Laura Boulton films
name: label: Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
place: label: Place
content: Asia
label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Europe
label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Samoa
label: Place
content: Nepal
topic: label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Ethnological expeditions
label: Topic
content: Hinduism
label: Topic
content: Buddhism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the Laura Boulton Foundation in 1987.
creator: label: Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
culture: label: Culture
content: Bantu-speaking peoples
label: Culture
content: Ovambo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Toda (Indic people)
label: Culture
content: Mandingo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Songhai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Zulu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Tuaregs
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content: Laura Boulton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (16mm)
label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1987.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
label: Type
content: Sound films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: Laura C. Boulton, 1969. The Music Hunter: The Autobiography of a Career. New York: Doubleday.

Laura C. Boulton, 1941. "Timbuktu and Beyond", National Geographic, May 1941. pp-631-670.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film and video of the ethnomusicology collection of Laura C. Boulton, shot primarily by Dr. Boulton among traditional peoples around the world.  (See inventory attached to agreement).

Collection contains supplementary material: associated texts, sound recordings, annotations, sound logs, and field notes.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology has the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music; the Harvard University Archive of World Music (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library) houses Boulton's liturgical music collection; the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress contains wax cylinders, aluminum discs and reel-to-reel tapes of Boulton's field recordings of traditional vocal and instrumental music worldwide; and Smithsonian Folkways has the originals of recordings Boulton made for Folkways Records.