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Name
  
Walter Hough


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Died
  
1935, Washington, D.C., United States

Books
  
The Hopi Indians, Antiquities of the Upper Gil, The Hopi Indian Collectio, The Bernadou - Allen and, Antiquities of the Upper Gil

Education
  
West Virginia University

Walter Hough, Ph.D. (1859–1935) was an American ethnologist.

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Life

He was born at Morgantown, West 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 United States National Museum as an assistant (1886–94), as assistant curator of ethnology (1896–1910), and as curator after 1910.

In 1892 he was made Knight of the Order of Isabella when in Madrid as a member of the United States Commission. He was a member of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes' expedition to Arizona (1896–97), went to Mexico, and explored areas of the Southwest.

Publications

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

    Walter Hough Wikipedia