There were doubts, author Will Roscoe points out, which is not surprising because every photograph of We’wha indicates masculinity. We’wha spent at least six months in the capital, a visit crowned by a meeting with President Grover Cleveland, and what is astonishing is that nobody-not even anthropologist Stevenson-understood that We’wha was a man. Princess Wawa (sic) goes about every where at all of the receptions and teas of Washington wearing her native dress.” They were accompanied by a broad-shouldered, six-foot Zuni named We’wha, the tallest and strongest member of the tribe, described by the Washington Chronicle as “an Indian princess. In 1885, after several months in the Southwest, anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson and her husband returned to Washington with an unusual collection of Zuni artifacts.
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