Swan, James G., 1818-1900
Contributed to
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- Summary
- James Gilchrist Swan was an American Indian agent in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, who was known as an authority on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, an Indian artifact collector on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, and for writing the first ethnography of the Makah tribal group, among whom he lived. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3]
- Born
- 1818-01-11 [2][3]
- Birth Place
- Medford, Mass. [2]
- Died
- 1900-05-18 [2][3]
- Death Place
- Port Townsend, Wash. [2]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [3]
- Indian agent [3]
- writer [3]
- wood engraver [3]
- meteorological observer [3]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [3]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Wikidata
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