Photograph of the Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three girls and three boys dressed in traditional clothing are forming a circle and dancing with their hands on their hips or behind their backs. The girls dresses are blue and red with white aprons. The boys are wearing white shirts, blue pants, and red cloth belts. Behind them, a line of adult dancers are on stage, clapping along with them.

Photograph of Filipino dancers performing the tinikling dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two people kneeling on the ground are tapping poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with two dancers who are stepping over and in between the poles. The dancers, one male and one female, are facing each and holding hands with one hand behind their back.

Photograph of female Mexican folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The group of girls in colorful dresses are twirling their big, ruffly skirts around on stage. Each girl is wearing a different solid color of either red, green, blue, orange, or white.

Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing together to the music of the Cajun Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are standing across from each other, Mary on the left and Jim on the right. Mary is wearing blue pants, black sandals, and a white shirt. Her gray hair is piled up on her head in a large bun. Jim is wearing khaki pants, brown boots, a white shirt, and a white vest with red trim.

Photograph of the Cajun Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The singer is out in front, holding a microphone and standing in front of a fiddler and an accordion player. A guitarist is standing on the right side of the stage and a bassist and lap steel player are on the far left. At the back of the stage is the drummer, amongst many amps and speakers. The stage is set up at the bottom of a brush-covered hill.

Photograph of a red roving cart filled with Mexican candy and fruit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The cart is decorated with many different colors of paper flowers. Two young women are standing at the cart, ready to serve festival visitors. One of the young women is holding a watermelon and wearing a traditional Mexican dress, red with yellow embroidery.

Photograph of the Laredo Bayanihan Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all female, dressed in white blouses, yellow head wraps and green and yellow horizontally-striped skirts.

Photograph of gunsmith David Howell, with Brazoria Militia, making a gun at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Sitting at a work bench, he is carving the stock of a rifle from a piece of wood. He is wearing round glasses, a wide-brimmed leather hat, a white shirt, brown pants, and boots.

Photograph of a gristmill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man is kneeling next to the small red machine which grinds grain into flour.

Photograph of Dixie Deike and Liz Deike making coon oil cookies at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are rolling small balls of dough and placing them on cookie sheets on the table in front of them. Liz, on the right, has red hair and is wearing glasses, a red and yellow dress, and a white apron. Dixie, on the left, has short dark hair is wearing a pink shirt and a white apron with patch pockets.

Photograph of a man and a woman sawing logs for the log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are on either side of a log using a two-man crosscut saw. Visible on the right is the partially constructed log kitchen with logs stacked up to about six feet.

Photograph of a man hanging on to the top of a mast. The mast, which is raised quite high, has a cowbell attached at the top of it. Individuals on the ground look on. A booth in the background is decorated with a banner which is meant to look like the Belgian flag.

Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing together to the music of the Cajun Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are standing across from each other, Mary on the right and Jim on the left. Mary is wearing blue pants, black sandals, and a white shirt. Her gray hair is piled up on her head in a large bun. Jim is wearing khaki pants, brown boots, a white shirt, and a white vest with red trim. In the background, many visitors are on the Institute of Texan Cultures veranda.

Photograph of Charlie Havard demonstrating how to make a fish net at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing overalls and a straw hat, he is sitting in a lawn chair tying knots in a nylon rope that is attached to a table in front of him.

Photograph of goose plucker, Deolece Parmalee, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is sitting on a wooden bench with a white goose in her lap. Wearing a red hat, a plaid shirt, and jeans, she is lifting up one of its wings to look at the underside.

Photograph of Charles Knight carving wood on a treadle lathe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He powers the lathe by pumping the foot pedal, or treadle, which causes the piece of wood to rotate on a fixed axis. He is sitting in front of a wall display of wooden vases and trinkets.

Photograph of two Ukrainian dancers, a man and a woman, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman is on the left wearing a white blouse with red flowers, and a floral headband with long colorful ribbon. The man, on the right, is shirtless and wearing a red cloth belt and blue pants.

Photograph of the horse-powered sugar cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A white horse harnessed to a log pole is walking around in a circle to move the grinding mechanism at the center. Two men are standing at the grinder while another man is following the horse.

Photograph of two young girls participating in the Gospel Jubilee at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The girl on the right has long brown pigtails and is wearing a calico patterned summer dress. The girl on the left is wearing a yellow gym outfit with the number "12" on it. Both are clapping and singing along to the music.

Photograph of a young African-American boy participating in the Gospel Jubilee at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a navy and white striped shirt and khaki pants, and is clapping and singing along to the music.

Photograph of Doyle Bryant, with Voices of the Mainland, performing in the Gospel Jubilee at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. His hair is salt and pepper gray and he is wearing a light blue shirt. He is singing with his right arm raised in the air. Another gospel singer is directly behind him, singing into a microphone.

Photograph of Doyle Bryant, with Voices of the Mainland, performing in the Gospel Jubilee at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. His hair is salt and pepper gray and he is wearing a light blue shirt. He is singing or speaking into a microphone and pointing his finger upwards.

Photograph of two Wurstfest Association members at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man and woman are embracing and smiling at one another. The man is wearing a white shirt with a red vest and tie, and an alpine hat. The woman is wearing glasses, and a green and white peasant dress.

Photograph of Doyle Bryant, with Voices of the Mainland, performing in the Gospel Jubilee at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. His hair is salt and pepper gray and he is wearing a light blue shirt. He is singing into a microphone and pointing upwards.