Photograph of a man putting a horseshoe on a horse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bending over, facing away from the camera, with the horse's leg pulled up on his lap. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and brown leather chaps. The white horse seems calm as the man works.
Photograph of a man putting wood into a syrup cooking furnace at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bent over, loading wood at the bottom of the furnace into a large square opening. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped patterned shirt, and jeans.
Photograph of a man sawing a log at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The log has been laid in place on one wall of the log cabin. With a large manual saw, the man is cutting out a groove in the log to create a corner join in which another log will be laid perpendicular.
Photograph of a man selling sausage in the New Braunfels Wurstfest booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man is wearing dark pants, a white shirt, and suspenders and handing a sausage on a stick to a man who just purchased it. The seller is standing next to a large grill topped with about a hundred sausages on a stick. To the left of the male customer, two young female visitors stand behind the grill, outside of the booth, with sausages they just bought. Behind them, other festival visitors are visible.
Photograph of a man, a member of the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas, serving green beer at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a green top hat and a green shirt with a button that says, "Kiss me I'm Irish". He is standing behind a Lone Star beer tap pulling down the spout handle and filling a cup with green beer. Another cup of green beer is sitting on the counter in front of him.
Photograph of a young man shoveling coals to fuel large boiling pots of corn on the cob in the Mexican market at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing an apron and standing to the right of three large black pots sitting on coal furnaces. Some of them are steaming or smoking. Standing next to him are two other workers, also in white aprons. Behind them are several boxes of corn prepared and ready for festival visitors.
Photograph of a man slicing Irish bread in the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The bread is resting on a cutting board on a table in front of him. The man is wearing a navy, short-sleeved, collared shirt with white pants, sunglasses and a baseball cap.
Photograph of members of the San Antonio Conservation Society serving watermelon in the Mexican market at the Texas Folklife Festival. One man slices a watermelon with a large knife while another volunteer beside him watches. Behind them, a woman is arranging the slices on the table. A smiling boy sits in front of the table, watching the men prepare the watermelon.
Photograph of O. D. LaBove, from Sabine Pass, speaking to a crowd about duck and geese hunting at the Texas Folklife Festival. LaBove is on the left side of the photograph, standing at the bottom of a hill between a cluster of reeds and a brown wooden panel. He has a rifle under his arm. He is facing the crowd who is on the right side of the photograph, on the other side of an artificial stream that contains artificial ducks.
Photograph of the sheaf toss sponsored by the Scottish Society of Texas at the Texas Folklife Festival. A man tosses a large burlap bag up high over a horizontal bar. The bag is high in the air while another bag that has been thrown up has almost reached the ground. Many people have gathered to watch. In the background people are watching from atop a hill.
Photograph of Santiago (Jim) DeLeon, from Victoria, welding a metal sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting in front of a low table wearing protective goggles and welding a piece of metal. Several people are watching closely.
Photograph of Joe McMordie, from Austin, whittling a wooden caricature at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is seated, wearing glasses and a blue button-up shirt. He has a moustache and a pipe in his mouth. He is looking down at the piece he is working on, which he holds in his lap.
Photograph of a man playing with a jumping jack at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man is sitting in a wheelchair and holding a thin wooden dowel attached to a white, wooden figure with a black top hat. The man bounces a flat wooden paddle below the figure's feet, causing it to bounce and "jump".
Photograph of an African-American man at the African-American food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is eating black-eyed peas from a plate of food he is holding. In the background, some tables and chairs at the booth are visible.
Photograph of an African-American man at the African-American food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is lifting a pot lid to reveal the contents of a large pan of food that is resting on a table. He is wearing sunglasses, looking toward the camera and smiling.
Photograph of festival storyteller John Russell "Hondo" Crouch, the mayor and co-owner of Luckenbach, Texas at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bending down and holding the hands of a young girl. He is wearing a blue suit and the young girl is wearing a red and white striped dress. According to accompanying information, he is greeting the young visitor.
Photograph of a medicine sweat lodge in Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. The sweat lodge is constructed like a teepee but covered with straw instead of canvas or leather. The top portion of the frame is visible; it is not covered with straw. There is a low and narrow doorway on the front. Five people are standing to the left of the sweat lodge. In the foreground, part of a street is visible. Behind the sweat lodge some trees and a chain-link fence is visible.
Photograph of Melody Porter standing in the pioneer lye soap booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in pioneer clothing, complete with a red bonnet. At the top of the booth two signs read, "Dorothy Buchanan, Pioneer Lye Soap, Bryan, Texas" and, "Evelyn Johnson, Pioneer Lye Soap, Mesquite, Texas". At the front of the booth a basket of soaps is on display. All kinds of soap making materials are visible on a table inside the booth. Hanging at the back of the booth is a painted scene of the inside of a pioneer house, looking out to see desert scenery.
Photograph of Melody Porter, from Center, making lye soap in an iron cauldron at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a pioneer skirt and bonnet, stirring a cauldron that is over a fire. Festival visitors are visible in the background.
Photograph of a young Mexican-American dancer, a member of Ballet de Los Niños from San Antonio, kneeling down onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a gaucho hat, white shirt, gold vest and black pants. People are visible offstage behind her.
Photograph of a bagpipe player of the Houston Highlanders Pipe Band, a Scottish band, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing on an outdoor stage playing a bagpipe behind a microphone. He is dressed in traditional Scottish clothing: a kilt and horsehair sporran. In the foreground, a young boy sits at the front of the stage, watching the performance.
Photograph of a bagpipe player of the Houston Highlanders Pipe Band, a Scottish band, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing onstage playing the bagpipes. He is dressed in traditional Scottish clothing: a plaid kilt, a horsehair sporran, and knee-high socks. The photo is taken from below, looking up at the performer.
Photograph of a bagpipe player of the Houston Highlanders Pipe Band, a Scottish band, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed in traditional Scottish clothing: a plaid kilt and a horsehair sporran. He is playing a set of bagpipes that has plaid bag. The background of the photo is dark.
Photograph of the Houston Irish Pipes and Drums group, performing on a stage at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph features one of the drummers in profile view. He is wearing black pants with a red side stripe, a black military coat and a green beret with a red feather. He standing, playing a marching style drum that is attached to his waist. Behind him other band members are partially visible. In the background, a mesh shade covering that spans above the stage is visible.
Photograph of a 29 Club member, from Center, Texas, sitting in a chair outside at the Texas Folklife Festival. The woman, who is advanced in years, is dressed in a red ruffled dress with bloomers that come down over the knee. With one leg crossed over the other, she seems to be adjusting the ribbons on her slipper.
Photograph of Mexican-American female dancers, members of the Ballet Folklorico from San Antonio, performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are dancing and waving their large ruffled skirts around. Each one is wearing a different colored dress: light blue, orange, green, red, and dark blue. The performance is at night.
Photograph of the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Four men are standing in and around the log cabin in the process of being built. On the left, one man appears to be rolling a log into place. They are all conversing with one another. In the background, the East Texas String Ensemble performs on a flatbed trailer. On the ground in front of them, Bruce Roark stands playing his guitar.
Photograph of the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Two men are splitting logs of wood using double axes or axes with blades on both sides of the head. The partially constructed log cabin is visible in the background as well as several spectators of the wood choppers.
Photograph of a three men preparing sausage in the New Braunfels Wurstfest booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The men are all wearing green lederhosen with white shirts. Two of them men stand in front of a large grill covered in approximately sixty sausages that have each been skewered. One man stands in the foreground at the side of the grill. All three of the men look as if they are rotating the sausages for an even grilling. Behind them is a female booth worker. In the background, there is a hill on which people are sitting and walking.
Photograph of Santiago (Jim) DeLeon, from Victoria, making a metal sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is handling a piece of metal with pliers and wearing protective welding goggles on his forehead.
Photograph of a group of five Mexican-American teenage girls, members of Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio, dancing in costumes onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are grasping their traditional ruffled skirts and twirling them about. Each girl is wearing a different colored dress: red, orange, aqua, and blue dresses are visible. Each dress has horizontal, rainbow-colored ribbons embroidered upon the skirt, the hem of the sleeve, and the chest. Each wears white, heeled boots and a braided scarf in her hair. The photograph is taken from the ground behind the stage, looking across to the audience in the background who is sitting on a hill.
Photograph of young Mexican-American girls, members of the Ballet de Los Niños from San Antonio, doing a traditional Mexican dance at the Texas Folklife Festival. The girls are dressed in colorful, knee-length dresses with fluffy, ruffled skirts. A crowd has gathered on all sides of the stage.
Photograph of Miss Galveston on "Galveston Beach" at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is sponsored by the Galveston Shrimp Festival. She is wearing a bikini and sitting behind a sandcastle. Another woman is sitting to her left and is also wearing a bikini. Both women are smiling.
Photograph of Miss Galveston in a mermaid costume posing on "Galveston Beach" at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is sponsored by the Galveston Shrimp Festival. She is laying on a fisherman's net on the sand next to some pails, shovels, driftwood, and a beach umbrella. Behind her the words "Galveston Island" are displayed on fisherman's net draped across some posts. On the fence in the background, a sign reads "Galveston Beach".
Photograph of the "Galveston Beach" area, sponsored by the Galveston Shrimp Festival, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Miss Galveston, dressed as a mermaid, is sitting beside two boys playing in the sand in the area for sand castle building. She is wearing a green mermaid costume, a sash denoting her title, and a tiara, sitting on a pile of old fish nets. The whole area is covered with sand, and there are shovels and pails around where the two boys are playing. Behind them, a few festival visitors survey the area. A woman with two small children has a big smile on her face. In the foreground, a small fence made of fishing net sections off the area. Attached to it a sign reads, "Shrimp Festival, Sand Castle Building".
Photograph of a Native American Rocky Stallings, Institute of Texan Cultures employee, demonstrating a Cherokee blow gun in the Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is squatting close to the ground with his mouth on the blow gun. Antlers, skins and other native-American wares are visible.
Photograph of beef cooking on an open pit grill in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. The pit grill is in the foreground. A large metal grill panel is positioned over the pit, resting on two support beams which reach across the width of the pit. About twenty large cuts of beef lay out on the grill panel. Behind the pit grill is a red covered wagon. To the left of the pit grill, a dutch oven is hanging from a cross bar. In the right background, a log fence is visible.
Photograph of exhibit floor tour guides preparing to release balloons at the opening of the first Texas Folklife Festival. Eight tour guides, both male and female, are lined up on an outdoor walkway side by side, each holding up a cluster of colorful balloons. A big portion of the sky is included in the image, and the Tower of the Americas is visible in the background.
People are walking by a coupon booth where a woman is selling coupons at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is positioned next to a large sidewalk and has a large umbrella with a sign on top. Three people have stopped to buy coupons at twenty-five cents each. The Institute of Texan Cultures is visible in the background.
Photograph of Tim Wimberly operating a grist mill at the Texas Folklife Festival. The mill was installed by his father, R. K. (Ken) Wimberly, from Austin. The mill is made mostly of wood with a few metal parts. It is powered by a belt that appears to be connected to a nearby tractor axle. Tim is bending over to tend to the area where the cornmeal is dispersed. He is wearing a cowboy hat. In the right foreground, a young girl is partially visible.
Photograph of the Dallas Czech Concert Orchestra performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The orchestra is performing on an outdoor stage at night. The stage has a covering with lights that illuminate the performers, which is a stark contrast to the darkness from which the audience watches. The musicians are all wearing white shirts and black pants. In the center of the stage is the director, Sid Pokladnik.
Photograph of Yayoi Beard explaining origami at the Japanese demonstration booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. A variety of origami figurines of all different colors and shapes are on display. Beard is speaking to an interested female visitor about them.
Photograph of J. W. Broom and Jethro Holmes watering a pair of oxen used to pull an eight-wheel log wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival. Both of them are representatives of the Woodville Dogwood Festival. Broom is standing on the left in front of the oxen, holding a rope that is tied to one ox's halter. This ox is drinking from a metal bucket full of water beneath a water spout. Holmes stands on the other side of the oxen.
Photograph of Jethro Holmes, from Woodville, with a pair of oxen used to pull an eight-wheel log wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on the right, standing on a log, his hand resting on the yoke of the two black oxen. The oxen, standing in the middle of the photograph, are harnessed and stand waiting. A female festival visitor is on the left, petting one of the oxen. In the background, a few logs are visible on the wagon.
Photograph of Jethro Holmes and J.W. Broom with a red eight wheel log wagon, loaned by the W.T. Carter family of Houston, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wagon resembles a trailer and has two supports for logs to be laid across. Behind it, Jethro is sitting on one of the oxen not yet harnessed to the wagon. J.W. Broom is standing to the right of them. To the right of the wagon the other ox stands patiently. In the background, the tower of the Americas is visible.
Photograph of two Tigua Indian dancers, male and female, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man is on the left and wearing white pants, a black shirt, and knee-high, orange moccasins with fringe. Around his head and his waist is a red sash. He is holding some sort of shaker or maraca. The woman stands on the right of him and is wearing a cream-colored, tea-length dress with a red and blue stripe at the hem. She is also wearing a decorative shawl and tan boots. She is holding what appears to be brown feathers.
Photograph of Patricia Mery, Ameleb Club dancer, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a red, yellow, pink, purple and silver belly dancing costume, consisting of a crop top and long-flowing sheer skirt. She is leaning back to her left. The photograph is cropped at her hips and features her against a backdrop of spectators, pennant flags, and a large artificial camel.
Photograph of Pehl's Oompah Band, from Fredericksburg, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band members are seated outdoors in a circle, facing one another. They are dressed in traditional German lederhosen and hats, playing trumpets, a tuba, a saxophone, an accordion and a drum set. Many people are standing around them, watching the performance.
Photograph of Jim Braud, Texas crawfish racing commissioner, and crowd cheering at the crawfish race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud's arms are raised up in the air and he is standing to the left of the racing surface which has a basket in the center. A crowd is gathered to cheer and watch from behind barricades. Some people have their hands raised. The race is outdoors and the Institute of Texan Cultures can be seen off to the right.
Photograph of Jackie Callier and the Rambling Aces, a Cajun band from Port Arthur, Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band is playing on a wooden outdoor stage with a sign displaying their band name. To the left of the stage a couple is dancing. Two people on the left in the foreground are watching the band. Large yellow letters reading "Cajun Country" are displayed on a hill behind the band.
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