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Bureau of American Ethnology
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Bureau_of_American_Ethnology
GPTKB entity
Statements (28)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:government_agency
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved
1965
gptkbp:focus
anthropology
archaeology
linguistics
ethnology
gptkbp:foundedBy
gptkb:John_Wesley_Powell
gptkbp:headquartersLocation
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Bureau of American Ethnology
gptkbp:inception
1879
gptkbp:mission
to study the indigenous peoples of the Americas
gptkbp:notableMember
gptkb:Alice_Cunningham_Fletcher
gptkb:Franz_Boas
gptkb:John_Peabody_Harrington
gptkb:Frank_Hamilton_Cushing
gptkb:James_Mooney
gptkb:William_Henry_Holmes
gptkb:Matthew_Stirling
gptkb:Frederick_Webb_Hodge
gptkbp:notablePublication
gptkb:Handbook_of_American_Indians_North_of_Mexico
Annual Reports
Bulletins
gptkbp:parentOrganization
gptkb:Smithsonian_Institution
gptkbp:replacedBy
gptkb:Smithsonian_Office_of_Anthropology
gptkbp:significantEvent
merged with Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology in 1965
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:James_Mooney
gptkbp:bfsLayer
5