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[Adobe Making Demonstration]
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Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, raking the mixture as festival participants watch.
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[Adobe Making Demonstration]
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Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over a wooden trough as he pours water into the individual sections. Several festival stand behind Bill, watching the demonstration.
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[Adobe Making Demonstration]
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Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the wooden trough, shoveling an unknown substance into the individual sections. A festival participant stands behind Bill, watching the demonstration.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Beadwork]
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Photograph of a woman creating a beaded headdress at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman, a member of the Alabama Coushatta tribe, spreads out the large headdress decorated with feathers and beads.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Costumes]
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Photograph of members of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe preparing costumes for a dance demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a small boy wears traditional Native-American dance regalia as a woman leans over his fur boot, attaching bells to his costume.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Performance]
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Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, two young dancers in full Alabama-Coushatta regalia perform for a crowd of festival participants. The dancers wear large feather headdresses, beaded belts, and fur boots as they dance.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Performance]
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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 wears an intricate costume consisting of a feather headdress, beaded headband, tasseled belt, and fur boots with bells attached. He holds sticks with suede tassels attached as he dances for festival participants.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dance Regalia]
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Photograph of women preparing Alabama-Coushatta Indian dance regalia at the Texas Folklife Festival. The women sew red and purple feathers onto large headresses. One woman sits in the grass weaving string in and out of a cardboard circle, while another sits in a chair working on a yellow and green headdress.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancer Jack Battise]
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Photograph of Jack Pattise with a festival participant at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jack wears a feather headdress from the Alabama-Coushatta tribe as he speaks into a microphone. He stands to the left of a man wearing patterned suspenders over a short-sleeved shirt.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancer Jack Battise]
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Photograph of Jack Pattise with a festival participant at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jack wears a feather headdress from the Alabama-Coushatta tribe. He stands next to a festival participant speaking into a microphone.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]
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Photograph of the Alabama-Coushatta Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Native-American clothing as they dance on a grey stage in front of a crowd of festival-participants.
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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 wear intricate headdresses, belts, and boots as they perform on a grassy area for festival participants.
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[Alabama-Coushatta Headdress]
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Photograph of a man making a headdress at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man, a member of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe, sits in a chair with a dark-colored sleeveless shirt and white pants, attaching feathers to a circular disk.
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[Antique Corn Sheller]
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Photograph of a child using an antique corn sheller at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy leans over a wooden trough full of corn. He cranks the sheller as several festival participants watch.
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[Arnold Griffin Teaching Log Sawing]
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Photograph of Arnold Griffin teaching children how to saw a log at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Arnold holds onto the middle of the saw, guiding it through the wood as two boys hold onto handles on opposite sides. the sawing demonstration takes place in the front yard surrounding a small wooden house.
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[Artificial Flower Bouquets]
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Photograph of artificial flower making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman stands behind a festival booth, arranging artificial floral bouquets in brown wicker baskets.
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[Artificial Flower Making]
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Photograph of artificial flower making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman sits inside a festival booth, delicately painting the inside of a plastic flower. Several finished flowers are secured in floral foam on the front table of the booth.
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[Band Playing in Cajun Country]
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Photograph of a band performing in "Cajun Country" at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band performs on a stage outside of the Institute of Texas Cultures. The band members include a violinist, a guitarist, an accordion player, and a steel guitarist.
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[Barn Raising Demonstration]
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Photograph of Arnold Griffin demonstrating barn raising at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Arnold leans against the wooden frame of the barn holding a large saw in his hands, wearing a straw cowboy hat, tan shirt, and khaki pants.
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[Bass Box Demonstration]
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Photograph of the Hoboes bass box player Bootsie Ehler playing the musical instrument a festival participant. Bootsie and his guest use brooms to make noise on a wooden board covered with salt. The four other members of the band stand around the bass box players, accompanying them with three trumpets and a guitar.
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[Bass Box Playing]
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Photograph of the Czech musical group, the Hoboes, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a member of the audience is being boosted on the stage by another audience member, in order to play the bass box. The woman is wearing a red shirt tucked into a denim skirt, and brown sandals.
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[Batik Demonstration]
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Photograph of Batik lessons at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A long table is set up with cloth, string, and bowls of water for festival participants to learn the art of batik, and Indonesian form of embroidery. A woman wearing a bandanna around her head and an embroidered dress works on a piece of batik with the help of an instructor.
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[Batik School]
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Photograph of Batik lessons at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A long table is set up with cloth, string, and bowls of water for festival participants to learn the art of batik, and Indonesian form of embroidery. Several women sit at the table working on their individual pieces of embroidery.
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[Belgian Bolls Game]
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Photograph of festival participants playing Belgian bolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is leaning towards a target wearing a white collared shirt and plaid pants, throwing a ball towards a small box in the corner of a booth.
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[Belgian Mast Climbing]
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Photograph of a Belgian mast climbing competition at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants watch a boy climb a tall poll in the center of the crowd. The boy, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, reaches toward a bell secured to the top of the pole. Colorful streamers decorate the area and the booths around it.
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[Belgian Mast Climbing Competition]
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Photograph of a Belgian mast climbing competition at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants watch a boy climb a tall poll in the center of the crowd. The boy, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, reaches toward a bell secured to the top of the pole. Colorful streamers decorate the area and the booths around it.
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[Belgian Mast Climbing Competition]
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Photograph of a Belgian mast climbing competition at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants watch a boy climb a tall poll in the center of the crowd. The boy, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and boots, clings to the pole with two hands as his legs dangle free. Colorful streamers decorate the area and the booths around it.
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[Belgian Mast Climbing Competition]
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Photograph of a Belgian mast climbing competition at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants watch a boy climb a tall poll in the center of the crowd. The boy, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, reaches toward a bell secured to the top of the pole. Colorful streamers decorate the area and the booths around it.
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[Bill Corkery Making Adobe]
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Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, breaking weeds over the mixture, wearing a straw hat, a blue checkered shirt, denim jeans, and brown leather boots. Festival participants watch him as he makes the adobe.
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[Bill Lindig Splitting Shingles]
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Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill straddles a sawhorse as he cuts shingles from a block of wood. Festival participants are visible in the background, interacting with festival booths and watching festival demonstrations.
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[Blacksmithing Demonstration]
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Photograph of Basil Garcia, a blacksmith, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Basil wears a denim shirt and jeans as he works at his blacksmithing station, demonstrating his craft to festival participant.
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[Blue Grass Kinfolk]
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Photograph of the band Blue Grass Kinfolk performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four male members of the band play either the banjo, the guitar, or violin as they stand towards the front edge of the stage. A woman playing the base stands behind them. She wears a red checkered dress.
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[Blue Grass Kinfolk Performance]
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Photograph of the Blue Grass Kinfolk performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four band members, three men and one woman, play the guitar, violin, and cello underneath a large awning.
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[Bob Murphey Telling A Story]
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Photograph of Bob Murphey telling a story at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bob wears a straw hat and a denim shirt with a purple and white name tag attached to the front.
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[Bob Murphey, Texas Storyteller]
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Photograph of Bob Murphey, a storyteller from East Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bob performs on a stage, speaking into a microphone, and wearing a cowboy hat with a short-sleeved denim shirt.
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[Bocce Ball Competition]
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Photograph of festival participants playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants stand around the grassy playing field, watching the game. One man, a participant in the game, stands to the left front of the field as he throws his bocce ball towards the intended target.
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[Bocce Ball Competition]
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Photograph of festival participants playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants stand around the grassy playing field, watching the game commence. To the right of the field, a woman leans on one knee as she rolls a bocce ball towards the target.
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[Bocce Ball Game]
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Photograph of festival participants playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a crowd of festival participants stand around the grassy playing field, watching the game. In the center of the field, a woman rolls the bocce ball towards the intended target, wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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[Boerne Village Band]
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Photograph of the Boerne Village Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The German Band sits in folding chair, playing wind instruments for a crowd of festival participants.
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[Boerne Village Band]
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Photograph of the Boerne Village Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The German Band sits in a semicircle, performing on a grey stage covered in red, yellow and green bunting.
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[Boerne Village Band Performance]
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Photograph of the Boerne Village Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The German Band sits in a semicircle, performing on a grey stage covered in red, yellow and green bunting, while a crowd of festival-participants watch.
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[Brewing Booth]
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Photograph of Floyd Schneider teaching brewing techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Floyd sits in a chair wearing a straw hat and a white shirt, pointing to a chart on the wall titled "The Art of Brewing," and speaking to festival participants about the art of brewing beer.
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[Broad Ax Timber Shaping]
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Photograph of Rick Smith timber shaping at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Rick stands on a large log, raising an axe in the air before bringing it down on a large piece of timber. Rick wears a striped shirt with jeans, suede boots, and a blue hat.
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[Buckin' Barrel Game]
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Photograph of a child playing on the buckin' barrel at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The buckin' barrel consists of horse saddle secured to a hollowed out log. Four thick ropes secured underneath the log. Two men move the ropes up and down, in an attempt to buck the festival participant off his mount.
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[Cajun Country Crawfish Race]
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Photograph of crawfish race participants at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The race participants put Louisiana hot sauce on the crawfish before they race, as a large crowd of festival participants watch.
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[Cajun Gumbo]
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Photograph of a man preparing Cajun gumbo at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He uses a long wooden spoon to stir a large iron pot of vegetables and seafood. A large crowd of festival participants are visible in the background.
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[Cane Mill at the Texas Folklife Festival]
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Photograph of Jerry Young feeding cane into the cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jerry wears a denim shirt and khaki pants with a tan cowboy hat. In the background, a pair of oxen give festival participants rides around the festival.
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[Chalupa Preparation]
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Photograph of festival participants preparing chalupas in the Mexican Food Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman wearing a polka dotted blouse and denim skirt wears plastic gloves over her hands as she puts meat on a baked tortilla. Next to her, a man wearing a red, white and blue hat with a blue shirt and jeans, puts lettuce and tomatoes on a baked tortilla.
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[Chicken Flying Contest]
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Photograph of a woman holding her entry for the chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman wears black framed glasses with long earrings, a short-sleeved shirt and pants. She holds a chicken in her hands, decorated with rhinestones.
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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. A large crowd of festival participants crowd around a large wooden catapult used for shooting chickens into the air.