# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-heffron-roberts
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:06.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-heffron-roberts"
name: "Helen Heffron Roberts"
slug: "helen-heffron-roberts"
description: "Helen Heffron Roberts (1888–1985) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ethnomusicologist. Her work included the study of the origins and development of music among the Jamaican Maroons, and the Puebloan peoples of the American southwest. Her recordings of ancient Hawaiian meles are archived at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Roberts was a protege of Alfred V. Kidder and Franz Boas."
tagline: "American ethno-musicologist (1888–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Heffron_Roberts_in_1926.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1888"
deathDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.269654666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Helen Heffron Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "هيلين هيفرون روبرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيلين روبرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2462de2e-ed4d-4ac3-a9ba-19d67e8dc0bc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Heffron_Roberts"
    title: "Helen Heffron Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Heffron_Roberts"
    title: "Helen Heffron Roberts"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18911451"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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