Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr in 1909.
Starr wearing Japanese clothes

Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 – August 14, 1933) was an American academic, anthropologist, and "populist educator"[1] born in Auburn, New York.

As he was avid collector of charms (ofuda) and votive slips (senjafuda or nōsatsu) he was called Dr. Ofuda (お札博士, Ofuda Hakushi/ Hakase) in Japan.[2][3] He sold much of this collection to art collector and museum specialist Gertrude Bass Warner, and it currently resides at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon and the University of Oregon Knight Library Special Collections & University Archives.[4][5]

  1. ^ Parezo, Nancy J. and Don D. Fowler. (2007). "Taking Ethnological Training Outside the Classroom: the 1904 Louisiana Exposition as Field School," Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 2, p. 78.
  2. ^ Ofuda Hakushi, 1924.
  3. ^ David, Moreton. "Shikoku: The Centenarian Perspective of Frederick Starr フレデリックスタールの目から見た 100 年前の四国" (PDF).
  4. ^ McDowell, Kevin. "Gertrude Bass Warner Collection of Votive Slips (nōsatsu)". Oregon Digital. University of Oregon, Special Collections & University Archives. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
  5. ^ "The Starr collection · Mellon Projects". glam.uoregon.edu. Retrieved November 26, 2022.