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In book: Understanding Others, p. 15-129. Cite this publication.

In book: Understanding Others, p. The chapter looks into the relations between Cushing and the Zuni, notably as portrayed in the sketches in the recent Zuni artist Phil Hughte.

My Adventures in Zuni book. Frank H. Cushing (1857-1900) was a pioneer in the study of Pueblo culture. At age 22 he left New York and lived five years among the Zuñi.

Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington, . was an American anthropologist and ethnologist

Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington, . was an American anthropologist and ethnologist.

Frank Hamilton Cushing.

ISBN 0404118356 Cushing, Frank H. 1979. Zuni: Selected writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing. University of Nebraska Press.

Jesse Green, Sharon Weiner Green and Frank Hamilton Cushing, Cushing at Zuni: The Correspondence and Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1879-1884, Sylvester Baxter and Frank H. Cushing, My Adventurers in Zuni: Including Father of The Pueblos & An Aboriginal Pilgrimage My Adventures in Zuni Frank Hamilton Cushing and Barton Wright, The mythic world of the Zuni Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths, Zuni Coyote. ISBN 0404118356 Cushing, Frank H. ISBN 0803221002 Cushing, Frank H. 1986 (original published in 1901).

Frank Hamilton Cushing, early American ethnographer of the Zuni people. Cushing studied the Zuni culture while making a five-year stay with the tribe, during which he was initiated into the Bow Priest Society. Many of his findings are summarized in Zuñi Folk Tales (1901), Zuñi Creation Myths. Many of his findings are summarized in Zuñi Folk Tales (1901), Zuñi Creation Myths (1896), and My Adventures in Zuñi (1941), as well as in his treatises on native technologies, such as Zuñi Breadstuff. He was an authority on the processes by which artifacts are made, having practiced the aboriginal arts until he mastered them. Cushing studied natural science at Cornell University. A pioneer ethnologist whose work at Zuni Pueblo made him one of the most important white observers of Native American culture in the nineteenth century, Frank Hamilton Cushing was, in his methods and thinking, a forerunner of anthropologists in our own century. Cushing was born July 22, 1857, in the town of Northeast, in Pennsylvania’s Erie county. In 1870 the Cushings moved to western New York, where their thirteen-year-old son quickly began to pursue the interests which would mark his adult life

Frank Hamilton Cushing July 22, 1857- April 10, 1900 was born in Northeastern Pennsylvania, later moving . Three land speculators, including Major W. F. Tucker, arrived in Zuni in late 1882 to claim the parcel for a cattle ranching operation

Frank Hamilton Cushing July 22, 1857- April 10, 1900 was born in Northeastern Pennsylvania, later moving with his family to western New York. As a boy he took an interest in the Native American artifacts in the surrounding countryside and taught himself how to knap flint (make arrowheads and such from flint). Tucker, arrived in Zuni in late 1882 to claim the parcel for a cattle ranching operation. The angered Zunis appealed to Cushing for help, whereby he wrote letters to newspapers in Chicago and Boston in their defense.