ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.75, March 1882. Letter to Frank Hamilton Cushing, in part: "I am expecting you and the Chiefs tomorrow, Thursday, at 2.30 o'clock. I have invited quite a number of friends to meet you and them and am sorry to find that there is to be a public reception for them at 3.30 p.m. since this will give us very little time. Please excuse my troubling you with further writing, but I am anxious to know whether my interesting guests will like to have luncheon under my roof. If so, it would be better for them to come earlier, say, at a quarter before two o'clock, so that you and they may have time to eat something comfortably before my other invited friends arrive." In fine condition, with intersecting folds. Cushing was an American anthropologist and ethnologist who made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture. In 1881 Cushing was initiated into the warrior society, the Priesthood of the Bow, and received the Zuni name Tenatsali, meaning 'medicine flower.' The following year, Cushing took his Zuni father and fellow Bow members on a tour to the Eastern United States to show them his culture. It was likewise an important seashore pilgrimage for the Zuni who normally made such a journey to the Pacific Ocean; the tribe believed that once in a hundred years the 'Water of sunrise' should be visited, and so they embarked towards the Atlantic Ocean.
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