When Speck first arrived at Penn he was appointed as an instructor and assistant in general ethnology, working and teaching out of the Museum. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908 and remained in Philadelphia for the rest of his career. Leaving Columbia for the University Museum, Speck received his Ph.D. Speck initially planned to continue with graduate studies at Columbia with Boas until he was awarded a George Leib Harrison Research Fellowship from the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1907. Under Boas, Speck began his fieldwork among the Yuchi Indians of Oklahoma in 1904, receiving his M.A.
Speck was one of Boas' first graduate students and was one of a generation of anthropologists (along with Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Alfred Kroeber, and Paul Radin) to learn and promote the Boasian approach to anthropology. in 1904 started his graduate work under Boas. Through Boas and Prince's encouragement Speck decided to pursue a career in anthropological linguistics, and after receiving his A.B. Prince also introduced Speck to anthropologist Franz Boas, who had begun his tenure at the helm of Columbia's anthropology department less then a decade earlier. Before graduating, Speck and Prince co-authored three articles. During the class Prince became fascinated by Speck's ability to provide first hand information on Native languages long thought to have no more speakers - particularly Pequot-Mohegan and Delaware-Mohican. That changed when he enrolled in a language course with the eminent linguist John Dyneley Prince. When Speck entered Columbia University at the turn of the century, he had not settled on a career - though he was leaning towards the ministry. Later in his childhood his family moved to Hackensack, New Jersey. Speck was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8, 1881. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied collecting information on all aspects of their culture that he knew to ask about. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of Native peoples of eastern North American, primarily cultures speaking Algonquian or Iroquoian languages. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively.Īnthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G.
The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Haudenosaunee ("Iroquois"), Labrador Inuit ("Eskimo"), Innu ("Montagnais-Naskapi"), Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonquian, and Yuchi.
FRANK SPEEK PROFESSIONAL
Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of Speck's professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Speck spent a larger amounnt of time in the field than was typical of most ethnographers, collecting documentary information and physical objects. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Speck chose to study the cultures of Indigenous peoples of eastern North America, especially the Haudenosaunee, Cherokee, and peoples speaking Algonquian languages, such as Anishinaabe, Wabanaki, Innu, Lenape, and other Algonquian peoples within the eastern United States.
Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was one of Franz Boas' early graduate students and from 1907 till his death in 1950 spent his career in a variety of positions at the University of Pennsylvania, including its Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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