| | 2 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Gordon Marsh and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | Iowa | | | | Dates: | 2 March 1936 - 17 May 1942 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | 16 letters (10 to Boas, 6 to Marsh). Fieldwork; linguistics; Iowa language; personal; miscellaneous. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Personal matters | |
| 3 | Author: | Marsh, Gordon H. (Rev. Priestmonk Innocent), b. circa 1915 | | | | | Linguist, priest | |
| | | Title: | Materials for a Study of the Iowa Indian Language
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Iowa | | | | Dates: | Circa 1940s | | | | Extent: | 1000 leaves of notes, reprints; lists; 4000 cards; 75 field notebooks; 11 letters; photographs | | | | Abstract: | Correspondents include Robert Lowie, Ruth Benedict, H.W. Dorsey, Walter Dyk. Iowa language texts and translations; grammatical notes; parts of speech and notes on Iowa, Winnebago, Otoe, Ponca, and others; folk-tales in translation. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, X4a.2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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