The Rise and Fall of the Bureau of American Ethnology
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PrintTraces history of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian, from its founding in 1876 under John Wesley Powell, through its expansion in the early twentieth century, to its merger with the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology in the 1960s. Closes with observation that the Smithsonian's voluntary repatriation of Native American human remains and sacred objects was aided by the careful research and documentation of the early BAE anthropologists.
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Journal of the Southwest 41, no. 3 (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Autumn 1999
United States
Number of pages: 14; Page numbers: 283-296