Fieldwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rinzler, Ralph
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content: Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.RINZ, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of textual records and photographs deriving from Ralph Rinzler's research as a folklorist and cultural anthropologist. Notable subjects include Onggi, Cajun music, and face jug pottery. The files are arranged in five subseries groups as follows:

1.	General Fieldwork

2.	Korea

3.	Louisiana

4.	Pottery

5.	Photos

General Fieldwork includes artworks, clippings, contact sheets, collected texts, correspondence, notecards, and photos from various projects. Notable subjects include Cape Breton Island in Canada and Native American cultures.

Korea includes brochures, collected texts, correspondence, drawings, manuscript drafts, notes, receipts related to Korean art forms, specifically Onggi pottery. This subseries includes materials from Rinzler's collaboration with Robert Sayers on the book Korean Onggi Potter.

Louisiana includes clippings, correspondence, lyrics, and notes on Cajun music. Notable correspondents include Barry Ancelet, Joan Baez, and Dewey Balfa.

Pottery includes brochures, clippings, correspondence, drawing, and notes related to Ralph Rinzler's interest in the art form. Materials cover the Meaders family, Jugtown Pottery, and the production of the book Raised in Clay by Nancy Sweezy.

Photos covers various different pottery projects that Ralph Rinzler had documented by Tom Jackson and other Smithsonian staff photographers. Processing is ongoing for this sub-series and its arrangement may change over time.