Inventory: The Katherine Dunham Collection finding aid Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 2004 monographic adult dunham IHAS The Katherine Dunham Collection consists of materials purchased from the archives of the Dunham Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, and is made possible through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Collection comprises 1,694 items in a variety of video/motion picture formats. It documents many aspects of Dunham?s dance career: her work as a choreographer, her dance technique and teaching method, various of her performances and productions, and her anthropological analysis of the dance and ritual of the African diaspora. The Collection also testifies to her global activism and leadership in the field of human rights and her advocacy of African American causes in her community. 20380 200006106 200006106 20380 dunham IHAS DLC IHAS 070306 loc.natlib.ihas.200006106