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Auteur

Walter Hough

1859–1935

Naissance
1859, Morgantown
Décès
1935
Profession
Explorateur ou exploratrice

Vie et œuvre

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Walter Hough, Ph.D. (April 23, 1859–1935) was an American ethnologist who worked for the Smithsonian Institution.

Life

Hough was born at Morgantown, Virginia. He was educated at Monongalia Academy, West Virginia Agricultural College, and West Virginia University (A.B., 1883; Ph.D., 1894).

He was employed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History as an assistant (1886–1894), as assistant curator of ethnology (1896–1910), and as curator from 1910 until his death in 1935.

In 1892, Hough was made Knight of the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica when in Madrid as a member of the United States Commission. He was also a member of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes' expedition to Arizona (1896–1897).

Though Hough's work revolved around cataloging the museum's collections, he also spent time doing archaeological field work in the American Southwest.

In 1905, Hough unearthed preserved cobs of maize in a cave in New Mexico that helped subsequent archaeologists determine that the Mogollon ethnic group inhabited the area before the Anasazi Puebloans, who were previously considered to be the area's earliest inhabitants.

Publications

"Censers and incense of Mexico and Central America"—full online copy at HathiTrust

Family

Hough married Myrtle Zuck, a botanical collector, of Holbrook, Arizona on the 29 December 29, 1897.

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Collection

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