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Biography and bibliography of Jesse Walter Fewkes (1919)

In order better to appreciate Indian mythology and ritual, he was initiated into the Antelope and Flute priesthoods of the Hopi, from which relationship many secret ceremonies of this tribe were witnessed and described for the first time. The archæology of the Zuñi and Hopi also interested him, and while connected with the Hemenway Southwestern Expedition Dr. Fewkes gathered in Arizona a large collection of Indian objects which is now on exhibition in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge.
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Biography and bibliography of Jesse Walter Fewkes (1919)

Fewkes had charge of the excavation and repair of the ruin Casa Grande in southern Arizona, an illustrated report on which was published in the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. In the summers of 1908 and 1909 he excavated and repaired Spruce-tree House and Cliff Palace, and in 1915 and 1916, Sun Temple and Far View House, all situated on the Mesa Verde National Park, in southwestern Colorado. In 1909 and 1910 he visited large undescribed cliff-houses in the Navaho National Monument, northern Arizona.
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Biography and bibliography of Jesse Walter Fewkes (1919)

Mary Hemenway, of Boston, he became profoundly interested, in ethnological problems, especially of the Pueblos. In the summer of 1889 and 1890 he [2] visited Zuñi, New Mexico, and in the latter year employed the phonograph in recording primitive music, a method now universally adopted by ethnologists, and in 1891 used the same instrument in recording Hopi songs. The records collected on these trips were transcribed by Mr. B. I. Gilman under the titles “Zuñi Melodies” and “Hopi Songs” and published in the Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, Vols.
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