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Henry Wassén, born 24 August 1908 in Gothenburg, dead 1996 in Gothenburg, was a Swedish ethnograph and Head of Museum, with title Honorary Professor.

Biography
Wassén was the son of a merchant, he graduated in 1928 and received a licentiate in Gothenburg, 1936. He started his career as an intern at Gothenburg's Ethnographic Museum in 1930, and became curator there in 1954. He later became Head of Museum 1968-73, and was made an Honorary Professor in 1972.

Wassén made several scientic expeditions to amongst others Colombia, Panama and Central America.

Alongside his work at the museum Wassén also had a number of elected positions and was comittee member in the Swedish Society for Museums and chairman of their Gothenburg Group, also a member of the governance comittee of the Shipping Museum in Gothenburg. Further, he was a correspondance member of the Columbian Academy of Science and Columbian Historical Academy, and also member of the scientific societies of Argentina, Brasil, Columbia, Guatamala, Panama, Peru and Mexico.

Based on his scientific work he published many books, some with a popular science character.

Selected bibliography

 * Odhners historia : illustrerad krönika över en maskin att räkna med : ett apropå till 100-årsminnet av W.T Odhners födelse 1845, 1945
 * Mexikos, Central- och Sydamerikas arkeologi, utg. av Göteborgs etnografiska museum, 1963
 * Some words on the Cuna Indians and especially their "mola"-garments, 1964
 * The use of some specific kinds of South American Indian snuff and related paraphernalia, med appendix: Einige Bemerkungen zur Anwendung und Wirkungsweise des Epena-Schnupfpulvers der Waika-Indianer av Georg J. Seitz, 1965
 * Four Swedish anthropologists in Argentina in the first decades of the 20th century: biobibliographical notes, 1967
 * Mola: Cuna-indiansk textilkonst : Göteborgs etnografiska museum utställer i Röhsska konstslöjdsmuseet: 6 september-oktober 1968, 1968
 * A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in Highland Bolivia, medförfattare Wolmar E. Bondeson ..., 1972