biography
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Holmes, William Henry
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| lived:
| (1846–1933)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and museum director, born near Cadiz, Ohio, USA. Trained as an artist, his interests turned to archaeology in 1875 when exploring ancient cliff dwellings in the arid SW with the US Geological Survey. A visit to the Yucatan while he was curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, stimulated a major contribution to Mesoamerican archaeology, the illustrated Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities of Mexico (1895–97). He worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, for much of his career, acting as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1902–9) and director of the National Gallery of Art (1920–32). |
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