John Peabody Harrington

J.P. Harrington posing with three Cuna (Tule) while making dictaphone recordings of Cuna language and songs, 1924, photograph by DeLancey Gill, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

J.P. Harrington was an ethnographer who worked for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1915 to 1955. He interviewed American Indian informants, including Chumash and Gabrielino Tribal members, and recorded information about native languages and culture. Harrington’s informants provided important details about American Indians who interacted with the Lone Woman in 1853.

DATE OF BIRTH: April 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH: Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
DATE OF DEATH: October 21, 1961
PLACE OF BURIAL: San Diego, California, USA


References
Blackburn, Thomas. December’s Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975: 5.

“California Death Index, 1940–1997,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed January 23, 2016), entry for John Peabody Harrington; citing State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

“John Peabody Harrington Collection: About J. P. Harrington,” article, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (http://www.anthropology.si.edu/naa/harrington: accessed January 23, 2016).

“US Passport Applications, 1795–1925 for John Peabody Harrington,” database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed January 23, 2016), entry for John Peabody Harrington; citing Selected Passports, National Archives, Washington, D. C.