McIlwraith, Thomas Forsyth

McILWRAITH, Thomas Forsyth, anthropologist (b 9 Apr 1899, Hamilton, ON; d 29 Mar 1964, Toronto). A student of the NUXALK (Bella Coola) people, he first came to the Pacific coast in 1922 as a young researcher sent by the Victoria Memorial Museum (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization). He lived among the Nuxalk for a year, though his authoritative book about them, The Bella Coola Indians, was not published until 1948. In 1925 he joined the Univ of Toronto, where he headed the department of...

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