Beatrice Farnham (February 5, 1876 – February 19, 1979) was a 20th-century American artist and entrepreneur who was notable for her native-American-inspired fashion and handicrafts, her impassioned defense of tribal culture in newspaper interviews, and her outdoor wedding ceremony with noted Colorado park ranger John Otto. Early life Beatrice was born February 5, 1876, in Jefferson, Maine. She was the daughter of Briggs C. Farnham, a farmer who was born in Maine and lived in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, and Minerva or Minnie C. Farnham. She was "brought up in a prim New England style in an ultra-conservative village" in a house that was more than a century old. In the 1880 census, the four-year-old girl was listed as Flover B. Farnham or Flora B. Farnham. She was graduated with high honors from the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco, California, with a specialty of the art of the American Indian. She went among Indian tribes to study their decorations of "pottery, leather things, cloth and basketry." In 1904 Farnham, who had been living in Boston, purchased the Ebenezer Vinson homestead on Randolph Street, South Weymouth, and said she intended to use it as a summer home. Business In the 1910s she was living at 116 Randolph in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Her occupation was given as "designer." Farnham spent three months a year "among the Indians of various tribes, gathering ideas for her work," and for six months she made articles "required by the chain of stores she supplies." She made "Indian novelties, such as curtains, cushions, baskets and indoor decorations." She traveled for three months to various cities in search of business and taking orders. In September 1910, Sarah Comstock interviewed Farnham for Collier's magazine, for an article on women farmers. Farnham told the writer that: I had a studio, and I worked, worked, worked, until I began to feel the pressure — it got heavier and heavier, and I saw what might happen. So I set to work among the chickens. It's wonderful, the lullaby to nerves that lies in their clucks and cheeps. ... But my designing is my real work. Interests Native American culture In 1911, two major newspapers reported Farnham's interest in Native American culture. "The more I see of this boasted civilization, the more I like – Indians," she told Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She added: Civilization! Why the Navajos have a civilization