Record ID:
35168082 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 97876839
Heading:
Used for:
  • Handy, Willowdean C. (Willowdean Chatterson)
  • Handy, Willowdean Chatterson
Notes:
  • U.S. Government War Archives provides these biographical details: Willowdean Chatterson Handy 1889-1965 Born in Loiusville, Kentucky, Willowdean Chatterson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1909 and studied for two years at Radcliffe Graduate School. She was married on September 21, 1918, to E.S. Craighill Handy and was an associate in polynesian folkways at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum from 1920 to 1930. Accompanying her husband on a expedition to the Marquesas Islands, she drafted a record tatoo designs of the natives, living examples of this ancient art. Mrs Handy was a research analyst for the United States Office of Stategic Services during World War II and a librarian of the Hawai'ian Historical Society fron 1950 to 1962. She was a regent of the University of Hawai'i from 1943 to 1947 and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Association of University Women. She was honorary life president of the Honolulu Branch of the Pan Pacific and Southwest Asia Woman's Association.
  • Tattooing in the Marquesas, 2008 t.p. (Willowdean Chatterson Handy)
Local system number:
  • (AuAU)1072210
  • 000048038255
  • 000000168946
  • abv00188838
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng SUA AKIN:NBD