This collection consists of personal papers and photographs belonging to Gene Meany Hodge and Frederick Webb Hodge. Gene Meany Hodge (1898-1989) was an artist who specialized in Southwestern themes and worked with the Indian Arts Fund (Santa Fe) for 24 years. She was Frederick Hodge's third wife. Frederick Webb Hodge (1864-1956) was a preeminent ethnologist, archaeologist, and expert in Native American studies. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and served as Director of the Southwest Museum for 23 years.

Frederick Webb Hodge (1864-1956), son of Edwin and Emily Hodge, was born in Plymouth, England on 1864 October 28. His family moved to Washington D.C. when he was seven years old. Hodge attended what is now known as George Washington University and studied to be a stenographer. After briefly working in a law office, he became secretary of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1884-1886. He was secretary to the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition from 1886 through 1889, where he was introduced to the field of archaeology and the cultures of the Southwest. After the expedition, Hodge returned to Washington to work with the Bureau of American Ethnology. In 1895, Hodge visited every pueblo in New Mexico and Arizona to gather data for what would become the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexicofor the Smithsonian Institution. It was during this field work that he earned the Zuni nickname Téluli for "He who digs in his own cellar." In 1901, he became an executive officer of the Smithsonian Institution, a post he held until 1905 when he transferred back to the Bureau. Upon completion of theHandbook in 1910, Hodge was made Ethnologist-in-Charge of the Bureau, where he remained for eight years.

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