Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.
Edward Sapir (c. 1910)
Franz Boas
Tony Tillohash with family. Tillohash was Sapir's collaborator on the famous description of the Southern Paiute language
Alfred Kroeber and Ishi
Franz Uri Boas was a Jewish-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
Franz Boas
Boas's dissertation: Beiträge zur Erkenntniss der Farbe des Wassers
"Franz Boas posing for figure in US Natural History Museum exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before. Courtesy of National Anthropology Archives. (Kwakiutl culture)
Drawing of a Kwakiutl mask from Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Wooden skulls hang from below the mask, which represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey.