| Code | DS/UK/1493 |
| Dates | 15/04/1855-02/06/1931 |
| Person Name | Voth; Henry Richert (15/04/1855-02/06/1931); Reverend |
| Surname | Voth |
| Forenames | Henry Richert |
| Title | Reverend |
| Activity | Ethnographer and Mennonite missionary and minister; |
| History | Learned Arapaho language and customs at Darlington, Indian Territory, near Fort Reno (1882-1892); work at Oraibi with the 3rd mesa Hopi, Northern Arizona (1893-1903). The Field Museum published Voth' s series of precise descriptions of Hopi ceremonies and folklore, illustrated with his photographs; served the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Oklahoma (1914-1927). |
| Source | Fred Eggan: H. R. Voth, Ethnologist. In: Barton Wright: Hopi material culture. Artifacts gathered by H. R. Voth in the Fred Harvey Collection. With an introduction by Byron Harvey III and an essay on H. R. Voth by Fred Eggan. Flagstaff AZ 1979. pp. 1–7. "Henry Voth" in en.Wikipedia; URL:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Voth> [accessed 01/07/2011].
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