Theodoor de Booy
Theodoor de Booy | |
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Royal Naval Institute | |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
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Elizabeth Hamilton Smith
(m. 1909) |
Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy (December 5, 1882 – February 18, 1919) was a Dutch-born American archaeologist.
Biography
De Booy was born as son of a
Royal Naval Institute. At the age of 23, he migrated to the United States where he married Elizabeth Hamilton Smith on March 29, 1909.They had two children.[1]
In 1916 he became an American citizen. In 1911 he went to the Bahamas with his wife. During their archaeological fieldwork in the
Arawak culture.[2]
He died from influenza in his home in Yonkers, New York, on February 18, 1919.[2][3]
Alexander Wetmore named the extinct Antillean cave rail (Nesotrochis debooyi) after de Booy.[4]
Selected works
- 1913: Lucayan Artifacts from the Bahamas
- 1915: Pottery from Certain Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies
- 1915: Certain West-Indian Superstitions Pertaining to Celts
- 1916: Notes on the Archaeology of Margarita Island, Venezuela
- 1918: Certain Archaeological Investigations in Trinidad, British West Indies
- 1918: The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands
- 1919: Indian Notes and Monographs Volume 1, No. 2: Santo Domingo Kitchen-Midden and Burial Ground
- 1920: Indian Notes and Monographs Vol. X, No. 3: An Illinois Quilled Necklace
- 1926: Onder de Motilone's van de Sierre de Perija (Venezuela)
References
- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XVII. James T. White & Company. 1920. pp. 313–314. Retrieved January 3, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ JSTOR 660270.
- Evening Public Ledger. February 19, 1919. p. 6. Retrieved January 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ISBN 9780919880078. Retrieved January 3, 2021 – via Google Books.
External links
Media related to Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy at Wikimedia Commons
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