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Entry Personal Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 1089531
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20221031182652.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 830622n| azannaabn n aaa
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: n 83162670
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
- System control number: (OCoLC)oca00986315
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DLC
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Description conventions: rda
- Transcribing agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: NN-PD
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: NN
- Modifying agency: DHU-MS
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: InU
- Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcna
046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES
- Birth date: 1919-11-29
- Death date: 1994-10-29
- Source of date scheme: edtf
100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Primus, Pearl
370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE
- Place of birth: Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Place of death: New Rochelle (N.Y.)
- Associated country: United States
- Other associated place: Liberia
- Source of term: naf
372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY
- Field of activity: Biology
- Field of activity: Medicine
- Field of activity: Health education
- Field of activity: Psychology
- Field of activity: Anthropology
- Field of activity: African diaspora
- Field of activity: Dance
- Field of activity: Choreography
- Field of activity: Teaching
- Field of activity: African American dance
- Source of term: lcsh
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Hunter College
- Associated group: New York University
- Associated group: New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
- Associated group: Five Colleges, Inc.
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Performing Arts Center (Liberia)
- Associated group: Primus-Borde School of Primal Dance (New York City)
374 ## - OCCUPATION
- Occupation: Dancers
- Occupation: Choreographers
- Occupation: College teachers
- Occupation: Anthropologists
- Source of term: lcsh
377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE
- Language code: eng
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Cage, J. Our spring will come, c1977 (a.e.)
- Information found: t.p. (Pearl Primus)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Glover, J. Pearl Primus, c1989:
- Information found: t.p. (Pearl Primus) p. ii (Dr. Pearl E. Primus) p. 158, etc. (born 1919, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Hunter College, B.A. in biology and premedicine; NYU, health education; Hunter College, M.A., psychology; Columbia University, Ph.D., anthropology; prominent in African-American arts and dance)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Dancing times, Dec. 1994:
- Information found: p. 273 (born Trinidad, 11/19/1919; died New Rochelle, NY, 10/29/1994)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Dance Heritage Coalition WWW site, August 28, 2014:
- Information found: 100 Dance Treasures (Pearl Primus; dancer, choreographer; came to NYC as a child; received a scholarship from the New Dance Group; made her dance debut at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in 1943; studied African and African-American material and worked with Asadata Dafora; developed a repertory of dances emphasizing the African diasporic traditions; spent a year in Africa in 1948 with a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant; after returning to New York, opened the Pearl Primus School of Primal Dance; director of the African Performing Arts Center in Monrovia, Liberia in 1961; lectured and taught courses in anthropology and ethnic dance)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: African American National Biography, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
- Information found: (Primus, Pearl; choreographer, dancer, anthropologist, teacher; born 29 November 1919 in Trinidad; graduated from Hunter College of the City University of New York (1940); studied dance in the Caribbean (1953); earned MA in Education (1959) and PhD in Anthropology (1977) from New York University (NYU); received a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation to study in Africa (1948); was a director of Liberia's Performing Arts Center (1959-1961); opened the Primus-Borde School of Primal Dance in New York City and taught anthropology, sociology, and dance (1961); founded the Pearl Primus Dance Language Institute (1978); was professor of ethnic studies at the Five Colleges Inc. (1984-1990); received the National Medal of Arts (1991); died 29 October 1994 in New Rochelle, New York, United States)
678 ## - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA
- Biographical or historical data: Individual was a National Medal of Arts awardee.