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The Philippines: The Harold Conklin Collection
The museum's first major Philippines collection to be made by a trained anthropologist was acquired by Harold C. Conklin. He had spent a year and a half in the Philippines before earning his anthropology B.A. from UC in 1950. Made between 1952 and 1954, while a graduate student at Yale, these collections relate closely to Conklin's research interests in ethnobiology, ecology, and agriculture. Unlike the rice-farming Ifugao of Barton's earlier collections, the Hanunóo practiced shifting "slash-and-burn" agriculture.
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