Helen Heffron Roberts in CA, 1926, by J. P. Harrington. Likely shot during recording sessions of the now extinct Konomihu language in Somes Bar, CA.
Born
(1888-06-12)June 12, 1888
Chicago, Illinois
Died
March 26, 1985(1985-03-26) (aged 96)
North Haven, Connecticut
Nationality
American
Alma mater
American Conservatory of Music, Columbia University
Occupation(s)
Anthropologist, ethnomusicologist
Helen Heffron Roberts (1888–1985) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ethnomusicologist. Her work included the study of the origins and development of music among the Jamaican Maroons, and the Puebloan peoples of the American southwest. Her recordings of ancient Hawaiian meles are archived at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Roberts was a protege of Alfred V. Kidder and Franz Boas.
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