Edwin Atlee Barber was an American archeologist and author

Author

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Biography

Edwin Atlee Barber was born in Baltimore, Maryland to William Edwin Barber and Anne Eliza Townsend. He entered Lafayette College

Lafayette College

Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...

 in 1869 but left before graduating to assume a position as an assistant naturalist for the Hayden Survey. He developed an interest in decorated pottery and rapidly became an authority in Pueblo

Pueblo

Pueblo is a term used to describe modern communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest used this term to describe the communities housed in apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material...

 ceramic art. He contributed several articles to the American Naturalist about his work with the Hayden Survey. He returned to Lafayette College and graduated in 1877. Edwin received a graduate degree from Lafayette College in 1893 and began working as curator of ceramics at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art

The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on February 26, 1876. This was in response to the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia that year....

becoming the director in 1907.

Marriage and children

On February 5, 1880 he married Nellie Louise Parker and in 1883 she gave birth to their only child Louise Atlee Barber.

Published works

• Language and Utensils of the Modern Utes. 1876
• The Ancient Pottery of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. 1876
• Bead Ornaments Employed by the Ancient Tribes of Utah and Arizona. 1876
• Comparative Vocabulary of Utah Dialects. 1877
• Moqui Food-Preparations. 1878
• The Ancient Pueblos; or, The Ruins of the Valley of the Rio San Juan. 1878
• The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States 1893
• Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States. 1903
• Marks of American Potters. 1904
• Tin Enamelled Pottery. 1907
• The Maiolica of Mexico.1908