Alanson Skinner

Alanson Buck Skinner studied at Columbia University and Harvard University. Trained as an ethnologist, Skinner was associated with three museums during his short life: the American Museum of Natural History (ca. 1907-1915), the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (1915-1920, 1924-1925), and the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee (1920-1924). He carried out extensive research on Indian tribes in North America, especially the tribes of New York, the Great Lakes Region, and the Northern Plains. Skinner also traveled to Costa Rica to study the Indians in that country. The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin was his specialty.