Matilda Coxe Stevenson 5212260 221120246 2008-06-23T03:33:34Z CJLL Wright 259138 +ref (Parezo 1989) {{Infobox Scientist |name = Matilda Coxe Stevenson |box_width = |image =Replace_this_image_female.svg |image_width =150px |caption = Matilda Coxe Stevenson |birth_date = [[12 May]] [[1849]] |birth_place = [[San Augustine, Texas|San Augustine, Tex.]] |death_date = [[24 Jun]] [[1915]] |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States|American]] |ethnicity = |field = [[Ethnology|ethnologist]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Matilda Coxe Stevenson''' (''née'' Evans) (1855-1915) was an [[United States|American]] [[Ethnology|ethnologist]], born at [[San Augustine, Texas|San Augustine, Tex.]] In 1872 she was married to James Stevenson, an ethnologist (died 1888), with whom she spent 13 years in explorations of the [[Rocky Mountains|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 people|Pueblo]] tribes of that State, and in 1904-10 made a special study of the [[Taos Indians|Taos]] and [[Tewa Indians|Tewa]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. 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) * ''The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies'' (1904) For another perspective 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== * {{cite book |author=Parezo, Nancy J. |year=1989 |chapter=Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson|editor=Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, and Ruth Weinberg (eds.) |title=Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies |edition=Illini Books edition, Reprint of Westport, CT: Greenwood Press original [©1988]. |location=Urbana |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |pages=pp.337–343|isbn=0-252-06084-9 |oclc=19670310}} ==External links== *Obituary for Matilda Coxe Stevenson in American Anthropologist *[http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:aC7uvNBViYkJ:www.aaanet.org/gad/history/061stevensonobit.pdf+Matilda+Coxe+Stevenson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=safari] {{NIE}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Matilda Coxe}} [[Category:1855 births]] [[Category:1915 deaths]] [[Category:People from San Augustine County, Texas]] [[Category:American ethnologists]] [[Category:American explorers]] [[Category:American women writers]]