'Suffragettski': Maria Czaplicka travelling in a wicker carriage in Siberia, summer 1915 Credit: Pitt Rivers Museum In 1910, Barbara Freire-Marreco, the daughter of a Woking accountant, left England behind and lived and worked among a tribe of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. Three years later, Katherine Routledge sailed to Easter Island to carry out the first true survey of the land and its people, while also attempting to broker negotiations between increasingly angry islanders and the Englishman who managed the farm that formed the island’s economy. (She didn’t make much headway, but she was given chickens and potatoes.) The following year, Maria Czaplicka trekked across 3,000 miles of frozen Siberia gathering information about its indigenous people. Freezing cold and lost in a snowstorm, she finally understood the allure of gulping down the still-warm blood of a freshly slaughtered deer. She was the first white women many of the Siberians had seen, and they joked that she and the other two women of her team were “suffragettski: banished to Siberia by the British government”.