![]() (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Collection Citation Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Collection Director Please submit a written request to Collection Creator Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Speck died in Philadelphia at the age of 68. His major monographs were: Naskapi: Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula (1935) and Penobscot Man or, the Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine (1940). He also served as President of the American Folk-Lore Society. Speck served as Associate Editor of the American Anthropologist for over ten years and was Vice-President of the American Anthropological Association in 1945-46. While his major work was among the Algonkian peoples, his field research and collecting ranged from north of the Canadian border down to North Carolina and Louisiana. Speck was also deeply interested in culture change and the contemporary lives of the people with whom he worked. In fact, he spent as much time in the field as he possibly could, focusing his attention on the Algonkian peoples of the eastern woodlands. Speck conducted fieldwork throughout his life. Speck began serving as acting department chair in 1913 and was appointed full professor and chairman in 1925. Speck was fired from the University Museum in 1911 for reasons that remain cloudy, but was immediately hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908, Speck was offered a research fellowship at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. It concerned the ethnography of the Yuchi Indians of Oklahoma and was published by the University Museum. Boas, a profound influence on Speck, supervised his dissertation research. ![]() in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dyneley introduced Speck to Franz Boas, and Dyneley and Boas both encouraged Speck to study anthropology. Prince was interested in American Indian languages and was impressed that Speck knew a Native American language long thought extinct. When Speck attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, he took a philology course with the linguist, John Dyneley Prince. Fielding was one of the last native speakers of the Mohegan language and, moreover, of any native language spoken in New England and Speck grew up speaking Mohegan. Fielding, a native woman and family friend. Concerned about his health, his parents had sent him to live in the country with Fidelia A. Although she doubted from time to time whether she was talented enough, Anne wanted to write anyway.View Finding Aid for Frank Speck See more items in Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records / Series 6: Collectors Biographical / Historicalįrank Gouldsmith Speck (1881-1950) was born in Brooklyn, New York, but raised in Mohegan, Connecticut. She hoped one day to become a famous writer or journalist. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings otherwise, I'd absolutely suffocate. It is noteworthy that in The Secret Annex, Anne left out her notes about her love for Peter and her vicious remarks about her mother, such as 'my mother is in most things an example to me, but then an example of precisely how I shouldn’t do things.' What does writing mean to Anne? ![]() Since the original diary letters from 1943 have not survived, we do not know anything about them. There, the differences between the original diary and Anne's rewritten version are the greatest. She gave to the texts written during the first six months in hiding an especially thorough going-over. What are the main differences between Anne's diary and The Secret Annex?ġ5-year-old Anne looked very critically at the texts written by 13-year-old Anne.
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