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70 Linear feet (Approximately 70 linear feet of textual materials and over 30,000 photographic items.)
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Archival materials
Date:
1930s-1980s
Summary:
The papers of John Lawrence Angel present a complete portrait of the professional life of one of the most important and influential physical anthropologists in the United States. Angel was best known for his work with cultures in the eastern Mediterranean and for his work in forensic anthropology; but his contributions were widespread. His influence was felt in studies of human microevolution, the relationship between environment and disease, human evolution, and paleopathology. His research was said to be ten years ahead of its time.
The papers include correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the time; honors and awards bestowed on Angel; materials on Angel's educational career, both as an undergraduate and as a teacher; extensive photographs; a virtually complete collection of his writings; materials concerning his research and his work in forensic anthropology; and his activities in professional organizations. The bulk of the papers reflect Angel's life-long interest in examining the relationship between culture and biology in human groups through time. There are a few records on Angel's administrative involvement in the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History.
Scope and Contents:
Angel began his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in the classics, following in the footsteps of his American mother (who trained as a classicist and was the daughter of a Yale University professor of Greek) and his British father, who was a sculptor. While still an undergraduate, Angel came under the influence of Clyde Kluckhohn, Carleton S. Coon, and Earnest A. Hooton, and his interest turned to anthropology. The combination of anatomy and classicist training developed into a life-long interest and work in the social biology of the peoples of Greece and the Near East.
In addition to his work in Greece and the Near East, the papers include Angel's studies of American populations of colonial peoples and slaves; his forensic anthropology analyses of skeletal remains for law enforcement groups and the United States military; his studies of obesity and other diseases and the possible genetic link behind them; Angel's analysis of the skeletal remains of James Smithson; his involvement in early reburial issues concerning American Indians, particularly the return of the remains of Captain Jack and other Modocs; and Angel's concern and involvement in civil liberty matters and in community affairs.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
(1) Miscellaneous personal papers, 1933-1986; (2) correspondence, 1936-1986; (3) research in the eastern Mediterranean, 1936-1986; (4) anthropology of chronic disease, 1943-1965; (5) Harvard University-Johns Hopkins University Hospital anthropology study, 1959-1964; (6) five generation study, 1962-1985; (7) skull thickness project, 1968-1976; (8) biological and cultureal microdifferential among rural populations of Yugoslavia, 1981-1986; (9) First African Baptist Church, Philadelphia, 1983-1987; (10) other research projects (bone density change, Catoctin Furnace site, Virginia colonial sites), 1945-1986; (11) education, 1940-1986; (12) legal matters, 1962-1986; (13) reference materials, 1930-1986; (14) writing of J. Lawrence Angel, 1932-1988; (15) Smithsonian Department of Anthropology, Division of Physical Anthropology, 1961-1968; (16) professional organizations and meetings, 1942-1987; (17) writings by other authors, 1950-1985; (18) grants, 1951-1962; (19) miscellany, 1937-1985; (20) photographs, 1936-1986
Biographical Note:
J. Lawrence Angel was educated in the classics in his native England and at The Choate School in Connecticut. He studied anthropology at Harvard University (A.B., 1936; Ph.D., 1942). He was an instructor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1941-1942 and at the University of Minnesota in 1942-1943. In 1943-1962, he was on the staff of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, starting as an assistant and rsising to a professor. In 1962, he became the curator for physical anthropology in the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology and continued in that position until he died. Angel was also a research associate with the University Museum of the University of of Pennsylvania, 1946-1962; civil consultant in surgical anatomy of the United States Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, 1957-1962; visiting professor of anatomy, Howard University, 1962-1986; and professorial lecturer at the George Washington University, 1962-1986. He was also a lecturer in forensic pathology at the department of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1962.
Angel summarized his research interests as (1) human social biology, involving the "interrrelations of health, disease, body build, longevity, genetic mixture and variability with each other, with climate and ecology, and with level of culture, nutrition and achievement as seen in history, in evolution, or clinically"; (2) palaeodemography as related to the rise and decline of disease (falciparum malaria)"; and (3) "relation of structure to function and to genetic determinants as seen in form of joints and in density, mineral historology and muscularity of bones, or in process of 'arthritic' change in relation to aging."
The single most enduring interest in Angel's career was the pre- and proto-history of the population of Greece and nearby areas of the eastern Mediterranean. Beginning in 1937, Angel made repeated trips to the region, only highlights of which are provided here. In 1938, he studied skeletal material from Troy which W.T. Semple, of the University of Cincinnati had deposited in the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul. In 1938, he studied skeletal material mostly excavated in the area of Corinth. He worked at the Cyprus Museum in 1949, studying skulls from Vasa and skeletal material from Bamboula. During that year, he also studied living people at a Cypriote village. In 1952, he worked with Carleton S. Coon on skeletal material from Hotu Cave. In 1954, he studied materials from the Agora excavations and from Eleusis. During the same year, he also visited the British Museum and many sites in Greece studying Myceanean skeletons excavated by George E. Mylonas, John Papadimitrious, and A.J.B. Wace. In 1954, he again studied skeletal material excavated at Bamboula and, in 1957, skeletons from Eleusis. In 1965, he studied human bones from twenty-two sites in Greece and Turkey that dated from the paleolithic to moderntimes, including material from a Bryan Mawr College excavation at Elmali, an excavation at Karatas-Semeyuk in Lycia, and collections in the Archaeological Museum of Ankara and in the museum at Verroia in Macedonia. In 1969, he worked on material from Kephala, and in 1972, skeletons from Asine in Greece. In 1984, he studied upper paleolithic skeletons from Wadi Kubbaniya.
Angel also carried out work on American populations--prehistoric, historic, and contemporary. In 1944, he worked on skeletal remains from excavations at Tranquillity, California, that were deposited in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. In the same year, he was one of several researchers involved in an endocrinological, anthropological, and psychological study ofobesity initiatec by the Jefferson School of Medicine.
The first hase of the study lasted until 1948 and was followed by restudy of the subjects in 1954-1957. Around 1959-1961, with Carl Seltzer, he was involved in a study of the relation between constitution and health of students at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins Unviersity, Angel primarily taking care of the work in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he studied skeletal material from Matin's Hundred and other sites of colonia Virginia which resulted, in part, in comparisons with the modern American population. In the 1980s, with Jennifer O. Kelly, he worked on skeletons of African American slaves from Catoctin Furnace, Maryland, and on remains of free African American from the First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
Angle was highly regarded for his keen seight and other senses which he used with great effect in examining human remains. Consequently, he was frequently sought as a consultant and regularly carried out forensic work for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement authorities. In addition, military authorities, archeologists involved in both the study of history and prehistory, and museum people sent him specimens for examination. At the Smithsonian, he not only used and improved the excellent skeletal collection, he had the opportunity to exmaine the bones of Smithsonian benefactor James Smithson and was involved ine arly studies connected with the return of American Indian skeltal materials to appropriate receipents.
Active with several professional organizations, Angel was president of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society in 1956-1958 and associate editor of the American Anthropologist. In 1952-1956, he was the secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and, in 1959-1960, vice president of that organization. In 1952-1956, he was an association editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. He was president of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in 1980-1985. For his active professional life, he received the Pomerance Medal of the Archaeological Institute of American in 1983 and the distinguished service medal of the American Anthropological Association in 1986.
1915 -- Born March 21 in London, England to John Angel and Elizabeth Day Seymour.
1928 -- Emigrated to the United States from England.
1934 -- Summer field school, University of New Mexico.
1935 -- Summer field work, Museum of Northern Arizona.
1936 -- A.B., Anthropology, Harvard College; summer field work at the Sante Fe Laboratory of Anthropology (Macon, Georgia expedition).
1937 -- Became a naturalized American citizen, 15 June; married Margaret (Peggy) Seymour Richardson, 1 July.
1937-1939 -- Field work in Greece: worked in Greece from early November 1937 until the end of January 1939 when illness forced his return in April; in the winter of 1937-1938, Angel worked in the American excavations in the Agora at Athens, in the American excavations at Old Corinth, and in the Greek National Museum in Athens; in the spring of 1938, Angel worked in the Greek Anthropological Museum in the Athens University Medical School in Goudi, and at the Agora excavations; from May to June, Angel measured villagers and excavated over 100 burials from the Riverside cemetery under David M. Robinson at the American excavations at Olynthus, Macedonia; Angel then worked in Athens and Corinth for a short time; from July to August Angel worked on skeletons from Troy (which W.T. Semple of the University of Cincinnati had deposited) and Babokoy, Anatolia, as well as on skulls from Nippur and Sidon in the Archeological Museum at Istanbul, Turkey; from mid-August to early September Angel studied skeletal material from southwestern Cephallenia in the museum at Argostoli; Angel then measured skulls in the museum at Thebes and at Schematari (Tanagra) in Boeotia; from October to November Angel studied skulls from Corinth; Angel then returned to Athens to study skeletons from the German excavations at the Kerameikos and the material in the Athens Anthropological Museum and National Museum; in 1939 Angel measured people at the Agora excavations north of the Acropolis and studied skulls excavated by T.L. Shear in Athens and Corinth. During these years, Angel made one day trips to many places, including Nauplia, Tolon, Mycenae, Nemea, Aigosthina, Parnos, Aigina, Marathon, Therikos, and Sounion; support was from traveling fellowships from the departments of Anthropology and Classics of Harvard University, half of a Sheldon fellowship, the Albert and Anna Howard fellowship (Harvard), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Viking Fund, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Jefferson Medical College, and the American Philosophical Society.
1939-1941 -- Assistant in Anthropology, Harvard University.
1940 -- Elected to membership in the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
1941-1942 -- Instructor in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
1942 -- Doctor of Philosophy Degree, Anthropology, Harvard University.
1942-1943 -- Instructor in Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
1943-1950 -- Associate, Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
1944 -- Studied skeletal remains from excavations at Tranquillity, California, at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and in the [Hearst] Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.
1944-1948 -- Research for the anthropological study of chronic disease at the Jefferson Medical College.
1946-1948 -- President, Philadelphia Anthropological Society; Associate Editor, American Anthropologist.
1946-1962 -- Research Associate, University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia.
1947 -- Organized the Viking Fund summer seminar on growth and evolution.
1949 -- Field work in the Near East: In the spring, studied skulls from Kampi near Vasa in Central Cyprus at the Department of Antiquities museum in Nicosia on a visit to Cyprus and Greece; studied skeletons and living Cypriote villagers at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum headquarters in Episkopi, and skeletal material from Bamboula at the Cyprus Museum; support was from Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation (Guggenheim Fellowship), Wenner-Gren Foundation, Viking Fund, American School of Classical Studies, and Jefferson Medical School.
1949-1950 -- President, Philadelphia Society of the Archeological Institute of America.
1950-1951 -- Assistant Professor, Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. 1950-1952
1950-1952 -- Executive Committee member, American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
1951 -- Troy: The Human Remains. Supplemental monograph to Troy excavations conducted by the University of Cincinnati 1932-1938.
1951-1954 -- Associate editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
1951-1962 -- Associate Professor, Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
1952 -- Worked with Carleton Coon on skeletal material from Hotu Cave, Iran.
1952-1956 -- Secretary-treasurer, American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
1953-1966 -- Trustee for the Council for Old World Archaeology.
1954 -- Field work in the Near East: visited the British Museum (Natural History); studied skeletal material from Eleusis (Greece), at the Anthropological Museum of the Medical School of the University of Athens, and at the Agora Excavations Headquarters; studied Myceanean skeletons (excavated by George E. Mylonas, John Papadimitriou, and A.J.B. Wace), Corinthian skeletons, Bronze Age Lernaean skeletons, and Bronze Age Pylian skeletons; again studied skeletal material excavated at Bamboula; supported by grants from the Harvard graduate school, the American Philosophical Society [Grant No. 1714], and the National Institutes of Health Grant No. A-224, the Jefferson Medical College, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Agora excavations; helped by Anastasios Pantazopoulous and Nikos Thiraios.
1954-1957 -- Restudy of subjects for the anthropological study of chronic disease originally performed at the Jefferson Medical College from 1944-1948.
1956-1958 -- Council member of the American Society of Human Genetics.
1957 -- Field work in the Near East: visited the Laboratory of Anthropology in the Department of Anatomy at Oxford University; again studied skeletons from Eleusis in Greece; studied skeletons from Lerna, from the French excavations at Argos, from Pylos, from Corinthian sites near the Diolkos at the Isthmus and at Klenia, and from the Athenian Agora; supported by Grant No. 2150 from the American Philosophical Society and the National Institutes of Health; sponsored by Jefferson Medical College and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania; helped by Argyris Marinis and Panayotis Yannoulatos.
1957-1962 -- Civilian consultant in surgical anatomy to the United States Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.
1959-1960 -- Vice-President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
1960-1962 -- Member of the advisory panel on Anthropology and the History and Philosophy of Science for the National Science Foundation; consultant for the Harvard University-Johns Hopkins Hospital project on constitution and disease.
1960-1963 -- Associate editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
1962 -- Professor, Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia; Chairman of Schools Committee of West Mt. Airy Neighbors; organized the thirty-first annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
1962-1986 -- Curator, Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum (later the National Museum of Natural History), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1962-1965 -- Advisory panel for evaluating NSF Graduate Fellowships, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council.
1962-1986 -- Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1963-1986 -- Lecturer in forensic pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
1965 -- Field work in the Near East: studied human bones from 22 sites in Greece and Turkey, including Petralona in eastern Macedonia (Palaeanthropic skull), the Peneios River open sites (Theocharis and Miloicic), Tsouka cave on Mt. Pelion in Thessaly, Nea Nikomedeia near the Haliakmon River in Macedonia, Kephala on the coast of the Aegean island of Kea (Caskey), Hagios Stephanos in Laconia (Taylour), Kocumbeli near Ankara (Turkey), the Bryn Mawr College excavation at Elmali (working with Machteld Mellink), Karatas-Semeyuk in Lycia, Catal Huyuk (in the Korya Plain in Turkey) in the Archaeological Museum of Ankara, Argos, Agora Excavation, Attica, Mycanae, Corinth, Sparta, Alepotrypa (Foxes' Hole) in Mani, and in the museum at Verroia in Macedonia; supported through the SI Hrdlička Fund, the American Philosophical Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
1965-1970 -- Visiting Professor of Anatomy, Howard University Medical School, Washington, D.C.
1966 -- Summer Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Early skeletons from Tranquillity, California.
1967 -- Field work in the Near East: Turkey, studied skeletal remains from Catal Huyuk at the University of Ankara, and skeletons from Antalya, Elmali, and Karatas; Greece, studied skeletal remains from Franchthi cave, Athens, Kea, Nauplion, Corinth, and Asine; supported by the Hrdlička Fund. Organized a symposium on paleodemography, diseases and human evolution at the 66th meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.
1969 -- Field work in the Near East: studied material from Kephala, Karatas, and Franchthi cave; supported by the Hrdlička Fund and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
1970 -- Visiting Professor, Harvard University (Spring). Organized the 39th meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held in Washington, D.C.
1971 -- The People of Lerna: Analysis of a Prehistoric Aegean Population.
1972 -- Field work in the Near East: studied skeletons from Asine and Agora in Greece; supported by the Hrdlička Fund. 1974
1974 -- Organized a symposium in honor of Albert Damon, a medical anthropologist, at the 43rd meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1974-1975 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington.
1975 -- Field work in the Near East: studied skeletons at Asine and Agora in Greece and at Elmali, helped by David C. Fredenburg, and supported by the Hrdlička Fund; joined the American Academy of Forensic Sciences as a Provisional Member; published Human skeletons from Eleusis, in The south cemetery of Eleusis; worked on the organizing committees for meetings in Washington, D.C. for the Archaeological Institute of America.
1976 -- Studied skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, with the help of David Fredenburg (3 trips); organized a symposium in honor of T. Dale Stewart at the 45th meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held in St. Louis, Missouri.
1977 -- Field work in the Near East: worked in Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Ankara, Elmali, and Athens; field visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
1978 -- Field work in the Near East: studied skeletons from Byzantium and Turkey; skeletons were in Ankara and from Kalinkaya in the Hittite Territory of Central Anatolia; Byzantium specimens came from Kalenderhane Camii in Istanbul; field visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
1979 -- Published symposium in Angel's honor by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists; three days of field work at the British Museum (Natural History) during which he studied Egyptian and Greek skulls.
1979 -- Studied skeletons of African American slaves from Catoctin Furnace, Maryland.
1980 -- Field visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
1980-1985 -- President, American Board of Forensic Anthropology. 1982
1982 -- Field visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
1983 -- Awarded the Pomerance Medal for Scientific Contributions to Archaelogy by the Archaeological Institute of America.
1984 -- Studied upper paleolithic skeletons from Wade Kubbaniya; award from the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
1986 -- Died November 3; award from the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; was chosen to receive the Distinguished Service Award of the American Anthropological Association at their annual meeting in December.
1987 -- Memorial session in Angel's honor held at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Related Materials:
Additional materials in the National Anthropological Archives relating to Angel are in the papers of Marcus Solomon Goldstein, Raoul Weston LaBarre, and Waldo Rudolph and Mildred Mott Wedel; the records of the American Anthropological Association, the Central States Anthropological Society, the River Basin Surveys, and the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History; Photographic Lots 7D (photograph taken at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association at Denver in 1965) and 77-45 (group portrait of Smithsonian physical anthropologists); and MS 4822 (photographs of anthropologists in the Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History). There are also materials on Angel in the non-archival reference file maintained by the NAA. The names used for ethnic groups were selected to maintain consistency among the archival holdings and are used without regard to modern preferences.
Provenance:
Angel contracted hepatitis following coronary by-pass surgery in 1982 and died of the effects four years later. His papers were obtained by the National Anthropological Archives shortly thereafter. Some papers were obtained as the result of a bequest by Angel's wife, Margaret. The papers date from 1930 to 1987.
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Old Salmon River Trail. From Hwy 26 turn South on E Welches Road. Continue on road past golfcourse and neighborhoods to national forest. Park at the Old Salmon River Trailhead. Population begins about 10 minutes in on the trail., Clackamas, Oregon, United States, North America
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The two-acre garden with rustic features was built beginning in 1996 on a site with many challenges: wetlands restrictions on most of their entire 23-1/3 acre property; compacted soil and fill dirt with a high pH around their newly constructed Arts and Crafts style house; a steep difference in elevation between the building and the ground; and surrounding woodlands populated by deer, fox and wild fowl that would feast on whatever native and other ornamentals the owners planted. The owners wanted a low maintenance naturalistic style garden with minimal walls and terraces that would sustain the local ecology and conservation value of their property. The resulting garden with seven different defined rooms evolved over the next twelve years. Deer fencing was installed around one acre with rustic arbors and gates. Maple, boxwood and a crabapple allée where planted at the entry court. Next the meadow along the drive to the house was planted with a wildflower mix; deer ate most of the flowers and left the grasses which, with the addition of 1000 daffodil bulbs, provide three seasons of interest. The deer garden and shade garden has eight-foot tall fencing disguised by ornamental screens, low boxwood hedges, perennials beds and ferns. The courtyard and lilac terrace with a water feature has low shrubs planted along the walls, and hardscape built for the transition from the higher elevation of the house to the landscape. Viburnum under planted with liriope softens the staircase from the house while stachys and heucheras soften rough stone walls. In addition to the tank style water feature there is a small greenhouse with a butterfly, herb and small vegetable garden close to the house. Below the two terraces a rockery was installed on the steep slope that was paved with boulders and stepping stones leaving space for stabilizing plants including miniature forsythia, Japanese maple, hemlock, bearberry, lady's mantle and columbine. The Zen garden has stacked stones on a bed of grass shaded by tupelo and surrounded by red twig dogwood and hydrangea that screen the deer fence.
There is a moonlight garden below the lower terrace planted with trees and shrubs that have white flowers or gray foliage to capture the shimmer of lights from the moon and the pool. Elms that did not survive were replaced by oak trees and the perennials, grasses and ground covers planted between rough stones have included white Echinacea, liatris, nicotiana, nigella, phlox and thyme that thrive depending on the increasing level of shade and depredations by groundhogs. The raised beds in the cottage garden were intended for cutting flowers and some vegetables but after the groundhogs invaded they were planted with peonies and raspberry brambles, shaded by ironwood. The trees in the native shrub border were planted to create habitat and include buckeye, pepperbush, winterberry, dogwood, and redwood. Another allée of redbud leads out of the garden towards the fire pit that overlooks the woodlands, wetlands and one of the streams on the property. The owner's hand has not stopped here as the woodlands also have been restored by removing invasive vines and shrubs and planting more native shrubs and trees. Wetlands plantings included sycamore, alder, and river birch to help stabilize storm water runoff. Ornamental oat grass was planted to compete with invasive stilt grass, while a grove of native paw paw has yet to fruit.
Persons associated with the garden include William and Betty Turnbull and Turnbull family members (former owners, 1800's-); Fred Spicer (landscape architect, 1996-1997); Ron Enyingi (landscaper, 1997-2001); Romancing the Woods (rustic arbors, 1998-2001); Steve Lambert (landscaper, 2004-2010).
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More than 60 million people live in the Mekong basin - speakers of at least a hundred languages. Some of the region's ethno-linguistic groups, such as the Khmer, Thai, and Vietnamese, number in the tens of millions, while others have populations of only a hundred or so people. Their livelihoods are as diverse as their ethnicities: the Mekong region includes tiny mountain villages of a dozen households, where people eke out a living from hillside rice fields, and densely populated plains and deltas, where the river's waters flow into rice paddies that are harvested three times annually. But the region also includes bustling modern cities of a million or more people and industries ranging from rubber plants and textile factories to high-tech production facilities. Unparalleled in the diversity of its fisheries, the Mekong region is not only the rice bowl of Asia, but also its fish basket.
How to introduce this huge, diverse, and complex region to visitors at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival? How to select some two hundred people to represent tens of millions? How best to give Festival visitors a sense of the challenging cultural choices that confront the Mekong region and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twenty-first century? And how to mobilize the support of governments, funders, researchers, and communities to make the whole effort possible? These were the questions facing Smithsonian experts and their Mekong counterparts as planning for the Festival began in 2004.
A unique and complex process of collaborative planning brought together a network of regional experts who shaped the program over several years in a series of consultative meetings, training workshops, and review sessions, made possible in large part by the Rockefeller Foundation. Their first task was to identify several themes that would guide the research, planning, and participant selection and would later help Festival visitors gain a coherent sense of this vast and complicated region.
The first theme was that of the Mekong River itself - of water as the sustainer of life. The second theme examined rivers and water as the focus of shared symbolic meanings and artistic expressions for the peoples of the Mekong region. The third theme considered the Mekong and its tributaries not only as channels of communication and commerce, but also, in places, as daunting barriers that inhibited contacts between neighbors. Finally, the fourth theme took up the tremendous diversity - geographic, environmental, ethnic, and cultural - that characterizes the Mekong region. Throughout, the organizers and several dozen Mekong-region researchers, who carried out the fieldwork leading to the Festival, were guided by the fundamental understanding that certain core cultural values were shared among the peoples of the Mekong region, despite the great diversity of their languages, religions, and histories.
Visitors to The Mekong River: Connecting Cultures program could not hear the sounds of cocks crowing to welcome the rising sun or of kites singing to chase away the clouds. They did not smell the pungent fumes of burning gunpowder as rockets in the shape of nagas lofted skyward to ensure sufficient rain or the heady odors of fish fermenting in pots to make Cambodian prahok, Lao pha daek, or Vietnamese mam ca. They could not view the pockets of fog settling into Yunnan mountain passes in the morning sun, the flood waters stretching from one horizon to the other at the end of the rainy season, or the verdant green of rice paddies as far as the eye can see. But Festival organizers were confident that the two hundred musicians, singers, cooks, craftspeople, ritual specialists, and dancers who came to the banks of the Potomac from the banks of the Mekong were, nevertheless, able to give visitors a sense of the region and its remarkable people.
For the Smithsonian, James Deutsch, Richard Kennedy, Frank Proschan, and Lan-Lan Wang constituted the Curatorial Team; Arlene Reiniger was Program Coordinator; Kim Stryker was Family Learning Sala Coordinator; Steven Prieto was Pu'er Teahouse Coordinator; and Jane Griffiths was Marketplace Consultant. The Cambodia Curatorial Team included H.E. Samraing Kamsan, Sam-Ang Sam, and Suon Bun Rith; Suon Bun Rith also served as Program Coordinator. The China-Yunnan Steering Committee included Yan Youqiong, Zheng Ming, Fan Jianhua, Yang Fuquan, Xie Mohua, Zhou Yunxiang, and Dai Shiping. Jin Qiang was Lead Coordinator; Leng Yunping and Ma Yinghui were Coordinators; and Jiang Weili, Wang Jun, and Yang Hongwen were Assistant Coordinators. The Laos Curatorial and Coordinating Team included Chanthaphilith Chiemsisouraj, Kanha Sikounnavong, Khammanh Siphanxay, Outtala Vanyouveth, and Souriyanh Sisaengrat. The Thailand Curatorial, Steering, and Coordinating Team included Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool, Suvanna Kriengkraipetch, Chewasit Boonyakiet, Sareeya Boontum, and Somrak Chaisingananont. The Vietnam Coordinating Team included Dang Van Bai, Le Thi Minh Ly, Le Hong Ly, Luu Tran Tieu, Ngo Duc Thinh, Nguyen Chi Ben, Nguyen Van Huy, and To Ngoc Thanh; and the Vietnam Curatorial Team was Nguyen Kim Dung, Nguyen Duc Tang, and Pham Cao Quy.
The program was produced in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Thailand, the People's Government of Yunnan Province of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Information and Culture of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and in collaboration with Aid to Artisans, Amrita Performing Arts, China Yunnan International Culture Exchange, Connecticut College, and the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre. Major donors included the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional donors and supporters included the McKnight Foundation, American Express, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Smithsonian Women's Committee. Additional funding came from the Henry J. Fox Trust and Refugees International.
Researchers:
Research trainers
Chanthaphilith Chiemsisouraj, Charlie Weber, Chavivan Prachuabmoh, Cynthia Vidaurri, Frank Proschan, Nguyen Truong Giang, Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool, Richard Kennedy, Sam-Ang Sam, Stephen Kidd, Suriya Smutkupt, Suvanna Kriengkraipetch
Researchers
Amphaka Mata, Anachanh Soukanya, Anupap Sakulngam, Bui Phat Diem, Bui Thi Phuong Mai, Chanvit Tiraprasert, Chewasit Boonyakiet, Dang Kim Quy, Dang Van Hung, Fan Jianhua, Hoang Huang, Huang Yindan, Jiang Weili, Jin Qiang, Kanha Sikounnavong, Khammay Thavivanh, Khampheng Soulignavong, Korakot Boonlop, Lan-Lan Wang, Leng Yunping, Lu Van Hoi, Ma Yinghui, Mai My Duyen, Mok Ravi, Mourn Sopheap, Nguyen Dinh To, Nguyen Duc Tang, Nguyen Minh Tam, Nguyen Thi Thu Huang, Nguyen Van Thien, Nguyen Xuan Hoanh, Oudom, Outtala Vanyouveth, Panita Sarawasee, Phal Pisey, Pham Cao Quy, Pham Quoc Vinh, Phan Thanh Bang, Phengsavanh Vongchandy, Phoeurn Revant, Phoukhong Kinglattana, Prak Born, Prak Sokhorn, Prak Sonnara, Sam-Ang Sam, Sareeya Boontham, Sarinya Khammuang, Soem Chhayarith, Sirinut Khutaka, Sivilay Chanthavong, Som Phrasayamonkhounh, Som Prapey, Somchai Jayaw, Somchai Nil-Athi, Sommai Chinnak, Somphon Silasak, Somrak Chaisingkananont, Somsak Sibunreung, Son Luong, Songsak Kaewmoon, Souriyanh Sisengrath, Sun Sovanny, Sunee Prasongbandit, Suon Bun Rith, Supara Maneerat, Tran Van Hanh, Try Suphearac, Ung Sreng, Vaeng Phommalinh, Vongpraseut, Vongsavanh Vongmoungkhoun, Wang Jun, Xie Mohua, Ya Da, Yang Fuquan, Yang Hongwen, Yang Rathana, Yang Xiaoda, Yongxiang Li, Yu Ming, Yun Mane, Zheng Ming, Zhou Yunxiang
Presenters:
An Thu Tra, Bountheng Souksavadt, Bui Thi Phuong Mai, Chanthaboupha Vongsaravan, Chanvit Tiraprasert, Chewasit Boonyakiet, Frank Proschan, Helen Rees, Jing Li, Korakot Boonlop, La Thi Thanh Thuy, Lan-Lan Wang, Le Tung Lam, Leedom Lefferts, Louise Cort, Luo Lin, Ma Yihua, Mo Cunyan, Nghiem Xuan Dong, Nguyen Duc Tang, Nguyen Kim Dung, Pham Cao Quy, Phan Thanh Bang, Phetmalayvan Keobounma, Phoeurn Revant, Pichet Saiphan, Prapassorn Posrithong, Ratana Tosakul, Sam Thida, Sam-Ang Sam, Somrak Chaisingkananont, Suon Bun Rith, Suriya Smutkupt, Suvanna Kriengkraipetch, Tran Thi Thu Thuy, Yang Xinyu, Yun Mane, Zhao Jin
Participants:
CRAFT TRADITIONS
Bahnar Arts
A Kheng, 1978-, canoe maker, Vietnam
A Thao, 1979-, canoe maker, Vietnam
A Tik, 1968-, canoe maker, Vietnam
Bamboo Crafts
Bai Yongxing, Dai bamboo weaver, Yunnan
Bounmy Vannasone, Kmhmu basket maker, Laos
Gen Dequan, Dai reed pipe maker, Yunnan
Khampian Serlorborny, basket maker, Laos
Rasee Maedmingngao, 1951-, mouth organ maker, Thailand
Pong Lang Music Ensemble -- Pong Lang Music EnsembleAcha Phali, 1983-, mouth organ player, singerDecha Boong-U-Toom, 1978-, mouth organ and flute playerNarakorn Khamsopa, 1980-, instrumentalistNutthanun Imsombut, 1979-, instrumentalistPongtorn Panphad, 1980-, instrumentalistResuan Perin, 1982-, percussionist
Salor-Sor-Seung Music Ensemble -- Salor-Sor-Seung Music EnsembleAmnuay Moeikham, 1966-Duangdee Prayong, 1946-Porn Lapa, 1947-Thongdee Khrueawong, 1955-
Bahnar Rongao Gong and Drum Ensemble -- Bahnar Rongao Gong and Drum EnsembleA Bek, 1930-A Dan, 1978-A Hyan, 1980-A Jut, 1961-A Kheng, 1978-A KhoaiA Nhur, 1957-A Rup, 1977-A Thao, 1979-A Thunh, 1964-A Thut, 1957-A Tik, 1968-A Trao, 1973-A TropY Gai, 1987-Y Gyai, 1987-
Don Ca Tai Tu Vietnamese Folk Music -- Don Ca Tai Tu Vietnamese Folk MusicDang Van Su, 1962-Dang Van Toai, 1949-Duong Minh Khuong, 1964-Huynh Hoa Guong, 1968-Pham Van Loan (Tu Loan), 1964-
Hat Boi Folk Opera -- Hat Boi Folk OperaHuynh Thi Yen Linh, 1973-Huynh Van Hen, 1949-Pham Van Muoi Mot, 1964-Nguyen Van Thinh, 1963-Nguyen Van Tot
Khmer Robam Music and Dance -- Khmer Robam Music and DanceLam HuynhLam PhuongLam Thanh HungLam Thi Huang
Yi Music -- Yi MusicGao HongzhangHe WenxingLuo Fengxue
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
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Introduction:
The Northern Ireland at the Smithsonian program took place at a seminal moment in Northern Irish history, following a ten-year period of relative peace and stability and the restoration of Northern Ireland's political institutions. More than 160 participants from throughout Northern Ireland - the region's finest performers, artists, craftspeople, cooks, athletic coaches, and occupational experts - came to the National Mall to explain, demonstrate, and celebrate contemporary life in their beautiful, dynamic homeland.
The Festival program may have come as a surprise to some visitors. Like so much else about contemporary Northern Ireland, day-to-day reality transcends assumptions and challenges stereotypes. Northern Ireland is changing rapidly: in 2007, it was a sophisticated, forward-looking society with a booming post-industrial economy and a renewed sense of confidence in the future. Traditional culture, which in the past sometimes divided communities, now contributed to a shared future and fostered inter-community relationships.
Northern Ireland's greatest strengths have always been the warmth, hospitality, and humor of its people. It has a population of approximately 1.7 million and five cities - each with its own unique character - and Belfast as its capital. It also has a large rural community that consists of a network of market towns and villages. Part of the United Kingdom, it shares a verdant island with the Republic of Ireland and comprises six of the nine counties of the ancient province of Ulster: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. Few regions of the world have contributed more to the formation of modern American culture than Northern Ireland. Since the seventeenth century, a succession of immigrants from the region has had a profound impact on the development of the United States, heavily influencing culture, politics, education, science, religion, agriculture, and industry. At least seventeen U.S. presidents are claimed by Northern Ireland as her descendants.
Music in Northern Ireland takes place in myriad settings - kitchens, parlors, and pubs, as well as schools, festivals, and concert halls. Not infrequently, traditional forms of instrumental music - jigs, reels, marches, and polkas - attract dancers who happily spend evenings weaving the complex patterns of ancient Irish dances onto modern dance floors. Even as beloved old tunes are performed and sung for today's listeners, tomorrow's music continues to be created. Modern technology - recordings, radio, iPods, and cell phones - often helps spread the latest traditional-style compositions. Irish music, like other Celtic music, enjoys a worldwide popularity that few would have predicted only a few years before.
Although textile arts are particularly strong, numerous other crafts and art industries flourish in Northern Ireland. Specialized crafts are practiced in ateliers and workshops throughout Northern Ireland, where many artisans produce work such as jewelry, ceramics, glass, and clothing on a commercial or semi-commercial basis. Some craftspeople specialize in making musical instruments, including uniquely Irish bodhrans, Lambeg drums, and uilleann bagpipes.
Another highlight of the Festival was Northern Ireland's unmistakable alimentary dialect - rich in diversity, fiercely independent, and supportive of local produce. Although much of the cuisine is heavily inspired by English and, to some extent, European fare, a flair for culinary innovation and exceptional resourcefulness have allowed the province to develop an entirely unique food culture. Other Festival presentations featured language, local history and heritage, and sports - all contributing to provide Festival visitors with an introduction to the fabled past, vibrant present, and exciting future of this beautiful place.
Nancy Groce was Curator and Jason Morris was Program Coordinator. A Curatorial Group included: Valerie Adams, Frances Bailey, Hazel Campbell, Heather Carr, Mick Cory, Anthony Cranney, Paul Flynn, Olga Gallagher, John Gilmour, Helen Gormley, John Gray, Linda Greenwood, Philip Hammond, Nick Harkness, Cathy Hurst, Aubrey Irwin, Colin Jack, Joe Kelly, Brian Lambkin, Fiona Lavery, Shan McAnena, Katherine McCloskey, Aideen McGinley, Colm McGivern, Declan McGovern, Jim McGreevy, Cathie McKimm, Lisa McMurray, Pat Murphy, Yvonne Murphy, Colette Norwood, Peadar O'Cuinneagain, Alice O'Rawe, George Patton, John Speers, Pat Wilson, and Vanessa Wilson.
The program was produced in partnership with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure of Northern Ireland and with the cooperation of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Rediscover Northern Ireland. Major donors to the Rediscover Northern Ireland program were Titanic Quarter Ltd. and RES. Other donors and supporters were BT, Diageo, Glen Dimplex Group, Grafton ESP, Norbrook, Resource, Bank of Ireland, BDO Stoy Hayward, Delta Print and Packaging, First Trust Bank, Henderson Foodservice, McCabes, McAleer & Rushe Group, McLaughlin & Harvey, Northern Bank, Seagate, Ulster Carpets, Belleek, FireIMC, Harrison Photography, and Northbrook Technology.
Researchers and fieldworkers:
Linda Ballard, Maurice Bradley, Anne Burke, John Edmund, Paul Flynn, Sarah McDowell, Dympna McElhinney, Colum Sands
Participants:
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS
Bob Johnston, 1969-, basket maker, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland
Maureen Paterson, 1946-, hat maker, milliner, Islandmagee, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
VISUAL ARTS
The Bogside Artists -- The Bogside ArtistsKevin Hasson, 1958-, muralist, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern IrelandTom Kelly, 1959-, muralist, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern IrelandWill Kelly, 1948-, muralist, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
East Belfast Muralists -- East Belfast MuralistsDavid "Dee" Craig, 1971-, muralist, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern IrelandRachel Sinnamon, 1984-, muralist, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
William Magowan, 1970-, banner painter, Garvagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Tomás Ó Maonaigh, 1963-, claymation and animation, The Nerve Centre, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Gary Rosborough, 1962-, claymation and animation, The Nerve Centre, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
FOODWAYS
Norah Brown, 1938-, foodways, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Hugh Browne, 1949-, foodways, Warrenspoint, County Down, Northern Ireland
Reverend Robert James Mattison, 1948-, foodways, Poyntz Pass, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland
Liz Moore, 1972-, foodways, Belle Isle, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE/PERFORMING ARTS
Mary Fox and the All Set Ensemble -- Mary Fox and the All Set EnsembleSheila Boylan, 1971-, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern IrelandIan Carmichael, 1962-, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern IrelandCaroline Fegan, 1965-, Newry, County Down, Northern IrelandMary Fox, 1960-, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern IrelandPadraig Mac Cionnaith, 1952-, Coulommiers, France
Armagh Pipers Club/Vallely Family -- Armagh Pipers Club/Vallely FamilyEithne Vallely, 1945-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern IrelandCaoimhin Vallely, 1977-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern IrelandCillian Vallely, 1977-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland and Woodside, New YorkNiall Vallely, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Armagh Rhymers -- Armagh RhymersBrendan Bailey, 1943-, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern IrelandAnne Hart, 1955-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern IrelandPeter J. Shortall, 1945-, Keady, County Armagh, Northern IrelandDara Vallely, 1946-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Aughakillymaude Community Mummers -- Aughakillymaude Community MummersLeanne Drumm, 1986-, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandCarina Ferguson, 1987-, Belcoo, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandJim Ledwith, 1957-, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandMichael McBarron, 1946-, Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandAdrian McBrien, 1982-, Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandDonard McClean, 1944-, Bangor, County Down, Northern IrelandDessie Reilly, 1943-, Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Craobh Rua -- Craobh RuaMichael Cassidy, 1966-, Dundrum, County Antrim, Northern IrelandBrian Connolly, 1961-, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern IrelandConor Lamb, 1986-, Crumlin, County Antrim, Northern IrelandJames Rainey, 1974-, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Lucy Mulholland and Cuckoo's Nest -- Lucy Mulholland and Cuckoo's NestLucy Mulholland, 1948-, Carryduff, County Down, Northern IrelandLyn Rankin, 1950-, Carryduff, County Down, Northern IrelandJames McElheran, 1942-, Cushendun, County Antrim, Northern IrelandDominic McNabb, 1932-, Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern IrelandPatsy Downey, 1937-, Belfast, County Down, Northern Ireland
Four Men and a Dog -- Four Men and a DogKevin Doherty, 1967-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern IrelandCathal Hayden, 1963-, Pomeroy, County Tyrone, Northern IrelandGino Lupari, 1958-, Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern IrelandDonal Murphy, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern IrelandGerry O'Connor, 1960-, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Len Graham, 1944-, singer, Mullaghbawn, Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Hidden Fermanagh -- Hidden FermanaghGabriel McArdle, 1949-, singer, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandCathal McConnell, flutist, singer, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and Edinburgh, ScotlandJim McGrath, 1956-, accordionist, Monea, County Fermanagh, Northern IrelandPat McManus, 1958-, fiddler, Teemore, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
George Holmes, 1946-, banjo, dulcimer, flute, Lambeg drum, -- bodhran -- , Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland
John Kennedy, 1928-, ballad singer, fife and whistle, Cullybackey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Low Country Boys -- The Low Country BoysIvan McFerran, 1959-, Glastry, Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern IrelandMark Thompson, 1972-, Newtownards, County Down, Northern IrelandGraeme Thompson, 1974-, Newtownards, County Down, Northern IrelandGibson Young, 1962-, Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland
Jack Lynch, 1952-, storyteller, County Armagh, Northern Ireland and Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Micil Ned Quinn, 1926-, singer, raconteur, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland
Colum Sands, 1951-, singer-songwriter, Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland
Tommy Sands, singer-songwriter, Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland
Session Band -- Session BandMaurice Bradley, 1962-, Draperstown, County Londonderry, Northern IrelandCatherine Sands, 1971-, Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern IrelandMichael Sands, 1971-, Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Nisha Tandon, 1957-, dancer, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Robert Watt, 1978-, bagpiper, Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Roisin White, 1950-, singer, Cavanacaw, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Mark Wilson, 1971-, percussionist, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Lee Lawson, percussionist, Campbelltown, Argyll, Scotland
HISTORY AND HERITAGE
Colin Breen, 1969-, marine archaeologist, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Wes Forsythe, 1971-, marine archaeologist, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Rosemary McConkey, marine archaeologist, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Maybelline Gormley, archaeologist, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Declan Hurl, 1956-, archaeologist, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Kenneth Shilliday, mason, restorer, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Valerie Adams, 1948-, genealogist, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Philip McDermott, 1980-, oral historian, University of Ulster/Magee Campus, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Christine McIvor, 1952-, genealogist, Centre for Migration Studies/Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries -- Harland and Wolff Heavy IndustriesDavid McVeigh, 1970-, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern IrelandIan Ritchie, 1959-, mechanical fitter, Newtownabby, County Antrim, Northern IrelandJohn Robinson, 1955-, draftsman, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Thomas Fergusons Irish Linen -- Thomas Fergusons Irish LinenNigel Spiers, 1961-, weaver, Gilford, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern IrelandJonathan Neilly, 1987-, weaver, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland
Eel Fishing in Lough Neagh -- Eel Fishing in Lough NeaghJohn Quinn, 1973-, eel fisher, Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern IrelandTommy John Quinn, 1923-, eel fisher, Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern IrelandDanny Donnelly, 1938-, eel fisher, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Louise Lilburn, 1984-, cattle breeder, Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland
Mary McCormack, 1954-, farmer, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Joe McDonald, 1972-, farmer, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
John Rankin, 1942-, dairy farmer, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland
John Gilliland, 1965-, farmer, Rural Generation Ltd./Brook Hall Estate, Londonderry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Alistair McCracken, 1951-, food scientist, mycologist, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Mark McGuigan, 1972-, project manager, technical supervisor, Omagh College of Further Education, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Tim Volk, forester, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York
SPORTS AND GAMES
Margaret Deevy, 1973-, children's sports, PlayBoard, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Trevor Erskine, 1955-, Irish Football Association, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
David McVeigh, Irish Football Association, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Brian Gardiner, 1963-, motorcycle racer, Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Niall McShea, 1974-, rally driver, Markethill, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Michael Black, 1974-, Irish Rugby Football Union Ulster Branch (Ulster Rugby), Kilfennan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Barry Willis, 1981-, Irish Rugby Football Union Ulster Branch (Ulster Rugby), Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Collection Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Introduction:
Approaching Bermuda by air or sea, one notices first that the isles are opulently landscaped and impeccably adorned with lush gardens and pastel architecture. For its 300,000 yearly visitors and 60,000 islanders alike it is a land that is small in area but rich in culture. Bermuda is at once a geographic place and cultural space - a creation of human enterprise, artistry, and effort.
Bermuda's local culture grew out of the island's strategic location. From its very early settlement this tiny archipelago was a central navigational landmark between the British lsles, mainland America, the Caribbean, and later the Azores. Patterns of travel and exchange have continued to rejuvenate the cultural fabric of the island colony. These patterns have been a source of material goods, population, and culture. People, ideas, and goods, along with music, foods, and other forms of culture, flow out and back from Bermuda with the regularity of the ocean tides. Bermudian folklife is the creative, pragmatic, and unique fusion of these cosmopolitan trends - a fusion that was vividly on display to visitors at the 2001 Festival.
Bermudians value the resourcefulness with which they turn circumstances to their own use. In keeping with their perception of constant risk yet relative good fortune, they are realists, opportunists, and yet careful to acknowledge divine providence (there are more local religious establishments per person than most places in the world). They endeavor to use every resource; to watch what and who enters and leaves the island; to foster, nurture, and manage connections between family and community. They maintain clear borders between insiders and outsiders. These values permeate Bermudian experience. Bermudian culture shapes the island, and the island shape Bermudian culture. Festival visitors could share in this Bermudian experience, if only for a few hours, as it was transported to the National Mall for two weeks during the Festival.
Diana Baird N'Diaye was Curator, with Jackie Aubrey as Program Coordinator for Bermuda, and Yulette George as Program Coordinator for the U.S. The Bermuda Coordinating Committee included: Heather Whalen, Cultural Affairs Officer; Geneva Humdy-Woodley, Development and Sponsorship Relations; Linda Smith, Public Relations.
An Advisory Roundtable included: Charlotte Andrews, Johnny Barnes, R. Bruce Barritt, Jolene Bean, Geoff Bell, Joanne Brangman, Gary Burgess, Alan Burland, The Hon. Dale Butler, J.P., M.P., Karen Cabral, Colin Campbell, George Cook, Eddy DeMello, Connie Dey, Caroldey Douglas, Llewellyn Emery, Richard Fell, Glenn Fubler, Eloise Furbert, LaVerne Furbert, Sylvie Gervais, Joe Gibbons, Jennifer Gray, Joyce D. Hall, Edward Harris, Randolph Hayward, Carol Hill, Eva Hodgson, Sharon Jacobs, Elizabeth Kawaley, Ed Kelly, Stanley Kennedy, Fanon Khaldun, Ronald Lightbourne, Elsie Martin, Clarence Maxwell, Florenz Webbe Maxwell, Conchita Ming, Frederick Ming, Marshall Minors, Beverley Morfitt, Stanley Oliver, Amanda Outerbridge, Elise Outerbridge, Graeme Outerbridge, John Payne, Shirley Pearman, Ira Phillip, M.B.E., J.P., Liz Pimental, Robert Pires, Patricia Pogson, Grace Rawlins, Anthony Richardson, Veronica Ross, Dennis Sherwin, Llewellyn Simmons, Senator Calvin Smith, James Smith, Mary Talbot, Ruth Thomas, Shangri-La Durham Thompson, James Tucker, Yvona Vujacic, Jack Ward, Mary Winchell, and James Zuill.
The program was produced in partnership with the Bermuda Government Departments of Community and Cultural Affairs within the Ministry of the Environment, Development & Opportunity and The Bermuda Connections Smithsonian Folk life Festival Charitable Trust. The Leadership Committee was chaired by The Honourable Terry E. Lister, J.P., M.P. Major contributors included the Bank of Bermuda Foundation, the Bermuda Hotel Association, BELCO, Cable a Wireless, Tyco International Ltd., ACE Limited, The Argus Group, and Centre Solutions. Major in-kind support was provided by the Bermuda Container Line, the Bermuda Hotel Association, Appleby, Spurling a Kempe, Bermuda Export Sea Transfer, Stevedoring Services, XL Capital Ltd., and Deloitte & Touche.
Researchers, Presenters, and Curatorial Committee:
Marcelle Beach, Bonnie Exell, Rawle Frederick, Joe Gibbons, Nan Godet, Ronald Lightbourne, Diana Lynn, Florenz Webbe Maxwell, Elizabeth Pedro, Gary Phillips, Patricia Phillips, Robert Pires, Llewellen Simmons, Ruth Thomas, Lynne Thorne, James Tucker, Joy Wilson Tucker, Cynthia Vidaurri, Shirley White, James Ziral, John Zuill, William Zuill
Presenters:
Jolene Bean, Llewellyn Emery, Bonnie Exell, Rawle Fredrick, Joe Gibbons, Nan Godet, Randy Horton, Ron Lightbourne, Fred Ming, Elizabeth Pedro, Gary Phillips, Patricia Phillips, Llewellyn Simmons, Vejay Steede, Ruth Thomas, Lynne Thorne, James Tucker, Joy Wilson Tucker, Judith Wadson, Shirley White
Participants:
Arts of the Sea
Chris Flook, specimen collector, Smith's, Bermuda
Lisa Haynes, Seagull racer, boat builder, Hamilton, Bermuda
Llewellyn Hollis, fisherman, Pembroke, Bermuda
Michael Hooper, model boat maker, Warwick, Bermuda
Nick Hutchings, diver, Somerset, Bermuda
Royle Kemp, sailor, Southampton, Bermuda
Anson Nash, boat builder, Bermuda
George Outerbridge, glass bottom boat guide, St. George's, Bermuda
APEX 4 QUARTET, HAMILTON PARISH -- APEX 4 QUARTET, HAMILTON PARISHEric Whitter, group leader, vocals, Hamilton Parish, BermudaGary Bean, vocals, Hamilton Parish, BermudaHarry Bean, vocals, Hamilton Parish, BermudaRobert Symonds, vocals, Hamilton Parish, Bermuda
MOSAIC -- MOSAICGary Phillips, spoken word, Paget, BermudaGrace Rawlins, spoken word, St. David's, BermudaRuth Thomas, spoken word, Southampton, Bermuda
NOT THE UM-UM PLAYERS -- NOT THE UM-UM PLAYERSBruce Barritt, satirist, spoken word, Devonshire, BermudaFred Barritt, satirist, spoken word, Pembroke, BermudaChris Broadhurst, satirist, spoken word, Hinson's Island, BermudaPeter Smith, satirist, spoken word, Warwick, BermudaTim Taylor, satirist, spoken word, Devonshire, Bermuda
BERMUDA PIPE BAND, ST. GEORGE'S -- BERMUDA PIPE BAND, ST. GEORGE'SDavid Frith, leader, St. George's, BermudaJoel Cassidy, St. George's, BermudaGeorge Cooke, St. George's, BermudaJosh Simons, St. George's, Bermuda
CRICKET LEGENDS -- CRICKET LEGENDSColin Blades, captain, batsman, radio commentator, Paget, BermudaGladstone Brown, opening batsman, Southampton, BermudaAllan Douglas, cricket coach, wicket keeper, St. George's, BermudaDarin Lewis, all-rounder, Warwick, BermudaAllan "Forty" Rego, Sr., crown and anchor, Warwick, BermudaMansfield "Bojangles" Smith, groundskeeper, St. George's, BermudaWendell Smith, cricket coach, St. George's, BermudaDennis Wainwright, wicket keeper, opening batsman, St. George's, BermudaC.V. Woolridge, cricket commentator, Smith's, BermudaWarrington "Soup" Zuill, cricket storyteller, St. George's, Smith's, Bermuda
ST. GEORGE'S CRICKET CLUB, ST. GEORGE'S -- ST. GEORGE'S CRICKET CLUB, ST. GEORGE'SLouis DeSilva, president, St. George's, BermudaJason Anderson, St. George's, BermudaAnkoma Cannonier, St. George's, BermudaMaxwell Crane, St. George's, BermudaEugene Foggo, St. George's, BermudaGregory Foggo, St. George's, BermudaKameron Fox, St. George's, BermudaSinclair Gibbons, St. George's, BermudaKenny Phillips, St. George's, BermudaMark Ray, St. George's, BermudaAndrew Richardson, St. George's, BermudaDetroy Smith, St. George's, BermudaRyan Steede, St. George's, Bermuda
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
