Frank Hamilton Cushing
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Frank Hamilton Cushing was an American anthropologist and ethnologist who made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture; his work helped establish participan
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Cushing at Zuni, c. 1881-82., by John K. Hillers
The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition occurred between 1886 and 1894 in the American Southwest. Sponsored by Mary Tileston Hemenway, a wealthy widow and philanthropist, the expedition wa
Frank Hamilton Cushing
…was forced to return to Washington, ending his landmark efforts among the New Mexico natives. Cushing returned to Zuni briefly in 1886 as leader of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. He was forced from this position by personal and health problems. In 1889 he was succeeded as leader by ethnologist J. Walter Fewkes, who had little…
Camp Cibola (1888), the expedition's headquarters near Zuni
Fewkes, 1910