Photograph of quilters from Voca, Texas at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of six women are sitting around a quilt that is stretched out between two wood planks. The quilt is unfinished and each woman is working on a different part of it. Behind them in the background, two women are holding up a finished quilt with a large eight-point star in the center. The star is made up of many small orange, yellow, and brown diamond shapes. The quilt has a brown border.

Photograph of O.T. Baker speaking to a female festival visitor while sitting behind the Smokehouse booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Baker is wearing a blue shirt and a tan cowboy hat, and is sitting at the corner of the booth on the right side of the photograph. He is speaking to a woman outside the booth on the left. She is grabbing a small wicker basket and looking inside of it. In the left foreground some small squash are on the booth's counter and some are in a wicker basket. In the background other festival visitors and other booths are visible.

Photograph of the Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, a couple is dancing. The woman is on the right, wearing a knee-length blue skirt with a thick red petticoat. Her blouse has a red bandana pattern. The man is on the left wearing a red shirt with the same bandana pattern and jeans. In the background other couples from the group are visible.

Photograph of the Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, a couple is dancing. The woman is on the right, wearing a knee-length blue skirt with a thick red petticoat. Her blouse has a red bandana pattern. The man is on the left wearing a red shirt with the same bandana pattern and jeans. Their right hands are joined and they are kicking back their right foot. In the background other couples from the group are visible.

Photograph of Ardy Feike preparing sausage in the smokehouse booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Working atop a wooden table, he has packed ground meat into a metal chamber and is lowering a press to squeeze the meat out into casing to form sausages. To the left of him, prepared sausages are visible. On the right is a tray of ground meat, ready to be stuffed into sausages.

Photograph of Arnold Griffin with antique tools at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing behind a booth that has several axes and other woodcutting tools displayed on the counter. He is wearing a leather vest, a leather cowboy hat, a western shirt, khaki pants and black-rimmed glasses. He is holding a large axe that has a blade much longer than its head. The booth's counter curves back behind him and is covered with several other antique tools.

Photograph of blacksmith Basil Garcia at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is in the foreground wearing jeans, suspenders, a navy t-shirt, and a black cap. He is standing behind an anvil, hammering a hot piece of metal over it. On the stand with the anvil is a variety of blacksmithing tools: different hammers, and tools for holding and shaping the metal. Behind Garcia to the right is the forge, which has flames emanating from it. Standing behind the forge is a woman wearing a blue shirt and a confederate flag bandana on her head.

Photograph of E. P. Pak at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing traditional clothing including a straw hat with a wide brim and a tall crown that is flat on top. He is standing in front of the Korean food booth, holding a sword in a scabbard and posing with a woman working behind the booth. She is wearing a white kimono and holding a red floral fan. Other workers are visible behind the booth. Bamboo shades are hanging in the background.

Photograph of Rocky Tays holding a German sausage he stuffed at the Texas Folklife Festival. Standing near the center of the photograph behind a wooden table, he is dressed in traditional German clothing with a non-traditional patterned vest and a red and white striped apron. On the table is a sausage stuffer, a bowl of ground meat, and several jars of spices. On the left, a man is standing in front of the table pointing to the sausage and smiling.

Photograph of frontier soldier reenactors at the Texas Folklife Festival. One officer is standing on the right across from two soldiers on the left. They are wearing black coats, black hats with yellow cords, gray pants and black boots. The officer has yellow stripes on the sleeve of his coat. They are all holding their rifles in front of them with their left hand on tip and right hand on bottom, near the trigger area. Behind them on the right, a boy is standing alone, watching them.

Photograph of a posada at the Texas Folklife Festival. A posada is a ceremonial procession representing the search of Mary and Joseph for lodging just before the birth of Christ. A crowd of people are walking together down a pathway led by a police officer. Some of the people are dressed in white robes and wearing rosaries. Others are dressed in biblical-era clothing. Near the front two girls are carrying dome-shaped frames. Each frame is about the size of a small umbrella and is attached to the end of a long stick. Several colorful ribbons are hanging down from the rim. A few visitors are visible standing on the far side of the procession, watching as it passes.

Photograph of a posada at the Texas Folklife Festival. A posada is a ceremonial procession representing the search of Mary and Joseph for lodging just before the birth of Christ. The procession has stopped in front of a facade made to look like a mission. A sign on it reads, "Concepcion Mission founded in 1731." The people in the posada are dressed in different costumes: some are dressed in biblical-era clothing, some are dressed as wise men, and one man at the front is wearing a sombrero. Large paper flowers and decorations are hanging on the facade and in the adjacent tree. One person in the crowd is holding up a dome-shaped frame covered in long colorful ribbons and attached to the end of a pole.

Photograph of Czech accordionist Joseph Kaspar at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting with his red accordion in front of two microphones. He is an elderly man, wearing a brown fedora, white shirt with floral trim, and navy pants. He has blue eyes and is wearing glasses.

Photograph of an American Indian woman making Alabama-Coushatta Fry Bread at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in front of an outdoor stove placing pieces of rolled-out dough into a cast iron frying pan full of oil. To the left on a small table is an industrial-sized silver kitchen bowl filled with finished fry breads, ready to be served. The woman is wearing a red shirt with rainbow zig-zag stripes on the sleeves.

Photograph of the Calvary Boys Gospel Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four men, all dressed alike in khaki pants, white shirts, and red ties, are performing onstage. All of them are holding microphones and singing except the second man from the right who is playing a red bass guitar and singing into a microphone held by a stand. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.

Photograph of Richard Rast, of the Texas Fur Bearers, standing next to hanging animal pelts at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing near the center of the photograph, wearing overalls, a blue shirt, and a straw cowboy hat. He has a dark beard with some gray around his chin. To the right of him, several animal pelts are hanging from a rope strung across the booth. Some identification tags are visible, including one that says "red fox."

Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and looking at one another. The woman on the left is wearing a pink dress. The woman in the middle is wearing a yellow blouse and navy blue skirt and the woman on the right is wearing a black dress with a red belt and red undershirt. Two guitarists are partially visible behind the singers.

Photograph of one of the Norman Sisters playing piano at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the left side of the photograph facing the piano which is in the center of the photograph. A man in a red shirt is on the right, playing a keyboard and looking at the camera.

Photograph of the Klompen Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Couples of dancers holding each other at the waist are dancing side by side but facing opposite directions. The women are wearing peasant-style dresses with skirts, aprons and bonnets. The men are wearing blue shirts, dark pants, red bandanas around their necks and black caps. All the dancers are wearing wooden clogs.

Photograph of Jean Schnitz playing autoharp at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in the foreground in front of two microphones, singing into one and playing into the other. She strums with one hand and presses chord buttons with the other. In the middle ground, a guitar is laying on stage and a man is sitting on a square hay bale. In the background, crowds of festival visitors are walking around.

Photograph of a posada at the Texas Folklife Festival. A posada is a ceremonial procession representing the search of Mary and Joseph for lodging just before the birth of Christ. A crowd of people are walking together down a pathway from the left to the right. A man in the foreground is dressed in biblical-era clothing. Walking on the other side of him is a woman also dressed in biblical clothing. The couple appears to be Mary and Joseph. Walking in front of the man is a girl carrying a pole with several colorful ribbons attached to a dome-shaped frame at the top of it. Several other people in a variety of costumes and clothing are also walking in the procession.

Photograph of two women making tortillas in the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are standing next to a flat grill with tortillas on it. They are both wearing white blouses and pink and white aprons as they pat out the next tortillas to be grilled. In the left foreground is a pole decorated with artificial flowers. In the background, the rest of the Mexican area is visible; fiesta streamers are strung between trees.

Photograph of the front of the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. It is modeled to look like Mission Espada. The facade is two-dimensional, and is painted to look like stone. Figures of a friar and a Native American are also painted on the facade. Above the center doorway, which is actually being used as a serving window, are three archways where artificial bells are hanging. On the far left and right of the structure are two additional serving windows. Colorful streamers are strung from the highest archway in the center, down the sides of the booth. The Institute of Texan Cultures building is visible in the background.

Photograph of Chris Lay and Norma Wiemers, members of the United Fiddlers Association, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Lay is on the left playing fiddle and Wiemers is in the middle playing a guitar. Sitting on the right, another man is playing a guitar. Lay and Wiemers are looking at each other as they play. They are both wearing cowboy hats, white shirts, and dark pants. In the background some square hay bales and a barn door is visible.