Wonderful Women Wednesday: Erminnie Platt Smith

Anthropologist Erminnie Platt Smith, Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, was an expert in the Iroquois Nation of New York and Canada and the first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work. #Groundbreaker
January 25, 2017, by Effie Kapsalis

Cropped black & white portrait of Erminnie Platt Smith and her family.

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