Sidney Robertson Cowell
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Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins in San Francisco, California, United States, 1903; d. 1995) was an American ethnographer and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell.
She collected a large volume of American folk songs between 1936 and 1957, particularly for the WPA Northern California Folk Music Project (1938-1940), which she initiated.
In her later life, she lived in Shady, New York, United States.
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