L.S.M. Curtin papers
Pelvin Newman Sacaton Reservation, May, 1941.
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1930-1953
Papers, 1930-1953 (bulk 1940-1953), of ethnobotanist, naturalist, and author L.S.M. Curtin. Includes business and personal correspondence, fieldwork, photographs and negatives, maps, printed material, and a manuscript of her published monograph
L. S. M. Curtin was an avid naturalist, ethnobotanist, and a published author. Her ethnobotanical research was primarily concerned with the use of herbs and plants being used as diet staples and medicine among southwestern ethnic and indigenous groups. She is the author of four published monographs and various journal articles. Her extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork led to the publication of her two most noted works,
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