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Dr. William C. Sturtevant (1926 - 2007) is best known as the general editor of the 20-volume Handbook of North American Indians.
He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale in 1955 and served first as a research anthropologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology before being appointed Curator of North American Ethnology in the U.S. National Museum (later the National Museum of Natural History), Smithsonian Institution.
Sturtevant died on March 2, 2007 from emphysema. He was the eldest son of the geneticist Alfred Sturtevant.
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- Jason Baird Jackson, William C. Sturtevant (1926-2007), Museum Anthropology blog. Sunday, March 04, 2007.
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