Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Born	12 May 1849 San Augustine, Tex.
Died	24 June 1915
Nationality	American
Fields	ethnologist

Matilda Coxe Stevenson (née Evans) (1849–1915) was an American ethnologist, born at San Augustine, Tex.

Bio

In 1872 she was married to James Stevenson, an ethnologist (died 1888), with whom she spent 13 years in explorations of the Rocky Mountain region.

After 1889 she was on the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. Mrs. Stevenson explored the cave, cliff, and mesa ruins of New Mexico, studied all the Pueblo tribes of that State, and in 1904-10 made a special study of the Taos and Tewa Native Americans.

Works

She was the author of:

• Zuñi and the Zuñians (1881)
• Religious life of the Zuñi Child (1887)
• The Sia, Zuñi Scalp Ceremonials (1890)
• Zuñi Ancestral Gods and Masks (1898)
• (1904) The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies

Further reading

For another perspective^[which?] on Mrs. Stevenson, focusing on her research methods in relation to the Hopi, see James 1974:109-110.

• Pages From Hopi History (1974), by Harry C. James

References

• Miller, Darlis A. (2007). Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering anthropologist. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Parezo, Nancy J. (1989). "Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson". In Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, and Ruth Weinberg (eds.). Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies (Illini Books edition, Reprint of Westport, CT: Greenwood Press original [©1988]. ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 337–343. ISBN 0-252-06084-9. OCLC 19670310. 

External links

• Obituary for Matilda Coxe Stevenson in American Anthropologist
• Cache:aC7uvNBViYkJ:www.aaanet.org/gad/history/061stevensonobit.pdf Matilda Coxe Stevenson - Google Search at 72.14.253.104

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Stevenson, Matilda Coxe
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Date of birth	12 May 1849
Place of birth	San Augustine, Tex.
Date of death	24 June 1915
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