Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Matilda Coxe Stevenson, who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was an American anthropologist. She was the first woman ever employed as an anthropologist in the U.S. She was also the first female anthropologist to study the Native Americans of New Mexico. She pioneered the use of photography in ethnology.