Kate Cory
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Unknown Unknown 1700.0299.0001.jpg Kate Cory Collection, MS-24 B&W 1977-0269-0003 1700.0299.0001 Print 5x7 Manuscript Collections 1930s - 1950s Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Kate Cory (b. 1861 – d. 1958) with Hopi man in ceremonial dress.
Cory was born in Waukeegan, Illinois on February 8, 1861. At the age of twenty-four, she journeyed alone to Arizona, hoping to become a member of an artist colony there. She became an ethnographer of the Hopi people, living in the pueblo of Old Oraibi, where she was an artist as well as a confidant of the Hopis. She compiled a Hopi dictionary containing over 900 indigenous words and phrases. In addition, Kate Cory was a schoolteacher at the Polacca Day School near the Hopi village of Walpi on First Mesa.
In 1912, Kate moved into a small pueblo style stone house in Prescott in the Idylwild Tract on Thumb Butte Road where she continued to live as simply as on the reservation. She continued her work as artist and sculptor, becoming one of the West’s most famous artists. Kate Cory died on June 12,1958 and is buried in the Arizona Pioneers' Cemetery.
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