Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all sitting in front of a log cabin wall where a collection of guitars are hanging. Sitting on the left is a man playing electric violin. In the middle, a man is playing acoustic guitar, and on the right is an older man playing electric guitar. In the foreground, the back of a tube amp is visible.

Photograph of two members of T.E.A.C.H. Acting Company performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman wearing an apron is sitting on the left while a young man sitting to her right is pretending to drive. He has long hair and is wearing a jean jacket.

Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.

Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.

Photograph of Vivian Thibodeaux and Betty Caswell in the Cajun food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Thibodeaux is standing on the left, ladling stew out of a large metal pot, while Caswell watches.

Photograph of a young man slicing Soul Sausage to be served with crackers in the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has an afro and is wearing a blue t-shirt and bell bottom jeans.

Photograph of a dark-haired Hungarian man with his acoustic bass in the Hungarian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a black vest with no shirt, a red and yellow sash tied around his waist, black pants, and boots. His head is wrapped with a bandanna and he has a mustache.

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.