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[Voices of the Mainland]

Description: Photograph of Voices of the Mainland performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The group is five African-American men: one drummer and four singers, one of which is also playing guitar. Three singers are standing in a row behind microphone stands and one is out in front, holding the microphone in his hand. The drummer is in the back, next to a piano.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Leading Gospel Group Performance]

Description: Photograph of a gospel group performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are being directed by a man in a blue plaid suit standing at the front of the stage. Behind him an audience is visible, seated on the grass. A small group of nicely-dressed men and women make up the gospel group; they are visible onstage from behind. An electric piano is also onstage in the left foreground.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Zaragoza Guajardo Next to Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of musician Zaragoza Guajardo, fiddle player with the Devine Music Makers, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing with his arm propped against the side of a log cabin where a cow skull is hanging. He is wearing a white shirt and gold-rimmed glasses. He has a receding gray hairline and dark eyebrows.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Argentine Folk Dancers]

Description: Photograph of two Argentine folk dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival. The two girls are posing with their fists up in the air clutching a stick, crossing arms with each other. They are wearing white shirts, with black vests and decorative headbands. The girl on the right is wearing a blue scarf around her neck and the girl on the left is wearing a red one.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of two Mexican folk dancers performing "La Raspa" at the Texas Folklife Festival. A young girl and boy in traditional Mexican costume are dancing together onstage. The boy is wearing black pants with white piping, a red sash, and a white shirt. The girl is wearing a red skirt with a white hem and colorful stripes near the hem. She is also wearing a white peasant blouse with stripes on the collar. Her hair is done in pig tails and decorated with ribbons. Several spectators are visible… more
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man and Woman from Gospel Group Singing]

Description: Photograph of a man and a woman singing in a gospel group at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man is on the left, in the foreground. He has a short afro and goatee, speckled with gray hair. It is night but he is wearing aviator sunglasses. He is wearing a patterned, collared shirt and a white vest. The woman is to the right and a little further away. She is wearing a green top. Both performers have their mouths open to sing.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Mexican Folk Dancers]

Description: Photograph of two Mexican folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A young boy and girl, dressed in traditional Mexican clothing, are dancing together onstage in front of an audience. The girl is wearing a red, green, and white dress with decorative bead work and embroidery on the skirt which she is twirling around. The boy is wearing a red suit with white trim, and a green sash around his waist.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Alabama-Coushatta Indian Drummer]

Description: Photograph of Jack Batisse, an Alabama-Coushatta Indian drummer, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing traditional tribal clothing: a blue shirt decorated with red and yellow ribbons, a headdress with white and brown feathers, a beaded necklace and an armband. He is holding a large mallet and beating a drum in front of him. Festival visitors are visible standing behind him.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rocky Stallings and Cow Skull]

Description: Photograph of Rocky Stallings explaining Native American customs and natural medicines at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on the left wearing a southwestern inspired shirt, brown leather pants with fringe, a beaded bib necklace, a red bandana around his neck and a beaded headband. To the right a cow skull and the doorway of a teepee are visible.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Women in Polish Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of two women in the Polish food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are making some kind of fruit pastry. The woman on the right is scooping peaches onto a flat, round pastry bread while the woman on the left is folding up the pastry. They are both wearing traditional outfits: peasant blouses with large, lace-trimmed sleeves; fitted, lace-up, embroidered vests; long skirts and floral headbands.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl Holding Piñata]

Description: Photograph of a girl holding a piñata at a booth where they are being sold at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has log brown hair and is wearing a traditional Mexican blouse with colorful crosstiching. The piñata is a yellow burro with pink ears and a blue halter. In the background, several piñatas are visible.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Val Marie Maxey Clapping Along]

Description: Photograph of Val Marie Maxey, of Voices of the Mainland gospel group from Texas City, at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a loose, tribal-patterned blouse of red and yellow, a white wide-brimmed sunhat, and large sunglasses. She is clapping her hands and concentrating on something out of frame to the right.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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