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[Children Holding Balloons at the Opening Ceremony]

Photograph of children holding clusters of balloons at the opening ceremonies at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are facing the right on the right side of the photograph. On the left a group of girls are wearing traditional Dutch bonnets and dresses.
Date: August 6, 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Procession at Opening Ceremony]

Photograph of the opening ceremony procession at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Led by a woman in highland dress playing bagpipes, a crowd of people are coming down the walkway from the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures building. Pennant flags are strung from the roof of the building down to the sides of the walkway.
Date: August 6, 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ribbon Cutting at Opening Ceremony]

Photograph of a man cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Scissors in hand, he has just split the ribbon while three other festival officials are standing beside him. To the left of him, a woman in highland dress is holding bagpipes. To the right is a woman wearing a sun hat, and a man smoking a pipe.
Date: August 6, 1981
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cajun Band Performing]

Photograph of a Cajun band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a young man is playing pedal steel. Behind him a is a violinist and some amplifiers.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jim and Mary Hebert Dancing at Cajun Stage]

Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing in front of the Cajun Stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The area is shaded with trees.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Milking Demonstration]

Photograph of a milking demonstration sponsored by the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association within the Texas Folklife Festival, in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a young man is seating on a concrete block, milking a goat as festival participants watch.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two People in a Rowboat]

Photograph of Golden Triangle Cajun Club members in a rowboat beside Cajun Country at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman is waving toward the camera while the man picks up an oar. On the other side of the pond, festival booths are visible.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Festival Visitors Learning Filipino Tinikling]

Photograph of Filipino Americans teaching festival visitors the tinikling dance in the San Antonio Tinikling School at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Pairs of dancers kneeling on the ground are beating and tapping bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers and visitors who are stepping over and in between the poles in a dance.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Washtub Bass Player in Bill Smallwood Band]

Photograph of a washtub bass player in the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a button-up shirt, suspenders, jeans and boots.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bill Smallwood Band Performing]

Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a harmonica player at center stage, a man in the back playing drums, and a man playing washtub bass on the right.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cajun Country]

Photograph of Cajun Country at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, the area is labeled with a sign on the grass that says, "Cajun Country." In the foreground and wrapping around the area is a pond. In the background, festival booths are lined up with canopies covering them.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman in Petticoat Dancing with Partner]

Photograph of Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman wearing a dress with a knee-length skirt and fluffy petticoat is pointing her toe and dancing with a man wearing a light-colored shirt and bandanna neck-tie. Other couples are visible dancing onstage.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Dancers From Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers]

Photograph of Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman wearing a dress with a knee-length skirt and fluffy petticoat is dancing with a man wearing a light-colored shirt, light-colored pants, boots, and a western belt. Other couples are visible dancing onstage behind them.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers]

Photograph of Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each dancer has a partner of the opposite sex. The women are wearing dresses with knee-length, fluffy skirts. The men are wearing light-colored shirts, pants, and western belt buckles.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jim Fox and Charles Davis Playing Music at Frontier Fort]

Photograph of Jim Fox and Charles Davis playing music on the porch of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Fox is sitting in a rocking chair on the left, wearing western wear and playing a banjo. Davis is sitting on the right playing a wind instrument.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman Performing Middle Eastern Dance]

Photograph of a woman in a belly dancing outfit performing a middle eastern dance before an audience at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is waving around a sheer cloth as she dances. Behind her offstage, a large crowd has filled the amphitheater.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homero Torres Burning Thorns Off Prickly Pear Cactus]

Photograph of Homero Torres using a kerosene-powered prickly pear burner at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and plaid shirt, he is burning the thorns off of the cactus so they can be used as cattle feed during a drought. The prickly pears are on the right, up against a chain-link fence while Torres stands on the left holding the burner that extends a couple feet out in front of him.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homero Torres with Pile of Prickly Pear Cactus]

Photograph of Homero Torres with a kerosene-powered prickly pear burner at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and plaid shirt, he is standing next to the burner which is used to burn the thorns off of the cactus so they can be used as cattle feed during a drought. A pile of prickly pears is on the right while Torres is on the left.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Indian Man Chanting and Playing a Drum]

Photograph of Jack Batisse performing Alabama-Coushatta Indian chants as he plays a drum at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an elaborate headdress, he is sitting at a large Indian drum and singing into a microphone.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hank Harrison Playing Violin with Tennessee Valley Authority]

Photograph of Hank Harrison playing violin with the Tennessee Valley Authority at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. To the right of him is a guitar player and a banjo player.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gilmer Yamboree Representatives]

Photograph of Gilmer Yamboree representatives at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Daisy Potter, the Possum Queen, is in the center wearing a long dress with the image of a possum sewn on the skirt. She is holding a parasol and has a wooden possum on a leash. On either side of her are two men wearing overalls and patterned shirts.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Polynesian Dancers Performing]

Photograph of Pau's Keolaomaui Polynesian Show at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two women wearing grass skirts and elaborate fan-shaped headdresses are dancing and waving grass pom-poms.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ukrainian Dancers Performing]

Photograph of Ukrainian dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a couple is dancing together, skipping around each other in a counter-clockwise fashion. In the background, other couples dancing on the stage are visible. The women are wearing knee-high boots, knee-length skirts, peasant shirts, and floral wreath headbands with long flowing ribbons. The men are wearing shiny billowing pants tucked into their knee-high boots with fitted white shirts.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ukrainian Dancers Performing Onstage]

Photograph of Ukrainian dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The couples are lined up one in front of the other, the women on the left side and the men on the right. The women are wearing knee-high boots, knee-length skirts, peasant shirts, and floral wreath headbands. The men are wearing shiny billowing pants tucked into their knee-high boots with fitted white shirts.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History