Isabel Meadows
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Isabel Meadows was an Ohlone ethnologist and the last fluent speaker of the Rumsen Ohlone language. She also spoke Esselen. She worked closely with the anthropologists from the Smithsonian Institution
Isabel Meadows in her 40s, circa 1890
Meadows as a young woman (c. 1880)
John Peabody Harrington
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John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California.
Isabel Meadows
…one brother, Thomas Meadows of Monterey, and his children. In her later years and until her death, Meadows worked closely with Smithsonian ethnologist J. P. Harrington and shared her knowledge of her tribe's culture and languages in the Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur regions of California. Drawing upon her ancestry…
Harrington in 1924
Harrington (center), recording speakers of the Guna language