Mary Cabot Wheelwright

Mary Cabot Wheelwright
young girl standing with blue sash.
A portrait of Wheelwright at age four, painted by American artist Frank Duveneck
BornOctober 2, 1878
DiedJuly 29, 1958(1958-07-29) (aged 79)
Occupation(s)anthropologist and museum founder

Mary Cabot Wheelwright (October 2, 1878 – July 29, 1958) was an American anthropologist and museum founder. She established the museum which is now called Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, in 1937[1] along with Hosteen Klah.[2]

  1. ^ "Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian—American Southwest—A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  2. ^ Niederman, Sharon (1988). A Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860–1960. Big Earth Publishing. pp. 137–152. ISBN 9781555660475.