Carobeth Laird

Carobeth Tucker was born in Coleman, Texas. She discovered her facility for languages during a trip to Mexico during the summer of 1909. After giving birth to her first daughter, Elisabeth, at age seventeen, in 1915, she enrolled in the San Diego Normal School, where she took a course in linguistics that was taught by John P. Harrington, an extremely productive and eccentric linguist and ethnographer. Harrington was impressed by Tucker's facility with languages, and they were married in the following year. They had one daughter, Awona. == Career ==

Tucker assisted Harrington in his field work for the Bureau of American Ethnology and learned ethnographic skills from him. For seven years, she traveled with Harrington through California and the Southwest and helped compile a huge amount of ethnographic notes. ==Bibliography==