page_title: Helen Heffron Roberts
hierarchical_section_title: Helen Heffron Roberts
caption_attribution_description: English: Helen Heffron Roberts in 1926 by J. P. Harrington, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution
context_page_description: Helen Heffron Roberts 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.
context_section_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.
caption: Helen Heffron Roberts in CA, 1926, by J. P. Harrington. Likely shot during recording sessions of the now extinct Konomihu language in Somes Bar, CA.
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