Lila O'Neale

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Lila Morris O'Neale (born November 2, 1886 in Buxton, North Dakota , † February 2, 1948 in Oakland , California ) was an American cultural anthropologist and ethnologist .

Life

Lila O'Neale was born in Buxton , North Dakota, United States in 1886 . Her father, George Lester O'Neale, immigrated from Ireland . Her mother, Carrie Higgins O'Neale, was a teacher. The family moved to San José, California . Lila O'Neale first completed a teacher training course at San José State University . She earned an Artium Baccalaureus (today: Bachelor of Arts ) from Stanford University in 1910 , a further Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in New York in 1916 and a Masters degree from the University of in 1927 California in Berkeley with a thesis on ancient Peruvian textiles . In 1930 it acquired in Berkeley the doctoral degree ( Ph.D. ) in anthropology with a field research work on Korbflecht methods of Native American women in California. Her doctoral supervisor was the ethnologist and cultural relativist Alfred Kroeber , who continued to support Lila O'Neale in later years. In 1941 she became a professor of cultural and historical arts and crafts .

Her partner was Martha Thomas, a lecturer at the University of San José.

Purple O'Neale died in 1948 of pneumonia .

Professional activity

Lila O'Neale first worked as a teacher in Oakland. Between 1912 and 1915 she taught in the subjects of textiles and related arts ( Related Arts ) at San Jose State Teachers College, a state college for teacher training, as well as 1916 to 1919 at Stout Institute in Wisconsin . In the years 1919 to 1926, she was at Oregon State College as an assistant and associate professor of textiles and related arts ( Related Arts in operation), for a short time in the summer of 1922 at the University of Southern California .

After completing her doctorate, she returned to the University of California at Berkeley as a lecturer in applied arts and gave lectures on historical textiles and anthropology from 1930 to 1931. She taught history, arts and crafts, textiles and costumes . She also worked as a curator for textiles in the university's ethnological museum. When she replaced Edward Winslow Gifford in 1931, she was the first woman to teach anthropology at Berkeley University.

In 1931, Lila O'Neale received a Guggenheim scholarship for researching pre-Incan and Inca textiles in the Andes in Peru . Textiles from the prehistoric Paracas culture were found there in the 1920s .

Publications (selection)

  • Textile Periods in Ancient Peru , 1930 (with Alfred Kroeber)
  • Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers , Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, 1932. ISBN 9780936127040
  • Papago Color Designations , 1943 (with Juan Dolores)
  • Textiles of Highland Guatemala , 1945

Lila O'Neale's writings are held in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Margot Blum Schevill: Lila Morris O'Neale: Ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers of Nortwestern California . In: Janet Catherine Berlo (Ed.): The Early Years of Native American Art History , University of Washington Press, 1992. ISBN 9780295972022 . Pages 162-190.
  2. ^ A b Margot Blum Schevill: Lila Morris O'Neale . In: Kroeber Anthropological Society (KAS) Papers , Numbers 65-66, 1986. Pages 129-137.
  3. ^ Last Rites for UC Art Savant . In: Oakland Tribune , February 4, 1948. page 8.
  4. ↑ Dr. Purple Morris O'Neale . In: San Mateo Times , February 4, 1948.
  5. ^ Alfred Kroeger et al .: Obituary of Lila Morris O'Neale . In: University of California: In Memoriam , 1948.
  6. ↑ a b c Lila Morris O'Neale . In: John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Directory of fellows
  7. ^ The University of Southern California . In: Register: University of California (1922), pp. 17-18.
  8. ↑ Ira Jacknis: A Berkeley Home for Textile Art and Scholarship, 1912-79 . In: Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings , Paper 448, 2004.
  9. ↑ Purple Morris O'Neale . In: Foundations of Anthropology at the University of California , Bancroft Library
  10. ↑ David L. Browman: Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archeology , University of Nebraska Press, 2013. ISBN 9780803245471 . Pages 135-136.
  11. ^ Margaret W. Harrison: Lila Morris O'Neale, 1886-1948 . In: American Anthropologist , Number 50 (4), 1948. Pages 657-665.
  12. ^ Gets Scholarship . In: Corvallis Gazette-Times , April 30, 1931. Page 3.
  13. ^ Paracas textile . In: A History of the World in 100 Objects . BBC. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  14. ↑ Lila M. O'Neale papers , BANC MSS 2013/185, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
personal data
SURNAME O'Neale, Lila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Neale, Lila Morris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxton, North Dakota
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1948
Place of death Oakland , California