In the spring of 1910 he made a visit to the Isle of Pines, Cuba, and
the Grand Cayman, and in the winter of 1912 he made a trip to the
Lesser Antilles, excavating Indian mounds in Trinidad. The following
winter (1913) was spent in Europe, studying collections of West Indian
objects in the ethnological museums in Germany and Denmark. On that
visit he crossed the Mediterranean to Egypt and ascended the Nile to
the first cataract; on his return he revisited Greece and southern
Italy.
From a large collection of prehistoric pottery made in the Mimbres
Valley near Deming, New Mexico, in 1915, he was able to show the
existence in that valley of an extinct people with a characteristic
ceramic art. The summers of 1917 and 1918 were devoted to field work
among the prehistoric towers and castles of southwestern Colorado.
The zoological researches of Dr. Fewkes are mainly on the lower marine
invertebrata, Medusæ, Echinodermata, and Vermes; his ethnological
contributions deal with the Zuñi and Hopi Indians; his archæological
studies cover a more extensive area, including the Southwest, the
Antilles, and eastern Mexico.
Dr. Fewkes was honored in 1893 by Maria Cristina, Queen Regent of
Spain, with the decoration, “Isabel la Catolica,” grade of knight; and
in 1894 received from King Oscar of Sweden a gold medal, “Litteris
et Artibus,” for his discoveries in anthropology. He is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Corresponding Member of
the Essex Institute; Royal Anthropological Society, Florence, Italy;
Société des Americanists (1907-); Berlin Society of Anthropology;
Sociedad Antonio Alzarte, Mexico; Boston Society of Natural History,
of which he was secretary for several years; Naturalists’ Society;
President of the Anthropological Society of Washington (two terms
1909-10); President American Anthropological Association; associate
editor, American Anthropologist and Bulletin of the American
Geographical Society; and Vice-President (1911, 1912, 1915), Section
H, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Folk-Lore
Society. He was editor of the Journal of American Ethnology and
Archæology, of which five volumes have been published, and has been for
several years one of the committee appointed by the Overseers to visit
the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge; Member American
Antiquarian Society (1914-); Member National Academy of Sciences
(1914-); Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology (1895-1917); Chief,
Bureau of American Ethnology (1918-). He was official representative of
the Smithsonian Institution at the inauguration of Dr. von Klein Smid
as President of the University of Arizona, in January, 1915, from which
he received the degree of LL.D. for services to anthropology.
Married at Cambridge, October 8, 1883, to Florence Gorges Eastman, who
died May 3, 1888, and again married at Roxbury, April 14, 1893, to
Harriet Olivia Cutler. His home is at Forest Glen, Maryland.
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