Fewkes

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A surname borne by Jesse Walter Fewkes, an American ethnologist known for his studies of Native American cultures
2. The family name of Jesse Walter Fewkes, a United States anthropologist who researched indigenous peoples and archaeology
3. Used as the surname of Jesse Walter Fewkes, a nineteenth and twentieth century American scholar of Native American societies

Etymology: Fewkes is best known as a surname, most notably that of Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850–1930), an American ethnologist and archaeologist. Working for the Bureau of American Ethnology, he recorded Hopi ceremonies and excavated ancient pueblo ruins in the American Southwest, and his publications shaped the early study of those communities.