During nine months of 1930 and 1931, two anthropologists participated in the University of Chicago Expedition of Tarahumara Ethnography, designed to study the Tarahumaras (or the Rarámuri, as they call themselves) of Chihuahua and collect specimens of Sierra Madre fauna. Wendell C. Bennett of the American Museum of Natural History was accompanied by Robert Zingg, still a doctoral student at Chicago. In 1935, the University of Chicago Press published their jointly authored results in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico. Zingg went on to study the Huichol Indians, but between 1937 and 1942 he wrote several articles and reports based on this Tarahumara fieldwork. He also assembled a longer version of his travels in Tarahumara country and submitted it for publication. Although this manuscript recounted a number of interviews and stories already published in The Tarahumara, its style was much less academic than contemporary salvage ethnographies;...
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