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Frank Speck
Born
Frank Gouldsmith Speck

(1881-11-08)November 8, 1881
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 6, 1950(1950-02-06) (aged 68)
Academic background
Education
  • Columbia University (BA, MA)
  • University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Main interestsAlgonquian and Iroquoian peoples

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples among the Eastern Woodland Native Americans of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.

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and a Smithsonian Institution report made by the early anthropologist, Frank Speck. Her niece, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, worked to preserve the language. Since...

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Before the Removal Era. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. Frank Speck, Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians (reprint), University of Nebraska Press...

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from his medical studies at Penn, he was influenced by anthropologist Frank Speck in his interest in Native American languages. Traveling to other universities...

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recorded a song in the Beothuk language for the American anthropologist Frank Speck. He was conducting field studies in the area. She said her father taught...

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Linguistics. At Pennsylvania he worked closely with another student of Boas, Frank Speck, and the two undertook work on Catawba in the summer of 1909. Also in...

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Fidelia Fielding

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Fielding's death, a relative, John Cooper, gave her diaries to Frank Speck for safekeeping. Speck later deposited them in George Gustav Heye's Heye Foundation/Museum...

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Catawba language

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anthropologist Frank Speck, who introduced West to the Catawba community. The Catawba told Speck that West was not Catawba, but Speck ignored them and...

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Machapunga

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Mattamuskeet Lake in present-day Hyde County. Early 20th-century ethnographer Frank Speck believed that the historical Machapunga and other Algonquian tribes in...

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Tutelo

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Tutelo stories to American ethnologists John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt and Frank Speck. Catawba Cheraw Moneton Occaneechi Saponi Sewee Waccamaw Ricky, Donald...

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Franz Boas

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students who were influential in the development of academic anthropology: Frank Speck (1908) who trained with Boas but received his PhD from the University...

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Jeff Speck is an American city planner, writer, and lecturer who is the principal at the urban design and consultancy firm, Speck Dempsey. He has authored...

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doi:10.2307/3316471. JSTOR 3316471. Speck, Frank G. (1934). Catawba Texts. New York: Columbia University Press. Speck, Frank G. (1913). "Some Catawba Texts...

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Pedee people

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disagreed with this theory. In the early twentieth century, anthropologist Frank Speck suggested that the name might derive from the Catawban word pi'ri, meaning...

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Native American flute

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early anthropologists such as Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Franz Boas, Frank Speck, Frances Densmore, and Francis La Flesche. A small portion of these recordings...

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Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands

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have gained state recognition through legislation at the state level. Frank Speck identified several key cultural traits of Southeastern Woodlands peoples...

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Frank Gehry

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2007). "MIT Sues Architect Frank Gehry Over Flaws at Stata Center". Berkshire Fine Arts. Retrieved August 30, 2011. Speck, Jeff (2012)Walkable City: How...

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Ralph Linton

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University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his master's degree studying with Frank Speck while undertaking additional archaeological field work in New Jersey...

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Patawomeck

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as did remnants of several other tribes. In 1928, the anthropologist Frank Speck wrote of the Native American population living around the original Patawomeck...

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Massachusett language

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England in 1923. The anthropologist and Eastern Woodlands Culture expert Frank Speck visited the Wampanoag of Mashpee and tried to document the language,...

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