Correspondence
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: 1957-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2006-22, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Folders are organized chronologically with letters within each folder arranged alphabetically by correspondent.  A folder of undated correspondence can be found at the end of the series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains Bunzel's general professional correspondence. Among her notable correspondents are David Aberle, Franziska Boas, Steve Boggs, Joseph Casagrande, Harold Driver, Abe Edel, Ethel Cutler Freeman, Catharine McClellan, Margaret Mead, George Spindler, Leslie White, Helene Boas Yampolsky, and Mark Zborowski. A few reviews and articles written by Bunzel can be found in her correspondence with journal editors and publishers. In the folder of undated correspondence is a carbon copy of a letter from Bunzel to Margaret Mead regarding how she came to be an anthropologist. The letter was included in Mead's essay, "Apprenticeship Under Boas" in The Anthropology of Franz Boas: Essays on the Centennial of His Birth.  Also of interest are Ethel Cutler Freeman's 1957 manuscript "Seminole Symbolism, a copy of Ruth Landes's grant application (filed under "Jean Morrison" in the folder of 1969 correspondence), and Bunzel's correspondence with Richard and Natalie Woodbury in 1970 regarding the kachina drawings she collected.

Bunzel's correspondence with her students and other Columbia University related letters are in Series 3. Columbia University.