Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967
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Name (Hebrew)
ספינדן, הרברט, 1879-1967
Name (Latin)
Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967
Other forms of name
Spinden, H. J. (Herbert Joseph), 1879-1967
Spinden, Herbert J. (Herbert Joseph), 1879-1967
Spinden, Herbert (Herbert Joseph), 1879-1967
Date of birth
1879-08-16
Date of death
1967-10-26
Gender
male
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- Herbert Joseph Spinden (1879-1967) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist and art historian who specialized in the study of Native American cultures of the US and Mesoamerica. Spinden was born in 1879 in Huron, a small settlement in the Dakota Territory. Spinden started Harvard University in 1902 and studied anthropology and archaeology. In the summer of 1905 he and a fellow student excavated a Mandan village in North Dakota and studied the language and culture of that tribe. They published a paper on the topic in 1906, Spinden's first publication. After receiving an A.B. degree in 1906, he continued his studies at Harvard where he specialized in Mayan art under the direction of Alfred Tozzer. He received a doctorate degree in 1909 after submitting his thesis, A Study of Mayan Art, which has been called a "brilliant analysis of the evolution of styles".He then worked American Museum of Natural History where he undertook archaeological studies in Mexico and Central America. He then curated the collection of the Peabody Museum at Harvard, before taking museum positions in Brooklyn and Buffalo. He also did ethnographic studies among the Nez Percé. In 1919 he published a study of Mayan calendrics giving a correlation between the Mayan calendar and the Gregorian calendar - a correlation which was nonetheless not widely accepted. ( (Wikipedia, viewed Nov.1, 2024:) )
- Songs of the Tewa, 1993:CIP t.p. (Herbert Joseph Spinden) pref. (b. 08-16-1879; d. 10-26-67)
- LC data base, 08-31-92(hdg.: Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967)