William C. Sturtevant; Expert on Indians From: The Washington Post | Date: March 17, 2007| Author: Louie Estrada - Washington Post Staff Writer | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

William C. Sturtevant, 80, a curator emeritus of North American ethnology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a leading scholar on the traditional cultures of North American tribes, died March 2 at the Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville. He had emphysema.

Dr. Sturtevant's career with the Smithsonian spanned half a century, beginning in 1956 as an ethnologist at the Bureau of American Ethnology. When the bureau closed nearly 10 years later,...

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