Background
She was born to a family of Street Mawes in Cornwall, originally from Portugal, and spent her childhood in Horsell, Surrey.
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Barbara Freire-Marreco
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Barbara married Charles Aitken during World War I, meeting while they were employed at the War Trade Intelligence Department. They eventually moved to the county of Hampshire. She remained a student of Balfour, and her education spanned a fellowship at Oxford and as a student of Professor Hobhouse at the London School of Economics.
Her papers were published in Manitoba and read before the British Association.
She took a position at the Pitt Rivers Museum to study for her diploma and remained associated with this institution when this was completed. A collection of her specimens held at the museum.
She became a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1907. Her membership in the Folklore Society from 1926 was preceded by articles in its journal, for which she continued to contribute "Scraps of English folklore", correspondence, and a 1959 study of "processes of localization and relocalization" of folklore.
The results of her fieldwork on the Pueblo peoples, collected in 1910 and 1913, was published by the authors of the Smithsonian"s Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians.
Membership
She was a member of the first class of anthropology students to graduate from Oxford in 1908.
