J. Alden Mason and Aurelio M. Espinosa

John Alden Mason was born on 14 January 1885 in Orland, Indiana. An anthropologist trained at the University of Pennsylvania and then at Berkeley, he was sent to Puerto Rico in 1914 and 1915, and from 1926 was a curator at the University of Pennsylvania museum; he died on 7 November 1967. Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa, born on 12 September 1880 in El Carnero, Colorado, taught at Stanford from 1910 and was president of the American Folklore Society; a specialist in Hispanic folklore, he died on 4 September 1958.

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