linguist John Peabody Harrington

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American linguist anthropologist ethnographer human linguist

John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his exhaustive documentation of Native American languages and cultures in the early 20th century.

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Label	Occurrences
linguist J. P. Harrington	2
linguist John Peabody Harrington canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American linguist ⓘ anthropologist ⓘ ethnographer ⓘ human ⓘ linguist ⓘ
affiliation	Bureau of American Ethnology ⓘ surface form: Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1884-04-29 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1961-10-21 ⓘ
educatedAt	Stanford University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
employer	Bureau of American Ethnology ⓘ Smithsonian Institution ⓘ
familyName	Harrington ⓘ
fieldOfWork	American Indian ethnology ⓘ Native American linguistics ⓘ anthropology ⓘ ethnography ⓘ linguistics ⓘ
fullName	John Peabody Harrington ⓘ
givenName	John ⓘ
hasGender	male ⓘ
knownFor	exhaustive documentation of Native American languages ⓘ extensive ethnographic field notes on Native American cultures ⓘ work on endangered and nearly extinct Native American languages ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
notableFor	amassing hundreds of thousands of pages of linguistic and ethnographic notes ⓘ recording Native American oral literature and place names ⓘ use of detailed phonetic transcription in fieldwork ⓘ
notableWork	documentation of Algonquian languages ⓘ documentation of Athabaskan languages ⓘ documentation of Chumashan languages ⓘ documentation of Karuk language ⓘ documentation of Luiseño language ⓘ documentation of Mojave language ⓘ documentation of Obispeño Chumash language ⓘ documentation of Rumsen Ohlone language ⓘ documentation of Salinan language ⓘ documentation of Seri language ⓘ documentation of Tanoan languages ⓘ documentation of Yuchi language ⓘ documentation of Yuma languages ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Waltham, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath	San Diego, California, United States ⓘ
workLocation	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Great Plains ⓘ Pacific Northwest ⓘ Southern United States ⓘ surface form: Southeastern United States southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: Southwestern United States

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ohlone languages → documentedBy → linguist John Peabody Harrington ⓘ

Cupan → studiedBy → linguist John Peabody Harrington ⓘ

this entity surface form: linguist J. P. Harrington

Chimariko people → documentationBy → linguist John Peabody Harrington ⓘ

this entity surface form: linguist J. P. Harrington