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Alaskan Bootlegger Facilitates







Miss de Laguna’s

Eskimo Find

Following is the second in a se- role in the establishment of the

ies of articles sponsored by cur-

riculum committee on members of

the Bryn Mawr faculty. -- Ed.
by Dorothy Hudig, '68

Miss Frederica de Laguna,
chairman of the Anthropology De-
partment here, is a Bryn Mawr
girl from childhood. Both of her
parents were professors of phil-
osophy here, She remembers
sleeping on the porch on Faculty
Row, and coming to Taylor for
entrance exams several times dur-
ing her high school years. During
her junior year of high school,
Miss de:Laguna’s parents went on
sabbatical to Europe, and sent her
to a lycée at Versailles, Later
she entered Bryn Mawr, where she
lived in Pem West and Radnor,
and earned her degree from the
joint department of political
science and economics.

No courses in anthropology were
available here then, Her interest
in the subject was inspired by her
father’s stories of life in the
Philippines and the diversity of
alien cultures, and by Elisha K.
Kane’s book “Arctic Explora-
tions,’? which she read when she
was about 13, Since that time she
has always been especially inter-
ested in Arctic Eskimos.

When she went tograduate school
at Columbia (Ph.D. 1933), Profes-
sor Franz Boas told her ‘there
would be no jobs in anthropology.’’
Unfortunately, he was right. When
the depression came, she found
her work at the Pennsylvania Mu-
seum was no longer funded, and
she was delegated as a ‘‘cata-
aaa receiving $15 a week

nder WPA, and later only $13.45
a week.

But job opportunities or not,
Miss de Laguna had already com-
pleted much work in anthropology.
As a doctoral candidate, she went
on a Danish government survey to
Greenland with the Eskimo expert
Therkel Mathiassen. :

Also, as a graduate student,
she ‘discovered’? the Eyak In-
dians, or rather rediscovered their
true identity. The tribe of about
20 surviving members was believed
to be Eskimos with Tlingit in-
fluences, but from a follow-up on
a clue, the tribe was established
as independent and ‘‘forgotten.’’
The clue came from the U.S.
marshall in Prince Williams Sound
during a 1930 survey of the Indians
there. Miss de Laguna had gone
to the marshall to try to geta skiff
that belonged to the local bootleg-
ger. One of the marshall’s re-
marks was, ‘‘There are three
breeds of cats hefe,’’ which in-
trigued Miss de Laguna with the
possibility of a ‘‘third breed.’’

Differences in language and cul-
ture provided supporting evidence
for the claim, Dr. Edward Sapir
completed the, language ‘‘diag-
‘nosis.’? Today Michael Kraus
(University of Alaska), the main
expert on Athabaskan Indian
languages, is doing further work on
the Eyak, He found Miss de La-
guna’s field notes ‘‘invaluable’’
because she wrote down phonetic
text sentences, rather than merely
vocabulary. Last Sunday, her re-
search was paid the high compli-
ment of a 1-1/2 hour cross-con-
tinent phone call. Yukon Island in

Cook Inlet, which was first ex-

cavated and surveyed by the party
. led by Miss de Laguna, was de-
clared a national historical monu-
ment by the U.S in 1965. Miss
de Laguna greatly prizes a medal
awarded her by the Homer Society
of Natural History in honor of her

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landmark. Even the Alaskan boot-
legger gained from the discovery:
he was in jail, and was delighted
to get rent for his skiff.

In 1938,.Miss de Laguna taught
the first anthropology course at
Bryn Mawr, later became chair-
man of the currently joint Depart-

ments of Sociology and Anthropol- ,

During Artistic- Artsy Arts Night

by Eleanor von Auw

It is a remarkable fact. about
this year’s Arts Night that no
single number and no ‘‘repre-
sentative’’ selection from thepro-
gram could be taken as indicating
or containing the essence of the
whole show, the spirit that warmed

ogy. Right now Miss de Laguna \the audience assembled in Skinner

has been elected President of the
American Anthropology Associa-
tion, and will assume office this
November.

What is ‘*Bryn Mawr’’ to Miss
de Laguna? She is just as devoted
as she was when she was an under=
graduate when she claimed, ‘A
broken rule undermines the com-
munity,’? and led a campaign to
allow smoking on campus because
infraction of rules reflected on the

reputation of the college. Her bro-
ther went to Haverford. Today she
is seeing further development of
her vocation, as the Anthropology
and Sociology Departments become
separate next year.



om)Friday evening, April 22, toa
m of delighted enthusiasm.

Perhaps its source can be found
in the sparkling introductions and
inter-act frolics of Lynne Meadow,
Ronnie Scharfman, and Mike
Moore. Mike’s_deviltrously grin-
ning face seemed to peer through
every interstice in the action.

Maybe too it is to be found in
the marvelous interplay, some-
times overt (even to the point of
blatancy), sometimes unobtrusive-
ly silent, of ‘‘cul-chah’’ and
*cul-ture.’’ For this was.a pro-
gram that mingled the artistic,
the artsy, and.the unpretentiously
hilarious in an exuberant variety
that yet could boast unity and co-
herence. This particular ‘‘two cul-
tures’ dialogue’’ was a very happy
and pleasant one, no element of ten-
sion intruding except possibly in
Vernon Haskell’s. description of
his **Theme and Variations’’ as
“real culture,’’ which epithet,
while ostensibly humorous, was not
entirely convincing as toits having
been spoken in good humor.

The renditions of the J. Edgar
Hoover Memorial Jug Band and
the excerpts from the Dance Con-
cert in their marked contrast to one
another perhaps best represent the
extremes in tone of the whole. The
former capitalized on the general
informality and careless gaiety and
on the close contact betw¢en those
on the stage and those_in—the
seats below them. The latter (parts
of Liz Schneider’s ‘‘the mind is
its own beautiful prisoner’’ and
Alice Leib’s ‘*Synapse’’) instead



The J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Jug Band.

created an artificial sense of
distance, the dancers seeming to be
elevated far above the spectators.
This performance was easily the
most serious, surely the most in-
tense, number on the program.

The Renaissance Choir’s sing-
ing of several madrigals, led al-
ternately by Ed Hazzard and Steve
Bonine, was the first feature of the
program, And even asthe excerpts
from the Dance Concert would
naturally have been shown to better
advantage in an auditorium that
placed a greater distance between
the performers and the audience,
so the Choir’s selections could
have been given with more effect
in a hall with greater possibilities
of resonance. Nonetheless, the
light, fine tunes provided a pecul-
iarly appropriate introduction to
the eyening.

Perhaps the most original per-
formance of the night -- particu-
larly in the medium (or mediums)
it employed -- was Janie Paul’s
reading “of a narrative prose-poem
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which were shown as slides. This
was a particularly effective blend-
ing of two media, for the poem

, dealt with painting and made ex-

tensive use of colors.

Another unusual piece was Ver-
non Haskell’s ‘“*Theme and Varia-
tions for Flute and Violin,’ un-
usual particularly in this com-
binations of instruments. While a
fine and intriguing display of tech-
nical possibilities and technical
skill, this was not possessed of
the compelling intensity of, for
example, the dance selections,

Sharon Shelton’s singing of three
songs, two of them French, of a
rather dreamy, drifting tone, while
accompanying herself on the guitar,
was only marred by a slight af-
fectedness in manner, an attempt
‘to achieve an effect not particular-
ly appropriate to the place or
occasion.

The program also included blue
grass music with Pete Peterson,
Jack Bowers and George Stavis,
which would have been quite en-
tirely delightful had it not lasted
a bit too long. A jazz combo in-
cluding Fern Hunt, Cris Kane, and
Fred Szydlik wound up the evening
with a performance that was alltoo
short, the concluding number being
-- almost inevitably -- the
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