Malcolm Carr Collier (née, Malcolm Carr; 1908–1983) was an American anthropologist remembered for her work with the

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. She did field work at

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in the

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in 1936, studied the Navaho in the

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site with Katherine Spencer and Doriane Wooley in 1937, and in 1938, conducted research in the

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area. Her work with Spencer and Wooley, ''Navaho clans and marriage at Pueblo Alto'', was published in 1939. Collier studied at the

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, and she married the archaeologist,

Donald Collier Donald Collier (May 1, 1911 – January 23, 1995) was an archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist. He was known primarily for his work in Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology and spent most of his career at the Field Museum of Natural History. ...

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