Henry Usher Hall

Henry Usher Hall (1876-1944) was an American anthropologist. He was Assistant Curator and Curator of the General Ethnology Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1915 to 1935. [Collins, David (ed.) (1999). "Collected Works of M.A. Czaplicka: Vol. 1, Collected Articles and Letters", p. 81 Routledge. ISBN 0700710019.] He was instrumental in guiding the Museum's African collection in its early years.Winegard, Dilys Pegler (1993). "Through Time, Across Continents: A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum", pp. 190-91. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN 0924171162.]

He accompanied Polish anthropologist Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886-1921) on an expedition down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914, together with Maud Doria Haviland (1889-1941), ornithologist, and Dora Curtis, artist. [Collins (1999), pp. 62-64.]

He conducted excavations in the Dordogne in 1923, and in 1936-37 he led an expedition to Sierra Leone, where he investigated the Sherbro people. [Collins (1999), p. 81.] On his return from Sierra Leone, he published "The Sherbro of Sierra Leone" (1938), which included an account of the secret Poro society of the Sherbro men.

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* [http://www.angelfire.com/on/czapla/macpa.html Photos of Hall from the photo album of M. A. Czaplicka]