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Swanton, John Reed

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Swanton, John Reed (1873–1958) anthropologist, folklorist; born in Gardiner, Maine. He pioneered ethnohistorical research techniques while working for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1900–44). He published prolifically; among his most important works are Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley (1911), Indians of the Southeastern United States (1946), and studies of the Tlingit (1908) and Caddo (1942) Indians. He won the Viking Fund Medal.

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