Frank Gouldsmith Speck

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (born Nov. 8, 1881, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 6, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American cultural anthropologist known for his work on the Algonquin Indian tribes of the eastern United States. Speck studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University. He founded the anthropology department at the University of Pennsylvania and was its chairman for much of his life. Speck attempted, as did others of the period, to preserve and analyze fragments of...