Autograph Letter, signed F.W. Hodge to a friend and colleague regarding his forthcoming sojourn in Arizona and New Mexico this summer

by Frederick Webb Hodge

$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One page, on letterhead of the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. Item #238166 A fine letter from this distinguished American anthropologist, who was involved in one the most widely publicized scholarly controversies of his day: whether the summit of the famous and practically unscaleable Enchanted Mesa of New Mexico had ever been, as local tradition would have it, the site of the original village of the Acoma

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