She learned enough Greek in six weeks to pass the Oxford University admissions exams and enrol in a Classics education at Lady Margaret Hall College.
She took a position at the Pitt Rivers Museum to study for her diploma in anthropology and was one of the first two students to undertake the qualification, achieving a Distinction.
[7] The results of her meticulously documented ethnographic fieldwork on the Pueblo peoples were published in the Smithsonian's Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians.
[4] Images from these research trips were included in an exhibition 'Intrepid Women: Fieldwork in Action, 1910–1957' at the Pitt Rivers Museum from 5 October 2018 to 11 March 2019.
[8] Whilst living and working on the reservations she learned the Tewa language and became fluent enough to support the New Mexico pueblos to apply to the United States Government for assistance in enforcing their laws and governmental structures.