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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Demonstration]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, two boys stand together on stage, wearing traditional Native-American dress including beaded earrings, headdresses, and necklaces.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Demonstration]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a boy stands on stage wearing traditional Native-American dress, including a feathered headdress and beaded necklaces.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a boy stands on stage wearing traditional Native-American dress, including a feathered headdress and beaded necklaces.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers perform on a concrete stage underneath a yellow and orange canopy. A large audience of festival participants sit along the edges of the stage as the dancers perform.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta singer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The singer wears a white headdress with blue beading, matching jewelry, and a purple dress. Festival participants watch her perform from the perimeter of the stage.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a young woman stands in between a young girl and boy. The dancers wear traditional Native-American dress including beaded earrings, headdresses, and necklaces.
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[Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association Exhibit]
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Photograph of two girls holding goats at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The children, both wearing pink shirts, kneel in the hay holding their goats. The animals are part of the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association Exhibit within the festival itself.
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[Alamo City Highlander]
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Photograph of a member of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a plaid beret with a feather and a metal insignia attached to it. He plays a large snare drum attached to his chest with the words, "Alamo City Highlanders," printed on the side.
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[Alamo City Highlanders]
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Photograph of the opening parade of the 9th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio Texas. Members of the Alamo City Highlanders play the bagpipes as they walk along a wide street in front of the Institute of Texas Cultures. The men wear tan shirts with red plaid kilts, red socks, and black leather boots as they perform for the audience.
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[Alamo City Highlanders Presentation]
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Photograph of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Members of the band wear traditional Scottish dress including plaid kilts and berets as they play bagpipes.
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[Allen Damron Playing Guitar]
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Photograph of Allen Damron performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Allen is wearing a shirt that reads "Kerrville" across the chest with denim jeans. He sings into a microphone as he performs on-stage in front of a curtained backdrop.
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[Amelab Lebanese Dance Performance]
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Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each dancer wears a black top with gold beading on the straps and a brightly colored skirt. They perform on stage in front of a crowd of festival participants, who sit on a grassy hill.
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[Amelab Lebanese Dancers]
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Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear bra tops with gold sequins sewn to the straps, long skirts with a similar sequin pattern, and tulle swaths of fabric flowing across their stomachs and knotted at the shoulder. The four women raise one arm in the air while the other hand rests on their hips.
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[Amelab Lebanese Dancers]
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Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each dancer wears a black top with gold beading on the straps and a brightly colored skirt. They perform on stage in front of a crowd of festival participants, who sit on a grassy hill.
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[Audience at the Gospel Jubilee]
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Photograph of audience members watching the Gospel Jubilee performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The large audience stands on their feet on a grassy hill, clapping their hands for the performers.
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[Audience at the Gospel Jubilee]
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Photograph of audience members watching the Gospel Jubilee performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two young boys hold hands as they sit on a grassy hill. Many children surround them as their parents sit a few feet behind them on the hill.
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[Ballet Folklorico]
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Photograph of the Ballet Folklorico performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dance group consists of seven young girls wearing historical Spanish dresses with full skirts and ruffled sleeves. Each girl has a large bow in her hair and wears leather tap shoes.
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[Ballet Folklorico Dancer]
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Photograph of a member of the Ballet Folklorico performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears a bright red dress trimmed in yellow ric-rac, and yellow, green, and pink ribbon. She wears a red sombrero on her head and white lace-up boots on her feet. A crowd of festival participants watches the performs on a grassy hill in front of the grey concrete stage.
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[Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio dancers at Texas Folklife Festival]
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Photograph of Ernest Rodriguez and Terry Luna, members of Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio, performing "Danza de Las Cintas," from Yucatan, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers each hold a long ribbon as they dance. The boys wear a white suit and hat with red bandannas, while the girls wear satin dresses with colorful flowers embroidered along the bodice and hem.
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[Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival]
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Photograph of Becky Garza and Anthony Medrano, members of the Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio, performing Mexican folk dances from the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The female dancers wear white shirts, brown skirts, and orange ribbons in their hair, while the men wear brown jackets, khaki pants, plaid shirts, and orange bandannas tied around their necks.
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[Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival]
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Photograph of members of the Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio performing dances, from the Mexican state of Yucatan, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Pairs of boys and girls--Left to right) Sylvia Rodriguez, Diane Garcia, Ernest Rodriguez,and Anthony Medrano--form a line on the stage, with the girls wearing white dresses embroidered with pink and orange flowers, and the boys wearing white suits with white fedoras. A colorful backdrop decorates the stage.
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[Balloon Release]
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Photograph of the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women release dozens of yellow balloons into the air as crowds of festival participants dressed in historically significant clothing watch the display. The Institute of Texas Cultures building is visible in the background.
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[Barbara Stahl Demonstrating Preserving Techniques]
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Photograph of Barbara Stahl demonstrating pickling and preserving techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Barbara wears a checkered bonnet and matching dress as she ladles jam from a pot to a jar, teaching festival participants how to preserve food.
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[Bayou City Attic Singers]
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Photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers performing at the Texas Folklife in San Antonio, Texas. Five women and two men perform on a raised platform underneath a canopy of palm leaves. The women wear denim skirts with matching vests, while the men wear denim pants with matching plaid shirts. One woman plays the acoustic guitar and one man plays the electric guitar, while the remaining five band members sing.
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[Berm Sliding]
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Photograph of children sliding down the grassy berm at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, two children slide down the hill on one piece of cardboard. Other festival participants are visible at the top of the hill, preparing their cardboard mounts before taking off.
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[Berm Sliding]
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Photograph of two young children participating in berm sliding at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The girl and the boy lay on a piece of cardboard that they share as they slide down the grassy hill. Both the girl, who is wearing a blue and red jumper, and the boy, who is wearing a white striped shirt and red shorts, are laughing.
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[Bill Smallwood Band]
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Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Sandy Smallwood stands to the left of the stage, holding a microphone in her hand, wearing a cowboy hat and a shirt reading "Bill Smallwood Band." Her husband, Bill, stands to the far right, playing an electric guitar.
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[Boot-Maker, Catherine Wood]
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Photograph of Catherino Wood making a pair of boots at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Catherino wears a short-sleeved shirt and cargo shorts as she drives a nail into the sole of a boot with a hammer. Her workstation is covered with tools relating to boot-making, including leathers, dyes, and boot forms.
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[Bootsie Ehlers Playing Bass Box]
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Photograph of Bootsie Ehler playing the bass box with the Hobos, a band from Lavaca County. Bootsie plays the bass box on a stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The musical instrument consists of a wooden box covered in salt, rhythmically beaten with a wooden pole.
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[Bread-Making Demonstration]
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Photograph of a bread-making demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, three small children are standing behind a table, each holding a piece of dough in their hands. The girl on the far left rolls hers on a cutting board, while the boy to her right digs his fingers into his piece of dough. The girl on the far right holds all of her dough in one hand.
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[Bruce Roark of the Devine Music Makers]
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Photograph of Bruce Roark of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bruce wears a straw hat and a white shirt as he plays a guitar with other members of the Devine Music Makers.
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[Bunny Brass Band]
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Photograph of the Bunny Brass Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Members of the Bunny Brass Band from Fredericksburg, Texas wear bright-colored bunny suits of yellow, orange, blue, red, and green as they participate in a parade.
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[Bunny Brass Band]
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Photograph of the Bunny Brass Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, an individual plays a trumpet and wears an orange bunny suit. Performers in similar attire are visible in the background.
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[Bunny Brass Band Member]
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Photograph of a member of the Big Bunny Brass Band from Fredericksburg performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The tuba player wears a red suit and matching red hat with large bunny ears extending from the top. He smiles as he holds a small music book.
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[Cabin Building Demonstration]
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Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to show how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, several men balance on the roof of the cabin as they attach shingles. Festival participants watch the demonstration to the left of the cabin.
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[Cabin Building Demonstration]
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Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to show how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, a man in a blue cap and denim shorts attaches shingles to the roof of the cabin with a mallet. Festival participants watch the demonstration from underneath a shaded area.
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[Cajun Dancing]
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Photograph of people dancing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The heavily-crowded dance floor moves to the sound of Cajun music.
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[Cane Syrup Cooking]
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Photograph of Jerry Young cooking cane syrup at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jerry wears a cowboy hat with a striped shirt, braided leather belt and slacks. He leans over a large rectangular bin filled with cane syrup.
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[Charley McTee, Fishing Expert]
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Photograph of Charley McTee discussing fishing techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Charley wears a white cowboy hat and a khaki shirt. He holds fishing tackles in both hands.
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[Chester Knight Using a Treadle Lathe]
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Photograph of Chester Knight demonstrating how to use the treadle lathe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man, girl, and boy watch Chester turn the knob of the machine to create cylindrical curves in wood.
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[Chicken Flying Contest]
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Photograph of a chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man releases the opening of a mailbox mounted on a tall wooden stake. A chicken flies out of the mailbox as Festival participants watch from below.
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[Child Hugging a Doll]
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Photograph of a child hugging a doll at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The child wears a pair of overalls as he holds a cloth doll as tall as he is. A booth of handmade dolls is visible in the background.
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[Children Sitting on Replica Horse]
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Photograph of four children sitting on a replica horse at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four children sit in order of smallest to largest, with the smallest child holding onto the hair of the horse. A large bale of hay positioned underneath the horse helps festival participants reach it's back.
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[Claudia Ball at the Gospel Jubilee]
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Photograph of Texas Folklife Festival Director Claudia Ball with Doyle Fellers and O. T. Baker at the Gospel Jubilee. Doyle sits to the far left, holding hands with Claudia, on the far right, while O. T. sits in the center.
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[Cooking Bunuelos]
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Photograph of women cooking bunuelos at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman is standing in front of an electric skillet, flipping the small doughy balls so that they are evenly cooked. Many women stand to her left and right, preparing food for the St. Stephen's Catholic Church booth.
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[Cowboy Beans at the Chuck Wagon]
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Photograph of a man preparing cowboy beans at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He stands in a grassy area surrounded by small scrub trees, stirring a huge pot of beans with a large wooden stick. The man wears a cowboy hat and a long-sleeve collared shirt, tucked into jeans.
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[Cowboy's Foot Tub]
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Photograph of Claudia Ball and Virge T. Williams at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Claudia, the director of the Texas Folklife Festival, stands barefoot in the cowboy's foot tub. Virge, also known as "Cowboy," wraps his arm around Claudia.
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[Delbert Brewster Demonstrating Scrimshaw Engraving]
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Photograph of Delbert Brewster creating a scrimshaw engraving at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He wears a cowboy hat with a brown short-sleeved shirt and dark-colored pants. Delbert uses a small tool to cut an elaborate scene into a piece of cow horn.
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[Dorceal Duckens of the Duckens Family Singers]
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Photograph of Dorceal Duckens performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dorceal, a member of the Duckens Family Singers, wears a blue shirt and a green name tag as he performs for the festival.
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[Doris Riedel Making Lye Soap]
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Photograph of Doris Riedel making lye soap at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Doris wears a blue dress and apron as she stands beside an iron pot hanging over an open fire. She stirs the lye within the pot with a long wooden paddle.