Frank Hamilton Cushing at the Zuni Indians, woodcut, published 1888 - stock illustration

Frank Hamilton Cushing (American anthropologist and ethnologist, 1857 - 1900) at the Zuni Indians during a religious ritual on the seashore before filling of water bottles. Cushing made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture. He was an innovator in the development of the anthropological view that all peoples have a culture from which they draw. Wood engraving, published in 1888.