Significance of Work
Cushing was an innovator in the development of the anthropological view that all peoples have a culture that they draw from. He was ahead of his time as the first participant observer who entered into and participated in another culture rather than studying and commenting on it as an outside observer.
Thomas Eakins painted him in Zuni costume and John K. Hillers took photographs at Zuni, some showing him as a Bow Priest.
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