Zuni, Hopi, Copan : early anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893 / edited by Curtis M. Hinsley with contributions by Louis A. Hieb, Barbara W. Fash.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

John Owens and Jesse Fewkes at Zuni, 1890 / Curtis M. Hinsley -- The letters from Zuni / edited and annotated by Curtis M. Hinsley -- Trails to Tusayan : John Owens at Hopi, 1891 / Louis A. Hieb -- The letters from Hopi / edited and annotated by Louis A. Hieb -- "In the interest of science" : John Owens and the Peabody Museum's Central American Expedition to Honduras, 1891-1893 / Barbara W. Fash -- The letters from Copan, 1891-1893 / edited and annotated by Barbara W. Fash -- The trail of the letters, 1893-1980 / Curtis M. Hinsley.

"Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893 publishes one hundred letters from John Gundy Owens to Deborah Harker Stratton, currently held in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Owens was one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard University; his poignant letters to "Miss Debbie" trace a budding relationship of affection in late Victorian America and offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages of Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras. Tragically, Owens died at age twenty-seven in Copan; Stratton never married and kept the letters until her own death, nearly fifty years later. Introductory essays by Curtis M. Hinsley, Louis A. Hieb, and Barbara contextualize the annotated letters and shed new light on early anthropological training in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.