Signs On The Move: Basque American Arbor Glyphs (UNR)
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: On the Move: Migration and Immigration Today / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 02
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0702_OTM_OTM_0002.wav
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Cathy Kerst (presenter); Inaki Arrieta (participant) Tree carvings were one of the first cultural expressions by Basque sheepherders in the American West. Isolated for months, these men used writing on trees as a way to communicate their loneliness, melancholy, and humor. They wrote their names, hometown names, and hopes; they drew animals, planes, and women. Visitors will join the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, in trying to decipher some of these arbor glyphs and in learning about this unique form of cultural expression.