The Julian Collection

Antiquities of the Great Basin Native American Tribes

Steward was active in excavations at several locations in the Eastern Great Basin in the 1930's-1940s and it is believed that the current collection was accumulated by Steward during that time with the aid of an association of collectors.

ANTIQUITIES GALLERY

Dr. Julian Steward

The Great Anthropologist of Indigenous Tribes of American West

Julian Haynes Steward was an American anthropologist and ethnographer best known for the advancement of his concept of “cultural ecology,” the idea that cultural development is not simply the result of cultural interaction, but interaction with the environment.

JULIAN'S BIO

Contribution to Anthropology

The Academic Grandfather of Cultural Ecology in Anthropology

Julian Haynes Steward was an American anthropologist and ethnographer best known for the advancement of his concept of “cultural ecology,” the idea that cultural development is not simply the result of cultural interaction, but interaction with the environment.

JULIAN'S ACADEMIC