Object Details
- Author
- Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
- Subject
- Stirling, Matthew Williams 1896-1975
- Stirling, Marion I
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Alexander Wetmore collected bird specimens for the USNM in Mexico, 1939. He briefly joined Stirling in Veracruz, where the Stirlings were doing anthropological field work.
- Summary
- Marion Stirling, dressed in field clothes, holds an iguana by its tail at Boca San Miguel, Veracruz, Mexico,15 April 1939. Mrs. Stirling was the wife of Matthew Stirling, Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. She played an important role on many expeditions, as companion and collaborator to her husband. In Veracruz, Mexico, they conducted anthropological field work.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7006 Box 174 album 1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1939
- Standard number
- 2004-11240 or 623
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White; Size: 3 x 4; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Mexico
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Animals
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Boca San Miguel
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Field Work
- Iguanas
- Veracruz, Mexico
- Women--History
- Record ID
- siris_sic_6671
