Henry Usher Hall
Henry Usher Hall (1876–1944) was an American
University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1915 to 1935.[1] He was instrumental in guiding the Museum's African collection in its early years.[2]
He accompanied Polish anthropologist
ornithologist, and Dora Curtis, artist.[3]
He conducted excavations in the Dordogne in 1923, and in 1936-37 he led an expedition to Sierra Leone, where he investigated the Sherbro people.[4] On his return from Sierra Leone, he published The Sherbro of Sierra Leone (1938), which included an account of the secret Poro society of the Sherbro men.[2]
References
- ISBN 0-7007-1001-9.
- ^ ISBN 0-924171-16-2.
- ^ Collins (1999), pp. 62-64.
- ^ Collins (1999), p. 81.
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