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Ewers, John C.
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John Canfield Ewers, 1909-1997, was born in the USA. He studied under Clark Wissler at Yale University, and became an ethnologist who specialized in the Blackfoot (Blackfeet). In the early 1940s he helped establish the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana. After serving in the Second World war he was hired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as an ethnologist. In 1951 he undertook field work on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta. At the Smithsonian he became the director of what became the Museum of History and Technology, and subsequently worked as senior ethnologist. He retired in 1978. His books include Plains Indian Painting (1939), The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), and The Blackfeet : Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (1958).
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