Marian Smith

Marian Wesley Smith became Marian Wesley Akehurst (May 10, 1907 – May 2, 1961) was an American anthropologist who was a leader in the American and British organisations. Life Smith was born in New York City in 1907. When she was three she had polio which left her with a paralysed leg. She attended Columbia University graduating in 1934. She gained her doctorate and she was the last student of Frank Boas. In 1940 she published The Puyallup-Nisqually. Nisqually and Puyallup peoples are Native Americans based in Washington State. She rose to take leading positions in the American Folklore Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science before she was forty she became the President of the American Ethnological Society.