Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997
Contributed to
nf06The Blackfeet
The BlackfeetBook 1958
nf06The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture, with comparative material from other western tribes
The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture, with comparative material from other western tribesBook 1955
nf04The bear cult among the Assiniboin and their neighbors of the northern Plains
The bear cult among the Assiniboin and their neighbors of the northern Plainsarticle 1955
nf04The Assiniboin horse medicine cult
The Assiniboin horse medicine cultarticle 1956
nf04Assiniboin antelope-horn headdresses
Assiniboin antelope-horn headdressesarticle 1982
- Summary
- John Canfield Ewers was an American ethnologist and museum curator. Known for his studies on the art and history of the American Plains Indians, he was described by The New York Times as one of his country's "foremost interpreters of American Indian culture." Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1909-07-21 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Cleveland, Ohio [2]
- Cleveland [4]
- Died
- 1997-05-07 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Arlington, Va. [2]
- Arlington County [4]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- ethnologist [4]
- Employer
- Smithsonian Institution [4]
- National Museum of American History [4]
- Educated at
- Dartmouth College [4]
- Yale University [4]
- Country of Education
- United States [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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