Florence Shotridge: A Woman, Tlingit, and Museum Educator Guide

• Main Author: Murad, Maria
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarlyCommons 2021
• Subjects: Tlingit; Chilkat; Southeast Alaska; Shotridge Expedition; Penn Museum; Anthropology; Weaver; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_seniortheses/207; https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1213&context=anthro_seniortheses

This project aims to tell the life history of a Tlingit woman named Florence Shotridge (1882-1917) through both a written essay and a short film. Florence’s husband, Louis Shotridge, is a well-known Tlingit ethnographer and collector, but much of his work in his early career was done in collaboratio...