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Iroquois are an unexpected and compassionate portrait of a people, transcending the scientific basis with which he began. A trained sculptor, he had the eye of an artist, as evidenced in his portrait composition and his mastery of the photographic craft. His field notes say little about his photographic interests, however, instead describing a passion for the sculpting of clay busts, an art studied in England. His monographs
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Knowles always followed the work of the Museum, of whatever sort, with the greatest and most helpful interest, and knew all of the Staff to the youngest apprentice, and noted their progress with approval. ... All his work, both in the Museum, and in his publications, was based on exact observation and experiment. His work will endure, and his example will live in those he taught, and will be passed on...”
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