Lila Morris O'Neale
American cultural anthropologist
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- PhD Anthropology Stanford University
- Masters Anthropology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lila Morris O'Neale was an American anthropologist and historian of textiles. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931 for her research on prehistoric textiles in Peru. Early life and education Lila Morris O'Neale was born in Buxton, North Dakota, the daughter of George Lester O'Neale and Carrie Higgins O'Neale. She moved with her family to San Jose, California as a girl. She trained as a teacher, like her mother before her; she attended the state teachers college in San Jose, and earned an A. B. at Stanford University ; she completed a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1916. In 1926, she left a university job to pursue graduate studies in decorative arts at the University of California at Berkeley. She earned a master's degree in 1927 with a thesis on ancient Peruvian fabrics, and in 1930 was granted a Ph.D. in anthropology from Berkeley, at age 44, for a fieldwork study of the basketry methods of California Native American women weavers. Her dissertation project, "Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers", was overseen by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, who remained a supportive colleague.
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