926). "Alanson Skinner". American Anthropologist. 28 (1): 275–280. JSTOR 660815.
Further reading
- Beck, David R. M. (2010). "Collecting among the Menomini: Cultural Assault in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin". American Indian Quarterly. 34 (2): 157–193. JSTOR 10.5250/amerindiquar.34.2.157.
- Hall, Robert L. (1997). An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252066023.
- Jacknis, Ira (2006). "A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective". American Indian Quarterly. 30 (3/4): 511–542. JSTOR 4139027.
- Sowry, Nathan (2025). Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496241924.