John Alden Mason

John Alden Mason

John Alden Mason (January 14, 1885 – November 7, 1967) was an archaeological anthropologist and linguist.

Mason was born in Orland, Indiana, but grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907 and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1911. His dissertation was an ethnographic study of the Salinian Amerindian ethnic group of California. He also authored a number of linguistic studies, including a study of Piman languages. His later ethnographic works included studies of the Tepehuan.

Mason was curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.

His papers are housed at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

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* [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/m/mason.htm American Philosophical Society]
* [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/marvels_and_tales/v019/19.2mccarthy.html Project Muse]
* "Descendants of Capt. Hugh Mason in America", by Edna W. Mason, 1937
* "Who Was Who in America", Vol. 10


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