ABSTRACT

Gladys Amanda Reichard (1893-1955) was a part-time linguist. Her doctoral degree at Columbia University was in the field of anthropology, and throughout her career, she worked in both ethnography and linguistics, with the emphasis varying from one to the other depending on the particular research in which she was engaged at any given point. Beginning with graduate school, over the course of her first decade of professional studies, she covered an impressively diverse agenda of research-on the endangered language Wiyot, Navajo social life, Melanesian design, and the grammar of Coeur d’Alene. Each of these studies resulted in the publication of a book (Reichard 1925, 1928, 1932, 1938).