James Pilling
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1846 – 1895
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Who was James Pilling?
James Constantine Pilling was a Congressional stenographer-transcriptionist and a pioneering ethnologist chiefly known for compiling a series of extensive bibliographies of the cultures, mythologies and languages of the North and Central American aboriginal peoples. Beginning in 1875, when he joined the survey of the American West led by Maj. John Wesley Powell, and continuing through 1881, Pilling did extensive fieldwork and proofread Powell's Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States.
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- Born
- 1846
- Also known as
- James Constantine Pilling
- Pilling, James Constantine
- Died
- 1895
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on July 23, 2013
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