Robert Addison McKennan papers, 1928-1980.

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Robert Addison McKennan papers, 1928-1980.

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The Robert Addison McKennan papers include McKennan's anthropological research, field notes, writings, and photographs, as well as some personal and biographical material. His field notes and journals particularly record his work among the Tanana and Chandalar Kutchin people.

40 boxes (17 cu. ft.)

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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McKennan, Robert A. (Robert Addison), 1903-1982

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McKennan was born in Helena, Mont. in 1903 and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1933, after completing field research in northwestern Ariz. among the Walapai Indians and in Alaska among the Indians of the Upper Tanana River. In 1930 he became an instructor of sociology at Dartmouth College; he became an assistant professor in 1934, after spending the summer of 1933 doing field research among the Chandalar Kutchin in Alaska, and a full ...