James Teit
Illustration — Portrait of James Teit James Alexander Teit (15 April 1864 — 30 October 1922) was an anthropologist, photographer and guide who worked with Franz Boas to study Interior Salish First Nations peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He led expeditions throughout British Columbia and made many contributions towards native ethnology. He also worked with Edward Sapir of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1911.
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James Teit
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- 1864 · Shetland Islands.
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- anthropologist · photographer · ethnologist
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- Person of National Historic Significance
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Illustration — Portrait of James Teit James Alexander Teit (15 April 1864 — 30 October 1922) was an anthropologist, photographer and guide who worked with Franz Boas to study Interior Salish First Nations peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He led expeditions throughout British Columbia and made many contributions towards native ethnology. He also worked with Edward Sapir of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1911.
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1864
James Teit born at Shetland Islands.
1922
James Teit died.
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In the later part of his life Teit worked tirelessly with the native people to preserve their human rights, as discussed by Wendy Wickwire in her work At the Bridge. Teit was born in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland but immigrated to Canada and married a Nlaka'pamux woman named Susanna Lucy Antko. It was through his wife that he became knowledgeable of the culture and language of the Nlaka'pamux people. After his wife's death Teit moved to the small town of Spences Bridge, British Columbia. While living there he married Josephine Morens. Together they had six children: Erik 1905, Inga 1907, Magnus 1909, Rolf 1912, Sigurd 1915, and Thorald 1919. Inga and Erik are buried in the Morens family graveyard with their baby brother. James and Josephine are buried in Merritt B.C.
• AMNH Digital Repository. • AMNH Digital Repository. • AMNH Digital Repository. • AMNH Digital Repository. • Teit, James A. (1912). "On Tahltan (Athabaskan) Work, 1912." Summary Report of the Geological Survey of Canada 1912. (1914) Ottawa, Department of Mines. p. 484-487.GEOSCAN. • Haeberlin, H. K., Teit, James A., Roberts, Helen H., and Boas, Franz. (1930). "Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region." Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1927-1928. Vol. 41, p. 441-522. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. Description of whole report by archive.org. • Teit, James A. (1930). "Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia." Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1927-1928. Vol. 45, p. 441-522. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. Description of whole report by archive.org. • Teit, James A. (1930). "The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus." Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1927-1928. Vol. 45, p. 23-396. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. Description of whole report by archive.org. • Teit, James A. (1930). "Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia." Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1927-1928. Vol. 45, p. 397-439. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. Description of whole report by archive.org.
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- 1.About N'laka'pamux Basketry and the work of James Alexander Teit (1864–1922) - Township of Langley
- 2.James Alexander Teit - historymuseum.ca
- 3.Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: La mythologie primitive. Le monde mythique des Australiens et des Papous. Félix Alcan, Paris 1935 (online)
- 4.vgl. At the Bridge: James Teit & an Anthropology of Belonging (Wandy Wickwire) - Youtube-Video
- 5.Teit, James Alexander - National Historic Person. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations.
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