Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Ruth Underhill
Born: August 22, 1883
Died: August 15, 1984 (aged 100)
Bio: Ruth Murray Underhill was an American anthropologist. She was born in Ossining-on-the-Hudson, New York, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1905 with a degree in Language and Literature.
Known for:
- Papago woman (1979)
- Red Man's America (1953)
- The Autobiography of a Papago Woman (1936)
- Pueblo crafts (1944)
- An Anthropologist's Arrival: A Memoir