Code | DS/UK/1346 |
Dates | 22/07/1857-10/04/1900 |
Person Name | Cushing; Frank Hamilton (22/07/1857-10/04/1900) |
Surname | Cushing |
Forenames | Frank Hamilton |
Activity | Anthropologist and Ethnologist; invited by John Wesley Powell to join the James Stevenson anthropological expedition to New Mexico; lived with Zuni (1879-1884); was succeeded as leader of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition by J. Walter Fewkes. |
History | Studied at Cornell University before being appointed Curator of the ethnological department of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. by the director of the Smithsonian Institution. |
Source | Encyclopedia Britannica; "Frank Hamilton Cushing" in en.wikipedia URL: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hamilton_Cushing> [accessed 17/06/2011]. |
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