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Introduction:
The craft presentations at the 1968 Festival featured more than 60 persons demonstrating basket-making, woodworking, wood carving, pottery, blacksmithing and tinsmithing, doll-making, and foodways. A special focus was on textile traditions, with large contingents demonstrating diverse approaches to processing cotton and wool, needlework, and quilt-making.
Participants:
Maurice Alexander, Lummi, totem poles, Washington
Elizabeth Bass, 1906-1991, wool carder, Missouri
Kay Bates, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana
Herman Benton, 1914-1994, grain scoop maker, New York
Freddy Bump, 1894-1977, chair maker, Arkansas
Dallas Bump, 1918-2016, chair maker, Arkansas
Charlene Cartee, 1908-1985, butter churning, sassafras candy making, Kentucky
Russell Cartee, 1901-1986, rived shingle maker, Kentucky
Gladys LeBlanc Clark, 1918-2011, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana
Cornelison family, Appalachian potters, Kentucky
Dinkie Daspit, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Lafayette, Louisiana
Susan Denson, Choctaw, split-cane basket maker, Mississippi
Abe Dewey, corn shuck seat maker, Missouri
Letha Dickerson, gourd-head doll maker, Kentucky
Isaac Doss, blacksmith, Arkansas
Freedom Quilting Bee, quilters, Alabama
Tillie Galbadon, 1912-1979, Spanish-American needlework, New Mexico
Dolly Greer, quilter, North Carolina
Taft Greer, 1908-1986, wool weaver, Tennessee
Lucille Guitroz, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana
Thelma Hall, 1908-1996, nut head and woodenhead doll maker, Arkansas
Alma Harris, 1919-1993, poppets (dolls) maker, Hindsville, Arkansas
Roy Harris, 1920-, wooden figures, Arkansas
Johnie Head, corncob, corn shuck doll maker, Springdale, Arkansas
Ethel Hogsed, 1920-1991, Brasstown carvers, wooden animals, North Carolina
Francis James, 1909-1973, Lummi, wool spinner (electric wheel), Marietta, Washington
Doris John, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico
Edith Jones, Lummi, cedar-bark basket maker, Washington
Edwin L. Kaye, Hopi kachina dolls, New Mexico
Norman Kennedy, 1934-, wool milling, spinning and weaving, Virginia
Wally Kiser, sorghum production, Kentucky
Mrs. Wally Kiser, sorghum production, Kentucky
George Lopez, 1900-1993, -- santos -- carver, New Mexico
Edsel Martin, 1927-1999, dulcimers, North Carolina
Jack Matthews, sheep shearer, Maryland
Angus McLeod and group, wool milling, Massachusetts
Sue McClure, Brasstown carvers, wooden animals, North Carolina
Mrs. Charles Morlan, apple face doll maker, Arkansas
Teresita Naranjo, 1919-1999, Santa Clara Pueblo potter, New Mexico
Elizabeth Notah, 1928-2003, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico
Conchita Quintana, 1941-1994, tinsmith, New Mexico
Mallie Ritchie, corn shuck doll maker, Kentucky
Donald Robinson, split-oak basket maker, Louisiana
Thonius Robinson, split-oak basket maker, Louisiana
Grace Owle Shelton, 1905-1970, Cherokee, cloth doll maker, North Carolina
Kitty Singleton, 1904-1989, corn shuck doll maker, Kentucky
Edgar Tolson, 1904-1984, wooden figures, Kentucky
Elisa Trivett, wool spinner (treadle wheel) North Carolina
Margie Waldron, wool spinner (walking wheel), Missouri
Joe Washington and family, Lummi, net making and setting, Washington
Florence Watson, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico
Ora Watson, 1909-2004, quilter, North Carolina
Rosa Lee Watson, quilter, Deep Gap, North Carolina
Willard Watson, 1905-1994, toys, Deep Gap, North Carolina
Mrs. Hobart Whitson, quilter, Burnsville, North Carolina
Connard Wolfe, 1933-, stone and wood carvings, West Virginia
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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1968 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections , Smithsonian Institution.
