abstract:Natalie Curtis (also cited by her married name, Natalie Curtis Burlin) (born April 26, 1875, in New York City; died October 23, 1921, in Paris, France) was an American ethnomusicologist. Curtis, along with Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Frances Densmore, was one of a small group of women doing important ethnological studies in North America at the beginning of the 20th century.
Though that book has become an icon the movie version starred Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood it was the job it led to for which Gurley Brown would ultimately become world famous.