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Gene Weltfish

(Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980)

Gene Weltfish (born Regina Weltfish) (August 7, 1902 – August 2, 1980) was an American anthropologist and historian working at Columbia University from 1928 to 1953. She had studied with Franz Boas and was a specialist in the culture and history of the Pawnee people of the Midwest Plains. Her 1965 ethnography, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, is considered the authoritative work on Pawnee culture to this day. (From Wikipedia)

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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948

Books by Gene Weltfish:

Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: The Races of Mankind (public affairs pamphlet #85; New York: Public Affairs Committee, c1943), also by Ruth Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Gene Weltfish in the extended shelves:

Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: Caddoan texts, Pawnee, South Band dialect (G. E. Stechert, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust)
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: The origins of art. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1953) (page images at HathiTrust)
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: The races of mankind (Public Affairs Committee, 1943), also by Ruth Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: The races of mankind (Public Affairs Committee, 1961), also by Ruth Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980: Report on archaeology of southern Chihuahua ([Denver], 1940), also by Robert M. Zingg (page images at HathiTrust)

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