Matilda Coxe Stevenson
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|birth_date = [[12 May]] [[1849]]
|birth_place = [[San Augustine, Texas|San Augustine, Tex.]]
|death_date = [[24 Jun]] [[1915]]
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'''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]
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