User:Kjmcinty

This is my personal page at Wikipedia which will primarily be dedicated to disseminating information about Bessie Steen Amazon explorer.

Her visit to the Tapirape is verified in Wagley book, but he gets wrong who accompanied her. It was Brazilizn Indian Service officer Colonel Alencarlience de Costa of the Indian Service not a missionary. The information I have accrued about her comes from published magazine and newspaper articles of the time (DesMoines Register, DesMoines, IA) archived documents from the Brazillian Indian Service(letters between Col. deCosta and a Brazillian Anthropologist), Marion County Historical Society, University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives, Bancroft Archies (UC Berkley), Columbia University archives (letters between Elizabeth and Franz Boaz), Smithsonian Archive materials and her actual items brought back in 1931 and sold originally to the High Museum in New York), University of Chicago Archives including paper that she wrote for Radcliffe-Brown,   and family history (she was engaged to my great uncle and wrote to my mother).

She published the book Red Jungle Boy in 1937 (Harcourt). It is the story of a young Caraja boy (she lived with them for eight months on Ihle de Banal. She did the art work and art was her secondary interest.

Here is a link to my page which has the full text and pictures of Red Jungle Boy (to which I own the co18:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Kjmcinty (talk)pyright) and a slide show with photos of her experiences. http://www.karenmcintyre.com/steenindex.htm