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'''Mary Elizabeth Smith''' (August 2, 1932 – December 10, 2004) was an American Mayanist.
Mary Elizabeth Smith was born on August 2, 1932, in [[Three Rivers, Michigan]].<ref name="GF" />
Smith studied [[Mixtec writing]], having dedicated at least four decades of her academic career to the field.<ref name="König 2005" /> One recurring theory in her work was the "Nahuatl-speaking corridor" in the western area of [[La Mixteca]], later confirmed by other academics.<ref name="König 2005" /> In 1991, she and Ross Parmenter co-authored ''The Codex Tulane'', a monograph on a Mixtec manuscript held in Tulane's Latin American Library.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Codex Tulane |url=https://mariecom.wp.tulane.edu/product/the-codex-tulane/ |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=Middle American Research Institute}}</ref> She later published another monograph in 1998, ''The Codex López Ruiz''.<ref name="König 2005" />
In 1977,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Elizabeth Smith |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/mary-elizabeth-smith |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=Guggenheim Fellowships}}</ref> she was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] "for a study of the pictorial manuscripts of the valley of Nochixtlán".<ref name="GF">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zgkAQAAIAAJ |title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=1977 |pages=105}}</ref>
Smith died on December 10, 2004.<ref name="König 2005">{{Cite journal |last=König |first=Viola |date=2005 |title=Mary E. Smith's interpretation of the Codex Tulane, the Codex López Ruíz, and other documents: Some conclusions on the role of Tlaxiaco in the western part of the Mixteca Alta |journal=Mexicon |volume=27 |issue=6 |pages=112–115 |issn=0720-5988}}</ref>
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{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}}
'''Mary Elizabeth Smith''' (August 2, 1932 – December 10, 2004) was an American Mayanist.
Mary Elizabeth Smith was born on August 2, 1932, in [[Three Rivers, Michigan]].<ref name="GF" />
Smith studied [[Mixtec writing]], having dedicated at least four decades of her academic career to the field.<ref name="König 2005" /> One recurring theory in her work was the "Nahuatl-speaking corridor" in the western area of [[La Mixteca]], later confirmed by other academics.<ref name="König 2005" /> In 1991, she and Ross Parmenter co-authored ''The Codex Tulane'', a monograph on a Mixtec manuscript held in Tulane's Latin American Library.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Codex Tulane |url=https://mariecom.wp.tulane.edu/product/the-codex-tulane/ |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=Middle American Research Institute}}</ref> She later published another monograph in 1998, ''The Codex López Ruiz''.<ref name="König 2005" />
In 1977,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Elizabeth Smith |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/mary-elizabeth-smith |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=Guggenheim Fellowships}}</ref> she was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] "for a study of the pictorial manuscripts of the valley of Nochixtlán".<ref name="GF">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zgkAQAAIAAJ |title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=1977 |pages=105}}</ref>
Smith died on December 10, 2004.<ref name="König 2005">{{Cite journal |last=König |first=Viola |date=2005 |title=Mary E. Smith's interpretation of the Codex Tulane, the Codex López Ruíz, and other documents: Some conclusions on the role of Tlaxiaco in the western part of the Mixteca Alta |journal=Mexicon |volume=27 |issue=6 |pages=112–115 |issn=0720-5988}}</ref>
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