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Matthew Williams Stirling, 1896-1975

Author(s): Michael D. Coe
Source: American Antiquity, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1976), pp. 67-73
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68 AMERICAN ANTIQUITY [Vol. 41, No. 1, 1976

skeletons and associated artifacts, were subsequently published by AleS Hrdliclca and Waldo Wedel
(BAE Bull. 157, Anthrop. Pap. No. 25).
Matt, however, still had considerable wanderlust left. With his friend Perry J. Patton, he had
explored by bicycle the Paleolithic region of southern France and northern Spain in September
1922. In the spring of 1924, he resigned from the Smithsonian and left the United States in July
with Perry Patton, bound by boat for Lima. They moved directly inland, and proceeded to explore
the Montana and upper Amazon by foot and dugout, crossing the territory of the Campa Indians.
During much of this trip, Patton was ill with malaria and Matt was burdened down with Peruvian
textiles which he had found discarded by huaqueros on the coast.
Dutch New Guinea was Matt's next destination. To help raise money for what was to be the
largest expedition ever to explore that island, he returned to Weeden Island, in the winter of
1924-25, this time to sell real estate. From the end of 1925 to 1927, he was in the field as head of
the joint Smithsonian Institution-Dutch Colonial Government expedition, one that totalled more
than 800 people, including a military escort of 75 Ambonese soldiers, 130 Dyak canoemen and
carriers recruited from central Borneo, and 250 Malay carriers. It was the first time that a plane
had ever flown in Dutch New Guinea, and probably marked the first time serious use had been
made of a plane in scientific exploration on this scale. Extensive work was done in ethnology,
physical anthropology, botany, zoology, and medical research. Twenty thousand feet of motion
picture fllm was made of a Stone Age people who had never before seen outsiders; unfortunately,
most or all of this footage has been ruined in storage. The ethnological materials that Matt made
for the U.S. National Museum make what is probably the largest documented collection ever
gathered from a single tribe.
The Bureau of American Ethnology had been directed by a succession of four men, beginning
with its founder John Wesley Powell, and continuing with William Henry Holmes, Frederick Webb
Hodge, and Jesse Walter Fewkes. In 1928, a special committee selected Matt from a list of eligible
applicants, to become the new Chief, a post that he held until succeeded by Frank H. H. Roberts,
Jr., in 1958. Matt was a born leader of men, and knew how to pick the best; in addition to the
staff that he had inherited, Matt brought in as the opportunity presented itself such outstanding
anthropologists as W. D. Strong, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Julian H. Steward, William N. Fenton,
Gordon R. Willey, Philip Drucker, George M. Foster, Jr., William C. Sturtevant, Winslow Walker,
Alfred Metraux, and Homer G. Barnett. He always considered this roster of talent as his principal
contribution to the Bureau's work.
In 1933, Matt married Marion Illig, who remained hisbeloved companion and collaborator for
the rest of his life. Marion had been Matt's secretary at the Bureau, and had many personal
connections with the staff of the National Geographic Society; through them, Matt eventually
established the contacts that were to see his work supported through some of his most productive
and important years of research.
During the early part of the thirties, Matt undertook a variety of investigations, both
archaeological and ethnological, that reflected the many interests of the Bureau but that did not
quite focus his own career. Among these were several seasons of excavation on the Gulf Coast of
Florida, and a field trip to the Jivaro of the Ecuadorian Montana. The growing WPA program in
archaeology also claimed his attention. Probably more significant was a visit to Copan in Honduras
and Quirigua in Guatemala, drawing his attention to Mesoamerica for the first time.
It will be remembered that Matt had been intrigued with the jade masquette, now called Olmec,
that he had seen many years before in Berlin. He had also been much interested in the article by
Albert Weyerstall which appeared in the Middle American Research Institute Papers in 1932,
describing abundant mounds, sculptures, and pottery artifacts in the Papaloapan Basin of southern
Veracruz, the general area from which certain "Olmec-style" carvings were said to have come. In
1938, Matt and Marion travelled to Mexico with Marion's parents, and he visited Tres Zapotes,
Veracruz, where the first known Colossal Head had been found in the previous century. On their
return, Matt showed a picture of the head to one of the editors of National Geographic, who
the
suggested that Matt request a grant from the NGS Research Committee for an expedition to
site. Through the interest of Alexander Wetmore of the Smithsonian, a member of the Research
Committee, the grant was approved.

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Thus began Matt's long-term field project among Olmec sites of southern Mexico, beginning in
1939 and continuing through 1946, supported by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic
Society. While sporadic Olmec finds had been made over a number of years, it is quite clear that it
was Matt's vision, enthusiasm, and drive that resulted in the discovery of this ancient culture. As
Gordon Willey has pointed out, Matthew Stirling was the John Lloyd Stephens of the Olmec
civilization. This quest, usually with Drucker as assistant archaeologist, took Matt to Tres Zapotes
in 1939 and 1940, to Cerro de las Mesas in 1941, to La Venta in 1942 and 1943, and to San
Lorenzo (which he discovered) in 1945 and 1946, and has been recounted several times (see
Michael D. Coe, America's First Civilization, 1968). Matt was one of the truly lucky
archaeologists; among the highlights of his stupendous discoveries were the finding of Stela C at
Tres Zapotes with its Cycle 7 date, the Cerro de las Mesas jade cache including Olmec heirloom
pieces, the tombs and hidden offerings of La Venta, and the largest of all Colossal Heads,
Monument 1 of San Lorenzo. To him must also go the credit for calling the attention of the
archaeological world to the great site of Izapa in Chiapas, a key center for the transmission of
Olmec culture to the earliest Maya.
The Stirlings had met the late Miguel Covarrubias and his wife Rose on their return from Tres
Zapotes in 1939, and a warm friendship grew up. They shared a deep interest in the Olmec and a
conviction that this was the cultura madre in Mesoamerica, far earlier than the much-vaunted Maya
civilization. It should be said that this vision was shared by Alfonso Caso. The extent of the
opposition to this point of view can hardly be imagined today, when the priority of Olmec is
accepted by all. The Mayanists led the attack, which was hardly a credit to those who claimed to
represent the intellectual achievements of the New World's most advanced civilization. Perhaps no
group of scholars has ever been led in such a degree to the wrong conclusions for the "right"
reasons. Even the Grand Panjandrum of Maya studies, Eric Thompson, badly erred in his attack on
Matt's Stela C paper, by trotting out in awe-inspiring detail all the supposed evidence necessary to
downgrade the Olmec, in an article innocuously entitled "Dating of Certain Inscriptions of
Non-Maya Origin" (1941). It took another twenty to thirty years of dirt archaeology and the
advent of radiocarbon dating to prove Thompson and his colleagues hopelessly wrong, and the
Stirlings/Covarrubias/Caso absolutely right. To all those who like to think that archaeological
knowledge proceeds by popular consensus, this ought to be a lesson. The discovery of the top part
of Stela C in the last few years has fully confirmed Matt's contention that this was a true
Cycle 7
monument, far more ancient than the oldest known Maya dated object.
After eight years of Olmec exploration by the Stirlings, the National Geographic began to be
tired of Colossal Heads and were-jaguar jades, and the Stirlings were encouraged to look for other
fields. Matt had a long-standing interest in Ecuador, and they decided to look for possible
connections between Mesoamerica and South America. From 1948 to 1952 they spent four
seasons digging in Panama (with Gordon Willey as assistant in the first year), one in Manabf
Province of Ecuador in 1957, and a final season in 1964 in the Linea Vieja and Bagaces regions of
Costa Rica.
In "retirement," Matt and Marion traveled extensively around the world, and Matt continued to
do work for archaeology and ethnology as an important member of the Committee for Research
Exploration of the National Geographic Society. Many an archaeological project, particularly
those undertaken by younger members of our profession, owes its support to the direct interest of
Matt on this committee.
Speaking personally, Matt was a prince among men. His incredible kindness to neophytes like
myself was legendary. It is not easy for a scholar to grow old, but Matt achieved the status of elder
statesman with grace and intellect; his interest in his younger colleagues, expecially those who
would "carry the ball for the Olmec," as he characteristically called it, was infinite. Matt was one
of the greatest of all raconteurs, and it is a pity that his tales of early life in California, of the
greats among early twentieth century American anthropologists, and above all of back-country
Veracruz have not been recorded. In January 1973, Matt was operated on for cancer, which
proved eventually to be terminal. He had several miraculous remissions from his fatal disease,
during which time some of us had the great joy of seeing him once more with cigar in one hand

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and whiskey glass in the other, again recounting in his inimitable style his wonderful, humorous
stories of early days in many lands, pursuing the variety of goals that had led his life since those
arrow-collecting hunts of his boyhood in California.
One of the greatest joys of my life was when Matt and Marion came to visit us in San Lorenzo
during the 1967 season. I knew of the high estimation in which the Stirlings were held in that
remote part of the world since their 1945-46 expedition. In fact, I had flagrantly lied to the local
people by claiming to be a godson of "Don Mateo" (or "Don Estirling"), for the latest
archaeologist who had tried to work there had been nearly lynched by the populace. Upon their
arrival, the word that these beloved friends had returned after a quarter of a century was spread to
all the neighboring villages up and down the Coatzacoalcos River drainage. Most of their old
workmen, a people incredibly proud and often violent in the southern Veracruz tradition, came in
from the remote jungles and river settlements. The guitars were tuned up in the warm evening and
the huapango began. In trobas composed and sung on the spur of the moment, these fierce men
expressed their love and respect for "Don Mateo" and "Dona Mariana," after all these years had
passed. I could well understand how the remote ancestors of these Veracruzanos, the mysterious
Olmec, had conferred on Matt the glory of discovering their lost civilization.

MICHAEL D. COE

Acknowledgments. I wish to thank Marion Stirling for providing much of the biographical detail of Matthew
Stirling's life, and for her patience and kindness in answering my many questions.

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