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In February 1919 Louis remarried, to Elizabeth Cook, a Tlingit of the L'uknax.ádi clan, and they had three children: Louis Jr., Richard, and Lillian. Elizabeth died in August 1928 of tuberculosis. In the early 1930s Louis married again, to Mary Kasakan
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in New York and worked with him on recording information on Tlingit language and musicology. Boas included Louis in his lecture audiences and eventually in his weekly round-table discussions among anthropologists at
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Starting in 1915, Shotridge worked for 17 years as Assistant Curator at the University Museum, making him the first Northwest Coast Indian to be employed by a museum.
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ed. by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan, pp. 129–162. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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ed. by Susan Kaplan and Kristin J. Barsness, pp. 54–90. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Milburn, Maureen E. (1994) "Weaving the 'Tina' Blanket: The Journey of Florence and Louis Shotridge." In:
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Seaton, Elizabeth P. (2001). "The Native Collector: Louis Shotridge and the Contests of Possession".
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Louis Situwuka Shotridge, ethnologist in Haines, Alaska employed by the University of Pennsylvania,
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Dean, Jonathan (1998) "Louis Shotridge, Museum Man: A 1918 Visit to the Nass and Skeena Rivers."
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of the Kiks.ádi clan from the family of "Chief Katlean", and had two more children by her.
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Milburn, Maureen E. (1986) "Louis Shotridge and the Objects of Everlasting Esteem." In:
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Shotridge was educated at the Haines mission school, where he met his wife-to-be,
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Shotridge, Louis (1919) "War Helmets and Clan Hats of the Tlingit Indians."
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Shotridge, Florence, and Louis Shotridge (1913) "Indians of the Northwest."
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In 1912 the Shotridges visited Philadelphia and met the anthropologist
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Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions,
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Shotridge, Florence, and Louis Shotridge (1913) "Chilkat Houses."
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Shotridge died August 6, 1937, of complications from an accident.
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Shotridge, Florence (1913) "The Life of a Chilkat Indian Girl."
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Shotridge, Louis (1928) "The Emblems of Tlingit Culture."
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Shotridge, Louis (1920) "Ghost of Courageous Adventurer."
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Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians.
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Shotridge, Louis (1929) "The Kaguanton Shark Helmet."
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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Klukwan, Alaska
Sitka, Alaska
Tlingit
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Tlingit
Alaska
Klukwan, Alaska
Haines
Kaagwaantaan
Presbyterian

Florence
Chilkat blankets
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
Portland, Oregon
G. T. Emmons
George Byron Gordon
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Philadelphia
Frank Speck
Edward Sapir
Franz Boas
Columbia University
Alaska Native Brotherhood

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