Mexico
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Collection Creator
content: Stirling, Marion
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content: Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers
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content: Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers / Series 1: Field work
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-1998, undated
label: Date
content: bulk 1938-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-24, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in 3 subseries: 1.2.1 Field notes and other documentation, 1938-1998, undated; 1.2.2 Correspondence, 1921-1960; 1.2.3 Photographs, 1933-1971, undated.

All subseries are arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1.2 Mexico, 1921-1998 and undated, primarily comprises materials related to the eight Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society expeditions to Mexico that took place between 1938 and 1946. There are also materials from trips the Stirlings took to Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s. Materials include field notes, correspondence, photographs, expense reports, travel itineraries, and clippings.

Documentation of a number of sites in Mexico, including Tres Zapotes, Cerro de las Mesas, La Venta, Izapa, and San Lorenzo, exist in these materials. Marion accompanied Matthew on almost all of these expeditions and the record keeping appears to have been taken on by primarily by Marion with the bulk of the correspondence being from Marion to Matthew's mother and her parents. Also included are the Stirling's field notes and photographs documenting the journeys to the sites, the logistics of living in the jungle, people they met and worked with, the excavations, and the artifacts that were discovered, including eight colossal Olmec heads.