MS 2009-06 Frank H. Cushing papers
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2009-06
label: General
content: Historian Curtis Hinsley examined the manuscript in September 2009. He believes that Cushing was the author of this work, but it is not written in Cushing's own hand.
name: label: Creator
content: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore
label: Topic
content: Manners and customs
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was a noted anthropologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (linear inches 1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1875-1897
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Kent Van Allen.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2009-06
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Poems
label: Type
content: Drafts (documents)
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Journals (periodicals)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Poems
label: Genre/Form
content: Drafts (documents)
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Journals (periodicals)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains the papers of Frank Hamilton Cushing. The collection, which dates from circa 1875-1897, includes a poem, "The sun is sinking to the west," dated June 10, 1875; drafts of a letter sent to Spencer Baird, 1875; a manuscript concerning customs written in a shaky hand on badly deteriorated ledger paper; a Smithsonian official receipt for a "collection of bone implements"; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings; autographed copies of the American Journal of Folklore and the Canadian Indian; copies of Cushing's own publications inscribed to various family members; and a manuscript concerning social life and customs, written in a shaky hand on badly deteriorated ledger paper. This manuscript has writing in a different hand on the reverse.