William Farabee rides a saddled water buffalo on Marajo Island, Brazil, 1914. William Curtis Farabee (1865–1925) is one of the great forgotten American explorers and anthropologists. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1903, conducting his first expedition to Peru in …

William Curtis Farabee (1865–1925), the second individual to obtain a doctorate in physical anthropology from Harvard University, engaged in a wide range of anthropological work during his time as a professor at Harvard and then as a researcher at the University Museum, Philadelphia, but is best known for his work in human genetics and his ...

William Curtis Farabee (1865-1925), anthropologist and ethnologist, University of Pennsylvania Museum.

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In 1912 Dr. Farabee became curator of the American section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (SIXTH PICTURE) at a time when the museum began its South American work. In the following year he left Philadelphia for three years’ work in the northern parts of the Guianas and Peru. (SEVENTH PICTURE of him in 1914 in Brazil.)

In addition to his field notes, Farabee sent back to the museum a significant collection of native artifacts, as well as drawings and photographs. Artifacts from the Amazon expedition were exhibited at the University Museum in 1917 (again in 1927).

Sep 2, 2007 · Farabee took this photo of an anaconda stretched across a fallen tree. William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and ...

During the period when Dr. Farabee was Curator of the Section of American Archaeology and Ethnology in the University Museum, he received many honours and distinctions. Among them were the gold medal of the Philadelphia Geographical Society and the gold medal of the Explorers Club of New York.

He made detailed drawings of Inca and pre-Inca ruins in the Pisco and lea valleys and at Lake Titicaca; secured magnificent collections of pottery and textiles through excavations in the Nazca Valley, at Sabania, Pisco, and Puntillo; and took notes for a comprehensive study of the Araucanian Indians of central Chile.

The minting of Farabee’s Ph.D in 1903 situates him within the first wave of profes- sional American anthropologists whilst his museum-oriented ethnographic explorations place him within a context of museum research.