The Junior Historian, Volume 25, Number 3, December 1964 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS--1897
President:
GEORGE P. ISBELLVice-Presidents:
J. P. BRYAN
JOSEPH SCHMITZ SEYMOUR V. CONNOR
WAYNE GARDDirector:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLISTHE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8059, University Station
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
Editor:
H. BAILEY CARROLLFRANCES V. PARKER
BARBARA CUMMINGSAssociate Editors:
ALWYN BARRDAVID B. GRACY, II
RICHARD TAUSCH"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People who are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."
Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscription (five or more to Chapter members) $1.50
each. Second-class postage paid at Austin, Texas.
"HAND LOOM" FOR JUNIOR HISTORIANS
by ALINE ROTHEWith increasing public interest in the crafts
of pioneers and the work of many individuals
and historical organizations to establish mu-
seums in addition to those already existing as
fitting repositories for the display of these re-
minders of the way of life of early settlers, the
efforts of Junior Historians are especially sig-
nificant in helping to preserve our Texas
heritage.
Always of much interest to museum visitors
viewing objects used by pioneers is the old-
fashioned hand loom. The loom, composed of
two upright pillars held together by a cross-
piece with a frame projecting horizontally to
the floor for the stringing of warp threads and
the shuttle for the weaving of the woof threads,
is symbolic of the handiwork of pioneers in
creating fabric for wearing apparel and house-
hold use. And the loom, although utilitarian
in appearance, can be a reminder, too, that
pioneer weavers were imaginative in alternating
the color and length of threads to create color-
ful and sometimes intricate designs.
As with pioneer weavers, Junior Historians
are also hard-,orking and imaginative. For
analogy, Junior Historians with pencils andnotebooks, going about their work of research-
ing and recording historical data, are like pio-
neer weavers with their shuttles wound with
woof thread, as they wove it in and out be-
tween the warp threads. In weaving, the warp
threads hold together the woof, enabling the
design to exist. In history, the "warp threads"
are the basic steps necessary in learning about
people-the "loom" of civilization. Anthropol-
ogy, languages, and certain sciences, particular-
ly archeology, which is the science concerned
with the determination of man's past history
by a study of the material things he has left on
earth, are basic studies for Junior Historians.
Locating and recording aboriginal sites and col-
lecting artifacts should be a primary objective
of Junior Historians.
In weaving, the woof is the "showy" part-
the various color combinations-of the fabric.
"Color combinations" for Junior Historians are
collections of Indian artifacts and pioneer rec-
ords and objects of handicraft-all a significant
part of the "fabric" of history.
What opportunities Junior Historians have
to apply themselves before the "loom" of his-
tory! Diligent study of school subjects makes
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