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Helen H. Roberts

(Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985)

Helen Heffron Roberts in 1926 by J. P. Harrington, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution

Helen Heffron Roberts (1888–1985) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ethnomusicologist. Her work included the study of the origins and development of music among the Jamaican Maroons, and the Puebloan peoples of the American southwest. Her recordings of ancient Hawaiian meles are archived at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Roberts was a protege of Alfred V. Kidder and Franz Boas. (From Wikipedia)

More about Helen H. Roberts:

Associated author:

Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959

Books by Helen H. Roberts:

Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #29; Honolulu: The Museum, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985, contrib.: Jamaica Anansi Stories, by Martha Warren Beckwith (HTML with sheet-music images at sacred-texts.com)

Additional books by Helen H. Roberts in the extended shelves:

Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Coiled basketry in British Columbia and surrounding region (Washington, 1928), also by Herman Karl Haeberlin, Franz Boas, and James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Eskimo songs : songs of the Copper Eskimos (F.A. Acland, 1925), also by Diamond Jenness and Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Folk-games of Jamaica (Vassar College, 1922), also by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Jamaica Anansi stories (American Folk-lore Society, 1924), also by Martha Warren Beckwith and Alexander Street Press (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985, contrib.: Jamaica Anansi stories, by Martha Warren Beckwith (Gutenberg ebook)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Jamaica folk-lore (The American folk-lore society, 1928), also by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Possible survivals of African song in Jamaica. (G. Schirmer, inc., 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: Songs of the Copper Eskimos (F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985: A study of folk song variants based on field work in Jamaica. ([New York, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)

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