COLLECTIONS
The collections of CCDR include those of Dr. Daniel Crowley. He was a professor of folk lore and anthropology. Eleanor King [1906-1991] was a dancer/choreographer, researcher, Fulbright scholar, and author. The collection includes many of her costumes that she used in her performances. Incorporated into the CCDR libraries are her books left to CCDR. Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck is a movement notator, dance historian and author. Housed here in CCDR are filed films by Nahumck.
Gertrude P. Kurath
CCDR houses the vast collection of the dancer and scholar Gertrude Kurath. The collection includes the works of Kurath. Kurath was a dancer throughout her life and a prolific writer. Housed in CCDR are some of the costumes used by Kurath during her performances and lectures. The costumes were either made by Kurath or bought when in the field. Most of the instruments and unique tools used by Kurath are now at CCDR. An example is an armadillo guitar and a rare deer head used by the Yaqui Indians.
At CCDR, Kurath's original manuscripts and journal articles have been cataloged as part of the growing CCDR library. Pictures, films, sound tapes and much much more represent the life of Gertrude Kurath are housed at CCDR.
Dr. Joann W. Kealiinohomoku
CCDR is proud to have Dr. Kealiinohomoku as volunteer director. Dr. Kealiinohomoku is an athropologist, dance ethnologist, author, and one of the three founders of CCDR. CCDR has benefitted from having Dr. Kealiinohomoku as director by housing all her research and memoribilla. She has given many of her collection of instruments and books to CCDR. She is manly responsible for the wide variety of instruments, cultural items and memoribilla that frame CCDR.
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