Helen Margaret Greene collection, 1920s-1987

Green, Esther Margaret, 1901-1986

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Helen Margaret (née Schweitzer-Stiefel) Greene (12 September 1901 – 01 July 1986) was born in Manhattan, New York. She attended Wellesley College for two years in 1924 but did not graduate. She married Milo E. Greene and had one son, Peter, in 1933. In 1951, Greene moved to Taos, New Mexico. Upon discovering that “American Indians were very much alive and a had a venerable, yet animated culture,” she began attending ceremonies, collecting arts & crafts, and learning the Hopi lan...

Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992

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Alice Marriott was born in Wilmett, Ill. in 1910. Her parents moved the family to Oklahoma City when she was still a young girl. She received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 1930. In 1935, she became field specialist for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Marriott spent some time living in the Santa Fe area, near San Ildefonso Pueblo. She integrated her first hand observations of Native Americans and Hispanics of the area into her books. In the 1980's, she finished the m...

Seaman, P. David

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P. David Seaman was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on January 31, 1932, the third of eleven children. His father Albert Leroy Seaman was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Connellsville, and his grandfather Albert Redfield Seaman was a minister in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. At the age of five, David Seaman was placed in the first of a series of foster homes under the auspices of the Fayette county Child Welfare Program. While fin...

Titiev, Mischa, 1901-1978

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Mischa Titiev (1901-1978) was a Russian born Anthropologist who received his PhD from Harvard University in 1935. Titiev was responsible for a number of significant publications in his field including Old Oraibi which was based on his field research of the Hopi Indians between 1932 and 1934. From the guide to the Mischa Titiev collection, 1933-1941, 1992, (The Museum of Northern Arizona) ...

Amerind Foundation

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Dockstader, Frederick J.

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Frederick J. Dockstader (1919-1998) was an art consultant, museum director, and silversmith from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Frederick J. Dockstader, 1970 June 16-July 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595140 Art consultant, museum director, silversmith; New York, N.Y. Born 1919. From the description of Frederick J. Dockstader interviews, 1970 June 16-July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185506 ...

Logan Museum of Anthropology

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