Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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