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[Alabama-Coushatta Basket Display]

Description: Photograph of the Alabama-Coushatta baskets being displayed in Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. On a table in the foreground are a variety of tan baskets. Some are small and some large, but all are woven. On the other side of the table, women and children are surveying the baskets. In the center, a woman with large red sunglasses is looking at the display.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Tigua Bead Necklace Display]

Description: Photograph of a boy standing behind the Tigua bead necklace display in Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a simple headress, made of a blue decorated band with beads and feathers hanging from it. He is also wearing two decorated bands around his upper arms over his patterned shirt. The display features several necklaces, all with red, black, and white beads. The boy is smiling and is resting his elbows on the counter.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Basket-Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Alice Battise demonstrating Alabama-Coushatta basket-making in Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in a chair, wearing Native American necklaces, and a purple dress with white and green trim. She has started weaving a small basket which is resting in her lap.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Tigua Bead Work Demonstrations]

Description: Photograph of the Tigua bead working demonstration booth in Indian Village at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, a woman with long black hair and glasses is sitting at a table with a brightly-colored tablecloth and trays of tiny beads assorted by color. Next to her on the right is a woman with black wavy hair. Both women are wearing colorful capes and holding a tool used for bead working. To the right of the women, festival visitors are trying their hand at bead working.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Origami Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Yayoi Beard explaining origami at the Japanese demonstration booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. A variety of origami figurines of all different colors and shapes are on display. Beard is speaking to an interested female visitor about them.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Visitors Making Clothespin Dolls]

Description: Photograph of the Frontier Children's Toyland booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Standing at the booth, two festival visitors, a woman and young girl, make clothespin dolls with old-style clothespins and patterned fabric. Behind the booth, an older woman volunteer is also making a doll.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Corncob Dolls]

Description: Photograph of women showing young girls how to make corncob dolls at the Texas Folklife Festival. Two women volunteers are seated at a table and the girls are standing on the other side of the table, holding corncobs and watching the older women make the dolls. A variety of materials are laid out on the table, including corncobs, fabric and yarn.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Making Toy Furniture]

Description: Photograph of W. E. Thomas, from La Feria, making miniature toy furniture from a tin can at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is seated, holding a tin can that has been shredded into many tiny strips connected to the base. He is bending and twisting the strips to form a piece of toy furniture.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Displaying Toy Furniture]

Description: Photograph of W. E. Thomas, from La Feria, displaying his miniature toy furniture made from tin cans at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on the left, standing behind the booth across from two girls on the right, who are looking at the collection of handcrafted toy furniture. The pieces are very detailed and include cushions of many different colors.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Painting on Eggshell]

Description: Photograph of Karen Sears, from Snyder, painting on an eggshell at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting, wearing glasses, a white sleeveless shirt and a large, decorative necklace. She is holding the egg steady on the table while she prepares to mark it with a pencil. She is looking off to the right and smiling.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Displaying Sachet Dolls]

Description: Photograph of Kadi Wills, from Austin, displaying her handmade sachet dolls at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph is taken from behind the booth with Wills in the foreground and visitors gathered around the booth in the background. She appears to be working on a doll while speaking to a visitor off to the right who is not in the photograph. The booth's display table is covered in a quilt on which six sachet dolls are displayed, all wearing different colors of dresses.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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