Schneebaum, Tobias

Tobias Schneebaum was born in 1922 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from the City College of New York (1943) and during World War II he served in the Army as a radar mechanic, and after the war he studied art under Tamayo, under whose suggestion he went to Mexico for three and a half years-painting, teaching and developing an increasing interest in archaeology and anthropology.

In 1955 he was granted a Fulbright Fellowship to study painting in Peru, and it was during this time that he encountered for the first time the world of uncivilized tribes that would become his passion. After a year in the Peruvian jungle, Schneebaum returned to civilization with stories that he recounted in his first book Keep the River on Your Right . In 1977 he received a degree in cultural anthropology from Goddard College, Vermont.

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