Goodwin, Grenville, 1907-1940

Grenville Goodwin was a self-taught ethnographer who worked among the Western Apaches in the 1930s, assembling what is still the single largest body of documentation anywhere on the pre- and early-reservation history, life-ways, and material culture of that group.

From the guide to the Grenville Goodwin Papers, 1929-1939, (Arizona State Museum Archives)

Biographical note: Grenville Goodwin, anthropologist, worked with the Western Apache Indians during the 1930s. John Rope, or Tlol-dil-xil, was an Apache Indian living on the San Carlos Indian Reservation at the time of the interview in 1935; he was an Apache Scout in the early 1880s.

From the description of Reminiscences from the life of John Rope, 1935-1937. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 49938814