Letter books of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1886-1896.

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Letter books of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1886-1896.

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Nine letterbooks, much of the correspondence relating to the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, written from Camp Hemenway in Tempe, Arizona. Most of the letters are by Frank Hamilton Cushing or Frederick Hodge. Correspondents include Sylvester Baxter, C.T. Hayden Milling Co., W.W. Fellows, Frederick Hodge, W.H. Porter, C.A. Garlick, Mary Hemenway, L.B. Putney, and Petersen, Armstrong & Co. Some of the letters include illustrations of artifacts and the dig site. There are also laid in items such as telegrams and incoming correspondence. Some of the letter books have a name index at the front. Letter books include: Number 1, November 1886 - July 1887; Number 2, July 1887 - November 1887; Number 3, November 1887 - March 1888; Number 4, October 1887 - July 1888; Number 5, March 1888 - October 1888; Number 6, October 1888 - May 1889, Number 7, February 1890 - May 1892; Number 8, September 1893 - June 1894; Number 9, November 1895 - December 1896.

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956

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Frederick Webb Hodge was an ethnographer, archaeologist, editor and museum director. Hodge's first exposure to archaeology was as secretary of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. When the project was over he returned to work at the Bureau of American Ethnology as Librarian. His work as editor began with the revitalization of the American Anthropologist and carried through his 2 vol. set of the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, to the famous 20 vol. set by Edward S. C...

C.T. Hayden Milling Co.

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Porter, W. H., fl. 1886-1896.

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Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927

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Hemenway, Mary, 1820-1894

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Garlick, C. A.

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Petersen, Armstrong & Co.

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Fellows, W. W.

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Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition 1886-1894

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In 1879, Frank Hamilton Cushing, a leading Smithsonian ethnologist, was asked by the Bureau of American Ethnology to join a collecting expedition that traveled to the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. Here Cushing became convinced that a long-term stay was necessary to conduct his research using pioneering anthropological methodologies of participant-observer and the uniqueness of the "Zuni idea" of culture (Haskell, 1993, p. 10). The Hemenway Expedition to the Southwest was conceived in t...

Huntington Free Library

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Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900

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Ethnologist with Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1879-1900. Studied the Zunis. From the description of Frank Hamilton Cushing envelope to Houghton Mifflin & Co. [manuscript], [1892] Nov 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648006577 Ethnologist. From the description of Letters, 1882-1893. (Southern Methodist University). WorldCat record id: 17700570 Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnographer and early participant observer...

Putney, L. B.

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