Marion Stirling Pugh

Marion Illig was born in Middletown, New York on May 12, 1911 and graduated from Rider College in 1930. == Archaeological career ==

Illig married Stirling on December 11, 1933. Stirling described her as his "co-explorer, co-author and general co-ordinator". Pugh was a member of the Association of American Geographers and served as the president of the Society of Woman Geographers twice, in 1960–1963 and 1969–1972. She had a long association with the Textile Museum at George Washington Museum, serving as a trustee, secretary, treasurer, vice president and president, and establishing a fund for the acquisition of Latin American textiles. == Personal life and legacy ==

Pugh's first husband Matthew Stirling died in 1975. They had two children, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. (1938–1989) and Ariana Stirling Withers (1942–2015). She was married to John Ramsey Pugh, a retired general involved with the Textile Museum, from 1977 until his death in 1994. While in her 80s, she travelled to Antarctica. She died in Tucson, Arizona, on April 24, 2001. The Stirling archives were donated by their grandchildren to the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution in 2006. == Selected publications ==

• Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Tarqui, an early site in Manabi Province, Ecuador." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 63, Bulletin 196 (1963): 1–28. • Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Archaeological notes on Almirante Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 72, Bulletin 191 (1964): 255–284. • Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "The archeology of Taboga, Uraba and Taboguila Islands, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 73, Bulletin 191 (1964): 285–348. • Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "El Limon, an early tomb site in Cocle Province, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 71, Bulletin 191 (1964): 247–254. == References ==