Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990
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content: Ruth Leah Bunzel Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2006-22, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains watercolor, crayon, and ink drawings of Hopi and Zuni kachinas that Bunzel collected during her fieldwork in the Southwest. Most of the drawings were already numbered and are thus arranged in numerical order. The drawings in Box 26, most of which have numbers written on the front and back, are arranged according to the numbers on the back.  

The drawings in Box 25 were originally stored in a manila envelope with "Zuni Katcinas (Spiers --Parsons)" written on the front. A photocopy of the envelope along with a handwritten list of different Zuni kachinas can be found in the box. The drawings in Box 25 are all of Zuni kachinas and appear to have been drawn by one artist. The Zuni names as well as their common names and possibly Hopi names are written on the back of the drawings. 

Box 26 contains drawings of Hopi kachinas mixed with a few of Zuni kachinas. These drawings appear to have been drawn at a later date than the drawings in Box 25. The drawings also appear to have been by 4 or 5 different artists with a few drawings signed by Porter Timeche from Toreva, Arizona. Some of the drawings also have writing on the reverse indicating the name of the kachinas.

Boxes 27-29 contain drawings of Zuni kachinas that were published in The Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1932).  These drawings were previously described under MS 4609.