Alexander MacGregor Stephen

Alexander MacGregor Stephen was a Scottish-American amateur ethnographer. A miner who emigrated from Scotland to the United States, he spent time with the Hopi of First Mesa and Navajo observing their daily lives.

Biography Alexander M. Stephen was born in Scotland around 1850 and immigrated to the United States sometime before October 1861. He attended the University of Edinburgh where we became trained in metallurgy. During the period of 1880–1894, he either lived with the Hopi or if he lived with friend and local trading post owner, Thomas V Keam. In 1894, while living with the Hopi, Stephen came down with influenza which caused his death. The Navajo Shoemaker (published in the "Proceedings of the United States National Museum", Vol 11, 1889) Pottery of Tusayan (Catalogue of the Keam Collection, unpublished manuscript dated December 29, 1890. Used for "Hopi Pottery Symbols" by Alex Patterson, 1994) Hopi Indians of Arizona (Los Angeles, Ca, Southwest Museum, 1940) Notes about the Navajos (Published in "Canadian Indian", vol 1 1890) Notes on Marriage among the Navajos, Navajo Dress, and Navajo Dwellings (published in Our forest children, v. 3 (1890)) Legend of the Snake Order of the Moquis: As Told by Outsiders (published in Journal of American Folklore, 1888)