Gene Weltfish
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American anthropologist and historian
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- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
- Masters Anthropology Columbia University
- Bachelors Anthropology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gene Weltfish 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.
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