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After leaving the Bureau, he moved to [[New York City]] and became editor and assistant director at the [[Museum of the American Indian]], [[The George Gustav Heye Center|Heye Foundation]]. |
After leaving the Bureau, he moved to [[New York City]] and became editor and assistant director at the [[Museum of the American Indian]], [[The George Gustav Heye Center|Heye Foundation]]. |
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[[File:Hendricks-Hodge Expedition to explore and excavate the historic Zuni village of Hawikku.jpg|thumb|Thea (Mrs. George) Heye (second from left), Frederick Webb Hodge (1864-1956, MAI staff member, sixth from left) and George Gustav Heye (seventh from left) posed outdoors with Zuni Indians in front of a plastered adobe structure with vigas and rocks along roof line.]] |
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In 1915, accompanied by the museum’s director [[George Gustav Heye]] and staff member [[George H. Pepper]], Hodge undertook excavations at the [[Nacoochee Mound]] near [[Helen, Georgia]]. Hodge then directed the excavations of the ruins of [[Hawikuh]], near [[Zuni Pueblo]], during the period 1917-23. There are numerous citations on the interactions of these Aborigins with Spanish conquerors, travelers and priests since 1540 onwards: |
In 1915, accompanied by the museum’s director [[George Gustav Heye]] and staff member [[George H. Pepper]], Hodge undertook excavations at the [[Nacoochee Mound]] near [[Helen, Georgia]]. Hodge then directed the excavations of the ruins of [[Hawikuh]], near [[Zuni Pueblo]], during the period 1917-23. There are numerous citations on the interactions of these Aborigins with Spanish conquerors, travelers and priests since 1540 onwards: |
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Frederick W. Hodge (October 28, 1864 – September 28, 1956) was an editor, anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian.
Early years
He was born in Plymouth, England to Edwin and Emily (Webb) Hodge. His parents moved to Washington, D.C. when Frederick was seven years old. In Washington, he attended Cambridge College (George Washington University). He was awarded the honorary degree of Sc.D. by Pomona College in 1933, LL.D. by the University of New Mexico in 1934, and Litt.D. by the University of Southern California in 1943.
Career
He was associated with Columbia University and the U.S. Geological Survey. During the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, he met and later married Margaret Magill, sister of Emily Tennison Magill Cushing, wife of the expeditionary leader, Frank Hamilton Cushing.[1] He was the director of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles. He served as executive officer at the Smithsonian Institution, chairman of the Committee of Editorial Management and the Committee dealing with the Linguistic Families North of Mexico. He was a member of the Committee on Archaeological Nomenclature, the Committee of Policy, the National Research Council, and the Laboratory of Anthropology, School of American Research, Journal of Physical Anthropology, and the Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
Hodge was employed by the Smithsonian Institution in 1901 as executive assistant in charge of International Exchanges, but transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1905, where he worked until February 28, 1918. Hodge was the editor for Edward S. Curtis's monumental series The North American Indian
After leaving the Bureau, he moved to New York City and became editor and assistant director at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Hendricks-Hodge_Expedition_to_explore_and_excavate_the_historic_Zuni_village_of_Hawikku.jpg/220px-Hendricks-Hodge_Expedition_to_explore_and_excavate_the_historic_Zuni_village_of_Hawikku.jpg)
In 1915, accompanied by the museum’s director George Gustav Heye and staff member George H. Pepper, Hodge undertook excavations at the Nacoochee Mound near Helen, Georgia. Hodge then directed the excavations of the ruins of Hawikuh, near Zuni Pueblo, during the period 1917-23. There are numerous citations on the interactions of these Aborigins with Spanish conquerors, travelers and priests since 1540 onwards:
References
- ^ Flint, Richard. "Hodge, Frederick W." New Mexico Office of the State Historian. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
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- Handbook on American Indians, 1906, http://www.snowwowl.com/swolfAIHhandbook.html
- Judd, Neil M., with M.R. Harrington, S.K. Lothrop, and Gene Meany. 1957. Frederick Webb Hodge, 1864-1956. American Antiquity. 22(4):401-404.
External links
- Guide to the Frederick Webb Hodge Papers, 1888-1931. Collection Number: 9065. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections . Cornell University Library
- Provides INFO on the Huntington Free Library Native Collection, transferred from The Bronx, New York, to Cornell Iniversity, in 2004
- Edward_S._Curtis.The North American Indian
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