# Mabel Cook Cole

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**Mabel Cook Cole** (April 18, 1880 – November 23, 1977) was an American writer and anthropologist. She specialized in the study of ancient humans, and in studying the people of the Philippines and Malaysia.

## Early life and education

Mabel Elizabeth Cook was born in [Plano, Illinois](/source/Plano,_Illinois), the daughter of Amer Brewer Cook and Ella Augusta Webster Cook. She graduated from [Plano High School](/source/Plano_High_School_(Illinois)), and in 1903 from [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University).[1]

## Career

Cole taught anthropology courses at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University).[2] She studied folk culture and stories in the Philippines and Malaysia,[3][4] and made recordings of songs and spoken tales.[5] She also assisted her husband [Fay-Cooper Cole](/source/Fay-Cooper_Cole) in research, and in writing about their findings.[6] She was a member of the [P.E.O. Sisterhood](/source/P.E.O._Sisterhood) philanthropic organization,[7] the [Society of Women Geographers](/source/Society_of_Woman_Geographers),[8] and the [National League of American Pen Women](/source/National_League_of_American_Pen_Women).[9] The Coles retired to California in 1948.[10]

## Publications

Cole's *Philippine Folk Tales* (1916) were "literary retellings with the aim of making acceptable narratives", according to one review.[11]

- *Philippine Folk Tales* (1916)[12]
- "Homeless Husbands" (1924)[13]
- *Savage Gentlemen* (1929, memoir)[14][15]
- "The Island of Nias, at the edge of the world" (1931)[16]
- *The Story of Man* (1938, with Fay-Cooper Cole)[17]
- *The Story of Primitive Man* (1940, with Fay-Cooper Cole)

## Personal life

Cook married fellow anthropologist Fay-Cooper Cole.[15] They had one child, Lamont. Her husband died in 1961,[18] and Cole died in 1977, at the age of 97, in [Pomona, California](/source/Pomona,_California).[1][2]

## References

1. ["Obituary for Mabel C. Cole"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/progress-bulletin-obituary-for-mabel-c/146652811/). *Progress Bulletin*. 1977-11-27. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. ["Mabel Cook Cole"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-mabel-cook-cole/146652127/). *The Ithaca Journal*. 1977-11-25. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Fitzgerald, Helen (1930-08-10). ["Is Member of Head Hunter Tribe"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-is-member-of-he/146654085/). *The Brooklyn Daily Eagle*. p. 63. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. ["Today's Women: Mabel Cole"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-todays-women-mabel-co/146654775/). *The Buffalo News*. 1931-04-18. p. 31. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. McNamara, Sue (1930-02-22). ["Woman's Way Among Savages Smoothed with Tunes on Wax"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/freeport-journal-standard-womans-way-am/146653146/). *Freeport Journal-Standard*. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Cruz, Ruby Ann B. Dela, Wayne Orchiston, Rose Ann B. Bautista, Princess B. Tucio, Jesus Rodrigo F. Torres, and Ryan Manuel D. Guido. ["Mabel Cook Cole’s Philippine Folk Tales: An Ethnoastronomical Analysis"](https://doi.org/10.3724%2FSP.J.1440-2807.2022.02.06) *Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage* 25, no. 2 (2022): 237-271.

1. ["P. E. O. Sisterhood Honors Its Supreme President"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-p-e-o-sisterhood-honors/140971542/). *Evening star*. 1930-04-20. p. 33. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. ["Visitors to Lend Interest to Social Life; Prominent Folk Go to Riviera"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news-visitors-to-lend-int/146654578/). *The Birmingham News*. 1930-02-02. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. ["Washington Society"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-washington-society/146653615/). *Chicago Tribune*. 1930-04-22. p. 33. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Holcombe, Chet (1948-10-07). ["Couple Back 'Home' After Years of Writing, Travels"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-barbara-news-press-couple-back-ho/146653792/). *Santa Barbara News-Press*. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. F., D. S. (1917). ["Review of Mabel Cook Cole"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/534352). *The Journal of American Folklore*. **30** (116): 280–281. [doi:10.2307/534352](https://doi.org/10.2307/534352). [ISSN 0021-8715](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0021-8715). [JSTOR 534352](https://www.jstor.org/stable/534352)

1. [*Philippine Folk Tales*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LLbfAAAAMAAJ&q=Mabel+Cook+Cole). A. C. McClurg & Company. 1916. ISBN 978-1-4142-3620-9.

1. ["The Magazines"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-morning-republican-the-magazi/146652655/). *The Fresno Morning Republican*. 1924-08-10. p. 20. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Cole, Mabel Cook (1929). [*Savage Gentlemen*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pbMsAAAAMAAJ&q=Mabel+Cook+Cole). D. Van Nostrand Company, Incorporated.

1. ["Jungle Honeymoon; An Anthropologist Takes His Bride to Wilds of Philippines"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-missourian-jungle-honeymoon-an/146652454/). *Columbia Missourian*. 1929-10-19. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Cole, Mabel Cook. "The Island of Nias, at the Edge of the World" *National Geographic* 60(2)(1931): 201-224.

1. ["Readers Enriched by Wonder Series; Volumes Unfold New Worlds of Culture and Learning"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-readers-enrich/146655125/). *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. 1937-10-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-05. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Eggan, Fred (June 1963). ["Fay-Cooper Cole 1881–1961"](https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00090). *American Anthropologist*. **65** (3): 641–648. [doi:10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00090](https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00090). [ISSN 0002-7294](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0002-7294)

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