Marion Stirling with an Iguana, Veracruz, Mexico

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.

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

Notes

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.

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

Date

1939

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Archaeology
• Veracruz, Mexico
• Animals
• Boca San Miguel
• Anthropology
• Explorations and Expeditions
• Field Work
• History
• Iguanas
• Women--History

Place

Mexico

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

2004-11240 or 623

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White; Size: 3 x 4; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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