Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology, and is now known as the Department of Anthropology, at the National Museum of Natural History). In 1968, the related archives became the National Anthropological Archives.
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associatedWith | Adam, Lucien, 1833-1918. |
associatedWith | American Philosophical Society. |
associatedWith | Barnes, Mary Downing Sheldon, 1850-1898. |
associatedWith | Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. |
associatedWith | Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953. |
associatedWith | Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896. |
associatedWith | Buelna, Eustaquio, 1830-1907. |
associatedWith | Bushnell, David I. (David Ives), 1875-1941. |
associatedWith | Custer, Milo, 1880-1952. |
associatedWith | Eugenics Record Office . |
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