Ira Jacknis

Ira Stuart Jacknis (March 25, 1952 - September 29, 2021) was an American anthropologist who studied Native American art of the Northwest Coast. Jacknis had studied anthropology and art history as an undergraduate, deepening his interests in the history of anthropology while working as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution under curator William C. Sturtevant. He then continued his studies in history and anthropology under the tutelage Nancy Munn, Raymond Fogelson, and George W. Stocking at the University of Chicago. Much of Jacknis' work connected to ethnography, art history, and the history of anthropology.

He was based at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1991 until his death. Provided by Wikipedia