Frederick Starr

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For the contemporary American academic and musician, see S. Frederick Starr.

Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 - August 14, 1933) was an American anthropologist, born at Auburn, New York.

He studied at the University of Rochester and at Lafayette where he graduated in 1882. He was registrar of Chautauqua University in 1888-89, and after being in charge of ethnology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City (1889-91), was assistant professor (1892-95), and thereafter associate professor of anthropology in the University of Chicago.

In 1905-06 he made a careful study of the pygmy races of Central Africa, and made investigations in the Philippine Islands in 1908, in Japan in 1909-10, and in Korea in 1911.

His publications include:

• Catalogue of Collections of Objects Illustrating Mexican Folklore (1899)
• Indians of South Mexico (1900)
• The Ainu Group of the Saint Louis Exposition (1904)
• The Truth about the Congo (1907)
• In Indian Mexico (1908)
• Filipino Riddles (1909)
• Japanese Proverbs and Pictures (1910)
• Liberia (1913)
• Mexico and the United States (1914)

[edit] External links

• Works by Frederick Starr at Project Gutenberg
• Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History - Objects and Field Notes from Starr Congo Expedition 1905-1906 (section Collections Online, option Collections Highlights).

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.