Cosgrove, Harriet, 1887–1970

Harriet "Hattie" Siliman Cosgrove (1887–1970); archaeologist trained in the Southwestern United States; fascination for archeology first started when she moved to Silver City, New Mexico, in 1906 with her husband Cornelius; in 1919 the Cosgroves bought land in Grant County, New Mexico and began excavating Mimbres Valley ceramics; in the 1920s the Cosgroves met Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885–1963), at the time curator of North American Archeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum; the Cosgroves were later hired in 1924 by Harvard University's Peabody museum through the help of Kidder; the Cosgroves’ first professional archaeology endeavor was to excavate the Swarts Ruin, also known as the Swarts Ranch Ruin; they also worked at the Gila River site in New Mexico 1928-29 and at Stalling island in Georgia; the last site worked on by the Cosgroves was the Hopi Pueblo of Awatovi in Arizona; son Burton Cosgrove died in 1936 during the first year of the project; Harriet returned to the site in 1937 and was placed in charge of the pottery tent on the site.