Krista, your comment rattled a memory neuron which hasn't been touched
in a long time! The anthopoligist's name was Jones (not Indy, I might
add). He was ambushed on the day that he was leaving the village he
had been studying. It was the Ilongots who killed him purported to
"free his spirit so that it could protect them." This ocurred sometime
around the 1920's and he was doing ethnography for the Field Museum in
Chicago.
He was reported to be "American Indian," but I don't know his tribe. I've
never located a biography on him and it's been one of those projects which
remains buried under my "things to do." I did read some of the research
reports he submitted and, quite frankly, he sounded just as racist as a
lot of other anthropologists of that time. I would have thought that his
ancestry would have made him more sensitive, but I guess not.
As a matter of interesting trivia, there is a small town in the Philippine
province of Nueva Vizcaya which has his namesake (Jones). In the folkculture
of that region he is still remembered because of a German Shepard dog which
was his pet and which he took along to his fieldsite. To this day, many
local dogs carry the namesake of that pet! I'll dig up my notes on this
if anyone is interested in collaborating further on it!
As for other NA anthros, lets not forget the Indian godfather of the
profession, Alphonso Ortiz (San Juan Pueblo). Also, there is Edward
Dozier (Santa Clara Pueblo) now deceased, and Edmund Ladd (Zuni Pueblo).
I guess "us" Pueblos just got anthropology in our blood?!
Ted Jojola
Native American Studies
University of New Mexico
PS: Still need more Columbus cartoons!