Background
Farge, Oliver Louisiana was born on December 19, 1901 in New York City. Son of Christopher Grant and Florence Bayard (Lockwood) Louisiana Farge.
Farge, Oliver Louisiana was born on December 19, 1901 in New York City. Son of Christopher Grant and Florence Bayard (Lockwood) Louisiana Farge.
Graduate Groton (Massachusetts) School, 1920. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1924, Hemenway fellow, 1924-1926, Master of Arts, 1929. Honorary Master of Arts, Brown University, 1932.
Assistant in ethnology, Tulane University, 1926-1928. Made 3 archeological expeditions to Arizona for Harvard, and 2 archeological and ethnological expeditions to Mexico and Guatemala for Tulane University. Research associate in anthropology, Columbia, 1931-1933.
Ethnological expedition to Guatemala for Columbia, 1932.
Director Eastern Association in Indian Affairs, 1930-1932, Intertribal Exhibitions Indian Arts, 1931; president National Association on Indian Affairs, 1933-1937.
President American Association on Indian Affairs (successor to National Association on Indian Affairs and to American Indian Defense Association) 1937-1942, since 1948. Guggenheim fellowship in writing, 1941-1942.
Editorial advisory Alliance Book Corporation, 1940-1941.
Vice chairman Institute on Future of the American Indian, 1941.
Member advisory board Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, 1935-1941 and since 1946. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Anthropological Association, National Institute Arts and Letters. Clubs: Century, Coffee House.
Married Wanden East. Mathews, September 28, 1929 (divorced 1937). Married second, Consuelo O. C. de Baca, October 14, 1939.