Obituary for Bruce Rigsby.

Bruce was appointed to the Chair of Anthropology at UQ in 1975, moving to Brisbane with his wife Barbara Rigsby and their children Mark and Jan. Bruce's scholarly range was broad. Bruce Joseph Rigsby (1937-2022) was a fieldwork-oriented linguist and social anthropologist who maintained a lifelong connection with Native Americans of the Southern Plateau of the Pacific North-west, especially "Sahaptian vowel systems through time" and Nass-Gitksan peoples but others as well. Barbara's life/work balance held Bruce's work/work balance somewhat in check over many valiant years, and her care for Bruce in the years following his stroke was heroic. [Extracted from the article]