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| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | 1 | Author: | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923- | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor anthropology Bryn Mawr College, 1948-1950; assistant instructor anthropology University of Pennsylvania, research secretary Behavioral Research Council, 1951-1955; research assistant professor University of Pennsylvania, 1952-1955, visiting associate professor, 1955-1961, professor, 1961, chairman, 1961-1971; Geraldine R. Segal professor social thought, 1980-1983, University professor, 1983-1988, professor emeritus, 1988- | |
| | | Title: | Six Nations, Wyandot, Shawnee, Delaware, and Ottawa Claims to Lands in Ohio
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 November 1953 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 2 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Review of "Indians of the United States: Four Centuries of Their History and Culture" by Clark Wissler
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 3 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | The Iroquois Confederacy in the Twentieth Century: A Case Study of the Theory of Lewis H. Morgan in "Ancient Society"
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1965 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: | Distribution list, (handwritten) | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 4 | Author: | Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor anthropology University of Buffalo, 1957-1960; assistant professor Mount Holyoke College, 1961-1965; assistant professor Temple University, 1965-1967, professor, 1977-1992, professor emeritus, 1992-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Mohawk
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1977] | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: | Draft | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 5 | Author: | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology and anthropology, University of Buffalo, 1927-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1930; assistant professor, anthropology, University of Michigan, 1930-1932, associate professor, 1932-1943, professor, 1943-1970, chairman of department, 1945-1957; visiting professor, anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1975; curator, anthropology, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1927-1930 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1944-1955, 1970 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching; John A. Noon; comments by Fenton on "The Expansion of the Scope of Science"; White writing biographical sketch of Goldenweiser for Dictionary of American Biography; personal. See also: Cairns, Huntington | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 6 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1944-1955, 1970 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching; John A. Noon; comments by Fenton on "The Expansion of the Scope of Science"; White writing biographical sketch of Goldenweiser for Dictionary of American Biography; personal. See also: Cairns, Huntington | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 7 | Author: | Hoebel, E. (Edward) Adamson, 1906-1993 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor sociology, New York University, 1929-1935, associate professor sociology and anthropology, 1935-1941, associate professor, 1941-1948; lecturer; visiting instructor to various universities; professor, head University of Utah, 1948-1954; professor, chairman University of Minnesota, 1954-1968, Regent's professor, 1966-1972, professor law, 1972-1981; emeritus, 1972-1993 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between E. Adamson Hoebel and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946-1953, 1968 | | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching course; lecture/seminar; invitation to Third Conference on Iroquois Research; "The Kalingas" by R.F. Barton; comments on papers; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 8 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between E. Adamson Hoebel and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946-1953, 1968 | | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching course; lecture/seminar; invitation to Third Conference on Iroquois Research; "The Kalingas" by R.F. Barton; comments on papers; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 9 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1950 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | The Bulletin publication issues; anthropological work/fieldwork; personal. See also Philadelphia Anthropological Society and American Anthropologists | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 10 | Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1968-1977 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | AAA; Mead's books; informing Fenton of the meeting of the Advisory Committee to the US Delegation to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences at the AAA meeting in Toronto, 1972; asking about leads to gather photographs of Iroquois retired steel workers for book with Ken Heyman - and Fenton's response | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 11 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1968-1977 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | AAA; Mead's books; informing Fenton of the meeting of the Advisory Committee to the US Delegation to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences at the AAA meeting in Toronto, 1972; asking about leads to gather photographs of Iroquois retired steel workers for book with Ken Heyman - and Fenton's response | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 12 | Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1940-1947, 1967 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Iroquois information for professor at Yale; thanking for support of application for a commission in the Naval Reserve for the division of occupied areas; Murdock's work in Micronesia; teaching; personal. See also Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 13 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1940-1947, 1967 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Iroquois information for professor at Yale; thanking for support of application for a commission in the Naval Reserve for the division of occupied areas; Murdock's work in Micronesia; teaching; personal. See also Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 15 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1937-1939 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Thanking Fenton for reprint of "Seneca Society of Faces"; Iroquois work and papers; peers; academics. Fenton collection also includes notes on Olbrechts writings | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 16 | Author: | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | | | | | Anthropologist, psychologist, museum curator. Assistant, psychology. Indiana University, 1895-1897; instructor, psychology and education, Ohio College, 1897-1899; assistant, psychology, Columbia University, 1899-1900; instructor, pedagogy, New York University, 1901-1902; assistant, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1902-1905, curator, 1905-1907, curator of anthropology, 1907-1942, editor, anthropology publications, 1907-1942, emeritus curator, 1943-1947; assistant, anthropology, Columbia University, 1903-1904, lecturer, 1904-1909; professor, Institute for Human Relations, Yale University, 1924-1940, emeritus professor, 1940-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 17 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 18 | Author: | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, lecturer, and instructor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1910-1919; lecturer, Rand School of Social Science, 1915-1929; lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York, 1919-1926; instructor, sociology, University of Oregon Extension, Portland, 1930-1932, professor of thought and culture, 1932-1939. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1912-1934 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork and field notes on Iroquois; Deganawidah work; John Gibson's death; reports; inquiry on Iroquois toteism; peers | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 19 | Author: | Hallowell, Alfred Irving, 1892-1974 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1922-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1936, associate professor, 1936-1939, professor, 1939-1944, department chairman, 1941-1944; professor, Northwestern University, 1944-1947; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1971, professor of anthropology, department of psychiatry, Medical School, and curator, social anthropology, University Museum, 1956-1971; emeritus professor and curator, 1971-1974. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1942-1972 | | | | Extent: | 25 letters | | | | Abstract: | Noon's thesis and its publication; review of "Some Psychological Characteristics of the Northeastern Indians"; recommending Fenton to continue as member of the Committee on International Cooperation in Anthropology; comment on editorial of J.H. Steward in Social Science Research Council Area Newsletter Number 1, March 1949; asking Fenton to serve as representative of the AAA to the American Documentation Institute - accepts; fieldwork; comments from Fenton on Frank Speck's obituary Hallowell wrote for the "American Anthropologist"; asking Hallowell to join faculty for a year at SUNY-Albany; asking Hallowell to lecture on a topic he is working on, plans for the visit, and comments on Hallowell's lecture; "Crossing Cultural Boundaries" and Speck; translation of Lafitau; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 20 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1942-1972 | | | | Extent: | 25 letters | | | | Abstract: | Noon's thesis and its publication; review of "Some Psychological Characteristics of the Northeastern Indians"; recommending Fenton to continue as member of the Committee on International Cooperation in Anthropology; comment on editorial of J.H. Steward in Social Science Research Council Area Newsletter Number 1, March 1949; asking Fenton to serve as representative of the AAA to the American Documentation Institute - accepts; fieldwork; comments from Fenton on Frank Speck's obituary Hallowell wrote for the "American Anthropologist"; asking Hallowell to join faculty for a year at SUNY-Albany; asking Hallowell to lecture on a topic he is working on, plans for the visit, and comments on Hallowell's lecture; "Crossing Cultural Boundaries" and Speck; translation of Lafitau; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
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