Ruth Leah Bunzel Papers
The bulk of this collection documents the professional life of Ruth Leah Bunzel from the 1940s to 1970s. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, research files, teaching materials, card files, artwork, and sound recordings.
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been …
Oregon Historical Society's Robert McCoy films
Collection consists of 17 nitrate titles: AUSTRALIA'S WILD NOR-WEST, [COCONUT HARVEST], IN QUAINT HOLLAND, [IN SIAMESE SOCIETY], IN THE SWISS ALPS (discarded), [INTERNATIONAL NEWS NEWS-REEL: GREATEST CHURCH GATHERING IN ANCIENT COLISEUM], [KINETO REVIEW: EASTERN EUROPEAN TRAVELOGUE], LAND O'LEE, MOROCCO THE MYSTERIOUS, NO COMA IN ACOMA, A POLYNESIAN ODYSSEY, RAINBOW, SOME MORE …
Jerome R. Mintz papers
The Jerome R. Mintz Papers document his career as an educator and ethnographic filmmaker. Mintz's papers relate to his research in Andalusia, Spain, among the Hopi, and on Hasidism. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, notes, photographs, publications, and transcriptions. Mitnz's papers also feature course materials from the Jewish studies and anthropology classes he taught at Indiana University.
MS 4731 Codex Hopiensis, Hopi Kachinas
Homovi (Hopi)
Kutcahonauu (Hopi)
Winuta (Hopi)
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Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1978 Festival of American Folklife
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings
bulk 1950-1994
This collection, with bulk dates from 1950-1994, documents the life of Ralph Rinzler and his professional activities as Director of Field Programs for the Newport Folk Festival, Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (formerly the Festival of American Folklife) and the Office of Folklife Programs (now the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage), and the Smithsonian Institution's Assistant Secretary for Public Service. Includes personal papers, business records, correspondence, notes, photographs, audiotapes and field recordings.
