Margaret Mead

Excerpts from the first diary of Margaret Mead, begun on 14 May 1911, when Mead was 9 years old.

Photograph above is of Margaret Mead and her brother, Richard, taken at Nantucket in 1991.

Margaret Mead's work

Samoa, 1925-26	Samoa, 1925-26
Field trip Manus (Papua New Guinea), 1953-54	Manus house built over the water, at low tide

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