Photograph of Dorceal Duckens directing the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing light blue pants and a light blue t-shirt, he is on the left, leading the singers who are behind microphones on the right. They are all women, wearing skirts and the Duckens Family t-shirt.

Photograph of the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all wearing the same light blue Duckens family t-shirt as they stand in a row singing into microphones.

Photograph of stage 5 and Bowie Street as seen from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures Building at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a crowd of spectators are seated under a canopy watching dancers performing on the stage. In the middle ground is a street with cars parked all along the median. In the background, a highway interchange is visible.

Photograph of stage 7 and the "Back Forty" as seen from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures Building at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the right a canopy is covering the area where people are walking. The area on the left is covered with trees.

Photograph of Emilie Bethke demonstrating how to make pickles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a pioneer dress and a bonnet, she is sitting on the left side of a bench slicing something with a small knife. In the middle of the bench are two bowls: one next to her and one next to a boy on the right who is slicing up cucumbers into it.

Photograph of Emma Wuensche crocheting in the Texas Wendish Heritage Society Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing glasses, and a matching bonnet and shawl over a white blouse and a skirt. She is holding a wooden frame on which she is weaving yarn in and out. The table in front of her contains an assortment of circular crocheted pieces.

Photograph of some female members of the Lijuaco Bayanihan Dance Ensemble, from Laredo, Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are wearing white dresses with floral cloth tied around their waist and straw cowboy hats with pink ribbons tied around the band.

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.

Photograph of four boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy in front, holding two red balls, is preparing to toss them on the grass in front of him. They are standing in an area marked off by square hay bales.

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.

Photograph of children jumping off a large tree trunk in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The trunk is laid on its side next to a bed of hay into which a girl is jumping. Other children are standing on the trunk.

Photograph of a girl petting a goat at the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The goat is on the left standing on a small platform while the girl is on the right, next to its feeding bucket.

Photograph of a group of people gathered under the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures at the opening ceremonies of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Some girls on the right are holding bunches of yellow balloons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photograph of a woman in a kimono demonstrating Japanese brush lettering at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is sitting on the left, behind the booth, while two festival visitors are standing on the right watching her.

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.

Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing at the Cajun stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Surrounded by spectators, they are dancing on a sidewalk in front of a small stage where a band is playing. In the left foreground, a boy wearing a red t-shirt and gym shorts is looking off to the left.

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.

Photograph of Johnny T. Neal, Jr. using twister to make horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a collared shirt, and jeans, he is holding one end of the rope while a young man twists the horsehair in a machine with a manual crank.

Photograph of Juan Martinez demonstrating how to thatch a roof at the opening ceremonies of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and tan plaid shirt, he is laying out plant stalks on a table. A little boy is standing on the right.

Photograph of the Lebanese Folk Dancers from San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women wearing long red and green dresses are dancing with tambourines onstage in front of a large Lebanese flag.