Volume 22, Number 9 · May 29, 1975
The Man Who Became an Indian
By Jesse D. Green
Zuñi Breadstuff
by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 673, 27 plates pp., $10.00 (paper)
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was one of those pioneers who get buried by the rush of progress in the very territory they have opened up. Barely known today other than by a few specialists and buffs, Cushing is a central figure in the history of American anthropology. 'Probably the first professional ethnologist,'[1] he is generally credited (in passing references) with having laid the foundations for scientific study of the ethnology and archaeology of the American Southwest. He was the brightest star of the Bureau of American Ethnology in its illustrious first years under the directorship of Major John Wesley Powell, and he had in fact considerable fame in his own lifetime as an investigator of Indians.
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