Walter Hough, Ph.D. (April 23, 1859HOUGH, Walter
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who worked for the

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Life

Hough was born at Morgantown,

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. He was educated at Monongalia Academy, West Virginia Agricultural College, and

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(A.B., 1883; Ph.D., 1894). He was employed at the

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as an assistant (1886–1894), as assistant

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of ethnology (1896–1910), and as curator from 1910 until his death in 1935. Though Hough's work revolved around cataloging the museum's collections, he also spent time doing

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field work in the

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. In 1905, Hough unearthed preserved cobs of

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in a cave in

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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. Walter-hough-crop

In 1892, Hough was made Knight of the Order of Isabella when in

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as a member of the United States Commission. He was also a member of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes' expedition to

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(1896–1897).

Publications

"Censers and incense of Mexico and Central America"
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Family

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

References

External links

* * *Christy G. Turner, II and Jacqueline A. Turner
"The First Claim for Cannibalism in the Southwest: Walter Hough's 1901 Discovery at Canyon Butte Ruin 3, Northeastern Arizona"
''American Antiquity'', Vol. 57, No. 4 (Oct., 1992), pp. 661–682 1859 births 1935 deaths 19th-century American explorers Smithsonian Institution people American ethnologists {{US-scientist-stub