Ruth Leah Bunzel photographs of Quiche peoples of Guatemala
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2007-10
name: label: Creator
content: Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: K'iche'
place: label: Place
content: Guatemala
creator: label: Creator
content: Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990
culture: label: Culture
content: K'iche' Maya (Quiché)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Ruth Leah Bunzel (1898-1990) started a career in anthropology after acquiring a secretarial job with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1922. With support from Boas, Bunzel regularly traveled to the Southwest to study Zuni potters from 1924-1929.  Studying under Boaz, she earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929.  Her papers on Zuni ceremonialism as well as creation myths, kachinas, and poetry were published in the 47th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. From 1930 to 1932 she studied the Highland Mayan village of Chichicastenango and later published Chichicastenango, A Guatemalan Village (1952). She also conducted fieldwork in the village of Chamula in Chiapas, Mexico, and published a comparative study of the two villages entitled "The Role of Alcoholism in Two Central American  Communities" (1940).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 110 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1932
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs found in Bunzel's home on Perry Street in Greenwich Village, NY, after her death. Donated by Arnold Finkelstein, 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2007-10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs probably made by Ruth Bunzel during her fieldwork among the Quiche in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, in 1930-32.  Images include Quiche individuals and families, a church (probably the Church of Santo Tomás), a procession and ceremony, and landscapes.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Ruth Lean Bunzel papers and drawings of Kachinas collected by Bunzel (MS 4609).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence between Bunzel and the BAE held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4846 and records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: A photograph of Bunzel held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 92-35.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: A video oral history of Bunzel, created as part of the "History of Anthropology Series" produced by the University of Florida's Department of Anthropology, is held in the Human Studies Film Archive in HSFA 89.10.8.