The supp. article this week calls him an "oddball," so I googled him. The dude was born in 1857 and was the curator of the ethnological dept at the National Museum in DC by the time he was nineteen. He went on an expedition with John Wesley Powell to New Mexico in 1879 and then just up and moved in with the Zunis. He initially pissed them off because he was so inquisitive, and then they accepted him and made him part of the Priesthood of the Bow. After all that, he died in 1900 after choking on a fishbone in Maine. I love these weirdos!
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