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William Curtis Farabee was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel H. and Susannah (Hcnkins) Farabee.
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In 1913, ethnologist and explorer William Curtis Farabee set out to document the Arawak tribes of northern Brazil and southern British Guiana, a three-year journey that led him far into the unmapped regions of the Amazon River basin. His meticulous observations comprise The Central Arawaks, first published in 1918 and still one of the most comprehensive accounts of the peoples living along the northern tributaries of the Amazon River. The Wapisiana, Ataroi, Taruma, and Mapidian tribes numbered fewer than 1,500 at the time of Farabee's voyage; his detailed record of their daily life preserves a vision of these vulnerable cultures at a crucial point in their history, offering insight into their languages, social structures, and cosmologies. A testament to an ethnologist whose achievements were once hailed as 'monumental', this reissued edition also brings renewed attention to William Farabee, whose influence on Anglo-American anthropological exploration is still felt today.
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William Curtis Farabee was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel H. and Susannah (Hcnkins) Farabee.
He attended the state normal school, graduated from Waynesburg College in 1894, and after a period of teaching, he entered the graduate school of Harvard University, where he received his doctor’s degree from the division of anthropology in 1903.
In 1903 he was appointed an instructor in anthropology at Harvard. Apart from two relatively minor studies undertaken in Coahoma County, Mississippi (1901 and 1902), and an expedition to Iceland (1905 ) his first opportunity for field work came through the DeMilhau expedition organized under the auspices of the Peabody Museum for ethnological exploration in Peru. As the leader of this expedition (190609), Farabee worked in Peru east of the Andes and along the Andean plateau, mapping the region, recording and collecting among the Indians, and studying the archeological evidences of culture in the Andes and northwestern Bolivia. In 1913 the University of Pennsylvania appointed him curator of the section of American anthropology in the University Museum, and placed him in charge of an expedition organized to study the Indian tribes of the Amazon Basin. From March 1913 to June 1916, he explored that region. He traversed and mapped previously unknown country in southern British Guiana, and traced from source to mouth the hitherto indeterminate course of the Corentine River, the boundary between the Guianas. He recorded the cultural and somatic character of the Arawak and Carib tribes in northern Brazil, in British Guiana, and by the headwaters and main tributaries of the Amazon. He collected the pottery, basketry, and feather work of thirty tribes, and made unique collections of ancient handiwork in the pottery and burial-urns excavated on Marajo, Fortelaza, Ilho do Paros, and the Comotins River. Two published studies, The Central Arawaks (1918) and The Central Carihs (1924), and the Amazon exhibits in the University Museum show the skill and thoroughness with which he amassed and analysed this material. His own narrative of a part of the exploration was published under the title, “A Pioneer in Amazonia” in the Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, April 1917. In the interval between the Amazon expedition and his final research in South America, he acted as the ethnologist of the American Peace Commission at Versailles and represented the United States at the centennial of Peruvian independence, held in Lima in 1921. In 1922, he undertook further field work in South America to study the cultures of the Inca and Megalithic empires. The malignant fever of the Amazon had told on his health, however, and after three months of archeologic work in Peru, he became ill with inflammatory dysentery. Despite the nearly continuous need of rest and medical attention, however, he worked for more than a year in South America. He made detailed drawings of Inca and pre-Inca ruins in the Pisco and lea valleys and at Lake Titicaca; secured magnificent collections of pottery and textiles through excavations in the Nazca Valley, at Sabania, Pisco, and Puntillo; and took notes for a comprehensive study of the Araucanian Indians of central Chile. In the fall of 1923, he returned to Pennsylvania, with pernicious anemia, and after an illness of two years he died. Of Farabee’s many writings, those issued by the University Museum arc listed in the Museum Journal (June 1925). His other published papers include, inter alia, contributions to the Papers of the Peabody Museum (vols. Ill and X, 1905 and 1922) ; Science (January 1903) ; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (vol. LVI, 1917) ; and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (vol. I, 1918). Through his personal contacts, in Peru and the Amazon country he developed the mutual goodwill of Indian and white man and exerted an influence toward strengthening the confidence between the United States and South American governments.
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By temperament as well as by training, he was fitted to deal with the delicate human situations involved in experimental ethnology. He possessed the gift of analysis and exact observation, and also a love of music and art; the precise and impulsive elements harmonized in him, forming a buoyant, sensitive, genial, and rigorously upright character which drew and held men everywhere
On March 12, 1897 he was married to Sylvia Manilla Holdren of McArthur, Ohio.