- Source: Lilly de Jongh Osborne
Lilly de Jongh Osborne (November 9, 1883 – March 14, 1975) was a Costa Rican writer, lecturer, collector, and scholar specializing in Mesoamerican arts, crafts, and textiles. She published several works in this field. Some of her many artifacts are part of the collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Biography
Born in San José, Costa Rica, Osborne was the daughter of Dutch parents, Juan J. and Jenny G. de Jongh. She graduated from the Colegio de Senoritas (San Jose, 1900). She had been a member of various organizations including the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, El Ateneo de El Salvado, Society of Woman Geographers, and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. The Guatemalan textiles which she collected in the mid to late 1930s are housed at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has published extensively in this field.
She married Edmund Arthur Osborne (1873–1941). There were three children, Stanley, Leslie, and Elsa. Osborne died in Guatemala City, Guatemala 1975.
Selected works
Minor Native arts in Central America
Indian crafts of Guatemala
1928, Brief von Lilly de Jongh Osborne an Max Uhle
1933, Making a textile collection (with Pan American Union)
1935, Tupui or coral serpent, black spots on Indian children
1935, Guatemala textiles
1956, Four keys to El Salvador
1960, Así es Guatemala
1963, Breves apuntes de la indumentar a idigena de Guatemala
1965, Folklore, supersticiones y leyendas de Guatemala (with Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala; Comisión Permanente de Folklore, Etnografía y Etnología)
1965, Indian crafts of Guatemala and El Salvador (with Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress))
References
Bibliography
Hilton, Ronald (1946). Who's Who in Latin America: Part II, Central America and Panama. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0712-1.
Schevill, Margot Blum; Berlo, Janet Catherine; Dwyer, Edward B. (5 July 2010). Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78761-2.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Lilly de Jongh Osborne
- De Jongh
- Penn Museum
- Fred Hassan
- List of American films of 2007
- Deaths in April 2013
