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My Adventures in Zuni

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Code: 978-0-86541-045-9
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By Frank H. Cushing

This is Cushing's first person account of his life in Zuni. It was first printed in The Century Magazine 1882-1883.

After a brief period at Cornell University, Frank Cushing was appointed curator of the ethnological department of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. by the director of the Smithsonian Institution. There he came to the attention of John Wesley Powell, director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and was invited by Powell to join an anthropological expedition to New Mexico.

The group traveled by rail to end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, then on to Zuni Pueblo where Cushing remained living with the Zuni from 1879 to 1884. He became fluent in the language, studied the village society and Zuni crafts intently, and was the first white man to join the Priesthood of the Bow.

Cushing's work has been widely recognized among scholars, not only for its accuracy, but also because it became a cornerstone in the construction of knowledge of the Pueblo cultures.

This book also includes two articles by Sylvester Baxter, a reported who visited Cushing at Zuni in 1882: "Father of the Pueblos" and "An Aboriginal Journey."

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