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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (25) Smithsonian Folklife Festival (18) Ellington, Duke (10) Turner, Lorenzo Dow (9) Schiedt, Duncan P. (6) Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier) (4) Armstrong, Louis (4) DeVincent, Sam (4) Folkways Records (4) Alberto Torres, Heloisa (3) Anacostia Community Museum (3) Asch, Moses (3) Baldus, Herbert (3) Barnouw, Victor (3) Bateson, Mary Catherine (3) Benedict, Ruth (3) Black, Mary B. (3) Boas, Franz (3) Boggs, Stephen Taylor (3) Borri, Rina (3) Bruce, Harold E. (3) Buck, Pearl (3) Bunche, Ralph J. (3) Carneiro, Edison (3) Chilver, E. M. (3) Chilver, Richard (3) Clifton, James A. (3) Colson, Elizabeth F. (3) Daveron, Alexander (3) Densmore, Frances (3) Distler, Marian (3)

Indians of North America (5) Afro-Brazilians (3) Afro-Caribbean cults (3) Brazilians (3) American Indians (2) Limba (African people) (2) Seminole (2) Tunica (2) 10th Naval District Steel Band (1) Acadians (1) Achinese (Indonesian people) (1) African (1) African Americans (1) Africans (1) Afro-Cubans (1) Alabama Indians (1) Almerico, Tony, 1905- (1) American Indian (1) Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) (1) Areyto (1) Ashanti (African people) (1) Ast, Anita (1) Atakapa (1) Audio Engineering Society (1) Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (1) Basques (1) Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 (1) Big Shell Band (1) Biloxi Indians (1) Bomba (Dance) (1) Boston Chorale (1)

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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (35) Archives Center, National Museum of American History (32) National Anthropological Archives (19) Anacostia Community Museum Archives (10) Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art (6) Smithsonian Institution Archives (6) Human Studies Film Archives (4) Archives of American Gardens (2) Archives of American Art (1)