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[Adobe Home]

Description: Photograph of an adobe home. Visible on the right side of the picture is a woman with her back to the camera, and on the left side of the home there is a chicken wire fence.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Handmade Tool]

Description: Photograph of a handmade tool consisting of two vertical posts supporting a horizontal dowel. There is a small wheel in the center of the dowel, and a rope hangs on the dowel to the left of the wheel.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Person Adding Decorative Inlay to Guitar]

Description: Photograph of a person adding decorative inlay of rosewood and cottonwood to the edges of a guitar. The woods are alternately glued together in strips to create a light/dark pattern. String is wrapped around the body of the instrument to hold the inlay in place as the person works.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Yard Shrine in Kingsville]

Description: Photograph of a yard shrine in front of a house in the Texas-Mexican barrios of Kingsville, Texas. The shrine consists of two religious images under a brick arch.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Reptile Skin Boots]

Description: Photograph of a pair of boots that appear to be made from the skin of a reptile. The boots rest on top of a table and some reptile skins, presumably the same skin from which the boots were crafted.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Morteros (Bedrock Mortars)]

Description: Photograph of morteros (bedrock mortars) used by Native American Indians to grind corn. Shown are five of a total of twenty-one mortars that were found in an area of about 20 square feet.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Frontal View of Small Board-and-Batten Home]

Description: Photograph of the frontal view of a small board-and-batten home. One window is visible on the right side of the house, and two doors are visible. The roof is made of wooden shingles, and a barbed wire fence is visible in the foreground.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

The Jacal in the Big Bend: Its Origin and Evolution

Description: Draft of a paper tracing "the jacal from its pre-Hispanic origins in the pithouse to its emergence as a surface structure like those described by the earliest Spaniard soldiers and missionaries in the La Junta region." The author also identifies modern examples of the jacal that are still in use today; the paper includes a glossary and illustrations.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville
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