Crafts
odd: label: Introduction
content: The craft presentations at the 1968 Festival featured more than 60 persons demonstrating basket-making, woodworking, wood carving, pottery, blacksmithing and tinsmithing, doll-making, and foodways. A special focus was on textile traditions, with large contingents demonstrating diverse approaches to processing cotton and wool, needlework, and quilt-making.
label: Participants
content: Maurice Alexander, Lummi, totem poles, Washington

Elizabeth Bass, 1906-1991, wool carder, Missouri

Kay Bates, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana

Herman Benton, 1914-1994, grain scoop maker, New York

Freddy Bump, 1894-1977, chair maker, Arkansas

Dallas Bump, 1918-2016, chair maker, Arkansas

Charlene Cartee, 1908-1985, butter churning, sassafras candy making, Kentucky

Russell Cartee, 1901-1986, rived shingle maker, Kentucky

Gladys LeBlanc Clark, 1918-2011, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana

Cornelison family, Appalachian potters, Kentucky

Dinkie Daspit, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Lafayette, Louisiana

Susan Denson, Choctaw, split-cane basket maker, Mississippi

Abe Dewey, corn shuck seat maker, Missouri

Letha Dickerson, gourd-head doll maker, Kentucky

Isaac Doss, blacksmith, Arkansas

Freedom Quilting Bee, quilters, Alabama

Tillie Galbadon, 1912-1979, Spanish-American needlework, New Mexico

Dolly Greer, quilter, North Carolina

Taft Greer, 1908-1986, wool weaver, Tennessee

Lucille Guitroz, cotton weaver, spinner (treadle wheel) and carder, Louisiana

Thelma Hall, 1908-1996, nut head and woodenhead doll maker, Arkansas

Alma Harris, 1919-1993, poppets (dolls) maker, Hindsville, Arkansas

Roy Harris, 1920-, wooden figures, Arkansas

Johnie Head, corncob, corn shuck doll maker, Springdale, Arkansas

Ethel Hogsed, 1920-1991, Brasstown carvers, wooden animals, North Carolina

Francis James, 1909-1973, Lummi, wool spinner (electric wheel), Marietta, Washington

Doris John, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico

Edith Jones, Lummi, cedar-bark basket maker, Washington

Edwin L. Kaye, Hopi kachina dolls, New Mexico

Norman Kennedy, 1934-, wool milling, spinning and weaving, Virginia

Wally Kiser, sorghum production, Kentucky

Mrs. Wally Kiser, sorghum production, Kentucky

George Lopez, 1900-1993,  -- santos --  carver, New Mexico

Edsel Martin, 1927-1999, dulcimers, North Carolina

Jack Matthews, sheep shearer, Maryland

Angus McLeod and group, wool milling, Massachusetts

Sue McClure, Brasstown carvers, wooden animals, North Carolina

Mrs. Charles Morlan, apple face doll maker, Arkansas

Teresita Naranjo, 1919-1999, Santa Clara Pueblo potter, New Mexico

Elizabeth Notah, 1928-2003, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico

Conchita Quintana, 1941-1994, tinsmith, New Mexico

Mallie Ritchie, corn shuck doll maker, Kentucky 

Donald Robinson, split-oak basket maker, Louisiana

Thonius Robinson, split-oak basket maker, Louisiana

Grace Owle Shelton, 1905-1970, Cherokee, cloth doll maker, North Carolina

Kitty Singleton, 1904-1989, corn shuck doll maker, Kentucky

Edgar Tolson, 1904-1984, wooden figures, Kentucky

Elisa Trivett, wool spinner (treadle wheel) North Carolina

Margie Waldron, wool spinner (walking wheel), Missouri

Joe Washington and family, Lummi, net making and setting, Washington

Florence Watson, Navajo, wool weaver, spinner, carder, New Mexico

Ora Watson, 1909-2004, quilter, North Carolina

Rosa Lee Watson, quilter, Deep Gap, North Carolina

Willard Watson, 1905-1994, toys, Deep Gap, North Carolina

Mrs. Hobart Whitson, quilter, Burnsville, North Carolina

Connard Wolfe, 1933-, stone and wood carvings, West Virginia
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1968 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1968, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials