Bureau of American Ethnology

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United States federal agency research institution

The Bureau of American Ethnology was a U.S. government research institution, founded in the late 19th century, dedicated to the systematic study and documentation of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Aliases (2)

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin ×1
Bureau of Ethnology ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States federal agency → research institution →
alsoKnownAs	BAE →
archivesAt	National Anthropological Archives → Smithsonian Institution Archives →
country	United States of America →
director	J. Walter Fewkes → John Wesley Powell → Matthew W. Stirling → William Henry Holmes →
dissolved	1965 →
employed	Alice Cunningham Fletcher → Frank Hamilton Cushing → Franz Boas → Frederick Webb Hodge → James Mooney → John R. Swanton →
fieldOfWork	anthropology → archaeology → ethnology → folklore studies → linguistics →
foundedAs	Bureau of Ethnology →
foundedBy	John Wesley Powell →
hasPart	Archaeological research division → Ethnological research division → Linguistic research division → Mound Exploration Division →
hasPublication	Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology → Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology → Bureau of American Ethnology Anthropological Papers →
headquartersLocation	Washington, D.C. →
inception	1879 →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	District of Columbia →
mainSubject	American Indian archaeology → American Indian languages → Indigenous peoples of the Americas → Native American cultures →
mission	collection of ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological data → documentation of Native American cultures → systematic study of Indigenous peoples of the Americas →
notableWork	Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports → Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico → Indian Land Cessions in the United States →
operatedBy	Smithsonian Institution →
parentOrganization	Smithsonian Institution →
partOf	Smithsonian Institution →
replacedBy	Smithsonian Office of Anthropology →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Handbook of American Indian Languages → Handbook of the Indians of California →	publisher
Edward Sapir →	employer
Bureau of American Ethnology ("Bureau of Ethnology") →	foundedAs
Handbook of American Indian Languages ("Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin") →	publicationSeries