# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-weltfish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:35:41.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gene-weltfish"
name: "Gene Weltfish"
slug: "gene-weltfish"
description: "Gene Weltfish was an American anthropologist and historian working at Columbia University from 1928 to 1953. She had studied with Franz Boas and was a specialist in the culture and history of the Pawnee people of the Midwest Plains. Her 1965 ethnography, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, is considered the authoritative work on Pawnee culture to this day."
tagline: "American anthropologist and historian (1902–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gene_Weltfish_FF_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-08-07"
deathDate: "1980-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.273290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weltfish"
    title: "Gene Weltfish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "جين ويلتفيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "جين ويلتفيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weltfish"
    title: "Gene Weltfish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weltfish"
    title: "Gene Weltfish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weltfish"
    title: "Gene Weltfish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2797116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump