Photograph of entrance gate 4 at the Texas Folklife Festival. People are lined up waiting to get into the festival. Festival staff are taking tickets at the turnstiles. A poster advertising the 1978 festival is hanging on the fence.

Photograph of Voices of the Mainland performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The group is five African-American men: one drummer and four singers, one of which is also playing guitar. Three singers are standing in a row behind microphone stands and one is out in front, holding the microphone in his hand. The drummer is in the back, next to a piano.

Photograph of an Ameleb Club Lebanese dancer dancing with a tambourine at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has shoulder-length brown curly hair and is wearing a violet belly dancing outfit as she holds the tambourine out in front of her. Other Ameleb Club dancers are visible in the background.

Photograph of artist Jim Thomas with his "Goat Lady" sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting to the left of it, working on an area at the bottom of her dress. The sculpture appears to be made of wax and is about two feet tall. It is fixed to a small square wooden table. Thomas is wearing a white t-shirt and jeans.

Photograph of a boy drilling a hole in a log as part of the log house construction at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is using a manual drill that looks like a large corkscrew with wooden handles at the top. With a good amount of effort, he is attempting to rotate the handles and drive the corkscrew into the log to carve out a hole. He has blonde hair and is wearing a navy striped t-shirt and jeans.

Photograph of Nadine Mery, a young Ameleb Club Lebanese dancer, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has long dark hair and is wearing a red belly dancing outfit as she dances onstage, moving her hips and waving her arms and hands around in a fluid motion. Spectators are watching from beside the stage, including some men in uniform.

Photograph of a young girl making a necklace out of raw pasta in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the table holding up a string of colorful rigatoni noodles. She is wearing a completed noodle necklace, a white tank top with red, blue, and yellow trim and matching shorts. Behind her, other children are seated at the table making necklaces; a few woman are standing around them.

Photograph of a person climbing a Belgian Mast, which is a greased pole, at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are nearing the top of the wooden pole where a bell is tied. A crowd of festival visitors are gathered around to watch. In the background a sign saying, "Belgian" is hanging on the outside of a booth that is colored red, yellow and black.

Photograph of Ruffin Hill, from Austin, operating a spinning wheel at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wheel is in the foreground and Hill is sitting at a chair on the other side of it, in the middle ground. She is pulling a string of spun fiber out and is showing it to a little girl. Another little girl is on the right, holding a piece of thread.

Photograph of artist Charles Davis working on a woodcarving at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is leaning over a long panel of wood from which he is carving a landscape scene. The panel is lying on top of a work bench and is angled at forty five degrees. Davis is wearing a dark-colored cowboy hat, a light blue shirt, and jeans.

Photograph of Chester Knight, from Conroe, demonstrating a treadle lathe at the Texas Folklife Festival. The piece of wood to be carved is fixed upon a rotating axle, powered by a foot pedal. Knight is sitting at the lathe, holding a carving tool against the rotating piece to shape it. He has gray hair, dark eyebrows and glasses. He is wearing a blue shirt and brown plaid pants. Some festival visitors have gathered around to watch him work.

Photograph of two women quilting at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are seated at a table on which a quilt is spread out. The woman on the right is elderly and is wearing a thimble on her middle finger and pushing a needle through one square on the quilt. The woman on the left is pulling a thread taut. A pair of scissors, a spool of thread, and a pair of sunglasses are laying on top of the quilt.

Photograph of James Ander caning a chair at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing blue coveralls and placing the woven material on the seat of the wooden chair. Some festival visitors are watching in the background.

Photograph of Hazel Bowen giving wagon rides at the Texas Folklife Festival. Wearing a cowboy hat, she is driving a green wagon being pulled by two horses. A young boy is sitting in the front next to her. A small group of children and adults are riding in the back. The horses are walking along a dirt pathway next to which two young girls are standing.

Photograph of M. W. Massey giving wagon rides at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is driving a green wagon being pulled by two horses. A group of children are sitting in the back of the wagon. Massey wears a cowboy hat.

Photograph of two of the Ukrainian Folk Dancers of Houston dancing together at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man and woman are opposite each other, holding their partner at the waist with one arm and spinning around together with their outside arm up in the air. The man is wearing a white shirt, red sash, loose blue pants, and black boots. The woman is wearing a white blouse with patterned sleeves under a long blue vest, a red and gray checkered skirt, red knee-high boots, and a floral wreathe in her hair. Long colorful ribbons are flowing from the wreath. Audience members are visible offstage in the background.

Photograph of a woman of the Ukrainian Folk Dancers of Houston at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is visible from the chest up, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a colorful floral wreath on her head, from which many long colorful ribbons are flowing. The top part of her outfit is red, white, blue, and green, and she is wearing several beaded necklaces.

Photograph of Kent Sutherland playing the bagpipes for the Alamo City Highlanders at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a beige military shirt and a black beret with a red pom pom. His bagpipes are red plaid on the bag with dark-colored pipes.

Photograph of a Filipino folk dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a pink dress with sequins and pearls around the neckline, gold earrings, and a metallic gold headband. She is holding two fans with pink feathers.

Photograph of Ed J. Kadlecek, Jr. and children, from New Braunfels, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Ed is on the right playing an accordion. His three children, two girls and one boy all wearing gray lederhosen, are on the left sharing a microphone as they sing.

Photograph of Hazel Bowen, wagon mistress from Antelope, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a cream-colored cowboy hat with a collection of pins on the crown. Her face contains many wrinkles. She has blue-green eyes and is pursing her lips slightly as she looks off to the left.

Photograph of a gospel group performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are being directed by a man in a blue plaid suit standing at the front of the stage. Behind him an audience is visible, seated on the grass. A small group of nicely-dressed men and women make up the gospel group; they are visible onstage from behind. An electric piano is also onstage in the left foreground.

Photograph of musician Zaragoza Guajardo, fiddle player with the Devine Music Makers, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing with his arm propped against the side of a log cabin where a cow skull is hanging. He is wearing a white shirt and gold-rimmed glasses. He has a receding gray hairline and dark eyebrows.

Photograph of Wayne Ross, of the Backwoods Volunteers Bluegrass Band, playing the banjo at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a light blue, tan, and white-striped polo shirt, and white pants. Standing in front of the microphone he is finger picking his banjo. He is a younger man, with dark brown hair and blue eyes.