| LC control no. | n 50018458 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hallet, Jean-Pierre, 1927-2004 |
| Variant(s) | Hallet, Jean Pierre, 1927- |
| Associated country | Belgium Congo (Democratic Republic) Rwanda United States |
| Birth date | 1927 |
| Death date | 2004-01-01 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Pygmies Mbuti (African people) Art, African |
| Affiliation | Belgium. Ministère des colonies Pygmy Fund |
| Profession or occupation | Agriculturists Ethnologists Philanthropists Linguists Art, African--Collectors and collecting |
| Found in | His Congo kitabu, 1965. OCLC, Mar. 13, 2014 (hdgs.: Hallet, Jean Pierre, 1927- ; Hallet, Jean Pierre; Hallet, Jean-Pierre; usage: Jean-Pierre Hallet) Pygmy Fund website, letter by Marc and Bernard Hallet, Feb. 18, 2004, viewed Mar. 13, 2014 (Jean-Pierre Hallet, founder and president of The Pygmy Fund; d. Jan. 1, 2004, leukemia; accompanying obituary by Don Heyneman: d. age 76; africanist, ethnologist, sociologist, humanitarian, agronomist, naturalist, explorer, photographer, author, African art authority, adventurer; best known as authority on African pygmies and in particular the Ituri Forest Efé clan of the Bambuti pygmies; father, artist André Hallet, lived along northern shore of Lake Kivu in Ruanda-Urundi; Hallet lived there until age 6; studied agronomy and sociology at the Univ. of Brussels, 1945-46, and the Sorbonne, 1947-48; joined the Ministry for Colonies as agronomist in Belgian Congo, 1948-1958; compiled dictionary of the pygmy language, unpublished; lived and worked with 17 tribes of East and Central Africa, learning languages and traditions of each; had a home in Kisenyi, present-day Rwanda; home in Malibu, Cal., store and gallery for African art in Santa Monica) |
| Associated language | eng fre |
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