Swanton Bank

Swanton Bank (54˚12'00" 133˚02'00" Off Cloak Bay, S side of Langara I, off NW end of Graham I, QCI). Linguist and anthropologist John Reed Swanton (1873–1958), from Maine, came to the QCI for a year in 1900–1901 and recorded much of the classic Haida narrative poetry. Strongly influenced by Franz Boas, he took his PhD at Harvard Univ and was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology for almost 40 years. Swanton’s early work was mostly in the PNW, and he published several influential...

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