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William H. Crocker

William H. Crocker

1924 - 2026

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William H. Crocker died peacefully at his home in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2026, at age 101. An emeritus curator of South American ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, Crocker was an expert on the Canela, or Memortumre, an aboriginal society of lowland Brazil. He did research with the...

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