Edward W. Moser

A major collaborator with them on their work at that time was Roberto Herrera Marcos, a Seri man who also resided in Haxöl Iihom.

Their earliest publications were Seri reading primers that were published by SIL in cooperation with the Secretaría de Educación Pública after developing the first alphabet for the language under the guidelines of that Mexican ministry.

[1] A Seri-Spanish vocabulary book was published in 1961, an ethnobotany (with botanist Richard S. Felger) in 1985 (which has been hailed as a modern classic),[2] and a major dictionary in 2005,[3] thirty years after Edward's death, but based largely on work that he and Roberto Herrera Marcos (a.k.a.

What is known today about Seri history and culture, including the so-called “band” structure of this group, is the result of work that the Mosers and Herrera did.

Edward's interest in the well-being of the Seri people and in their rich culture and history was unflagging up until his sudden and unexpected death in 1976.