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A Proposed Study Of The Archeology And History Of The Otarre Development Company Property, Albert C. Goodyear

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

An Archeological Survey Of The Proposed East Cooper And Berkeley Railroad, Berkeley County, South Carolina, Randolph J. Widmer

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

The Okehocking: A Remnant Band Of Delaware Indians, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

I Love Ta Plow: The Role Of Traditional Farm Women In Peytonsburg, Kentucky, Linda White

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study is a development of the work roles of traditional farm women in Peytonsburg, Kentucky. Peytonsburg is a relatively isolated area along the western border of the Appalachians. Traditional processes such as broom-making, chair-making, quilting, spinning and traditional farming are still practiced there.

Taped interviews were conducted with seven women ranging from sixty-five to eighty-eight years old. The women were questioned concerning their house and field cores as well as their philosophies and attitudes toward their life styles. It was revealed in this study that the traditional farm women of this area work throughout the year to keep the …

The Use Of Architectural Drawing In The Documentation Of Log Folk Housing, Ira Kohn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In order to remedy the shortcomings of past log structure documentation efforts, six proficiencies were established as necessary for the folklorist: (1) knowledge of, and use of, aerial photographs and topographic maps, (2) familiarity with usage of the compass, steel measuring tape and alidade, (3) accuracy in building measurement techniques, (4) the ability to competently compile a field notebook using standardized architectural notation, (5) operation of the camera as a recording tool, and (6) the production of measured drawings using the techniques specified by the Historic American Buildings Survey. The Rigsby House, a log structure in Warren County, Kentucky, served …

The Paper Repertoire Of The Students In One Elementary School, Ruby Rufty

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This collection project is concerned with traditional paper objects made by students in fifteen classes in one elementary school in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chapter I describes the school and classroom environments and the procedures followed during the collection project. Chapter II differentiates between the play and ornamental items collected, describes the different items and their variants made by the students, and attempts to show what persons (relatives, teachers, other children) or other factors (mass media, the students' environment) affected the paper items made by students. Chapter III statistically evaluates the collected paper items according to the sex, race, and grade …

Excavations At Landsford Canal (38la5) And Rocky Mount Lock-Keeper's House (38cs63), Richard F. Carrillo

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Comment On Ceramics And Buttons From A Burial In The Cunningham Field Mound D On St. Catherine's Island, Georgia, Stanley South

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Archaeology On State Highway 16: The Crystal Rivers Site, John Esten Keller

Documents from the Texas State Department of Highways-Archive

The Crystal Rivers Site (41 BX 195) was recorded during a survey of State Highway 16 in May 1973. The site consists of an extensive occupation area with its prominent feature being a large, but scattered, burned rock midden. The site is located on the east bank of a western tributary of Government Canyon Creek approximately two miles southeast of the small community of San Geronimo in Bexar County. Due to the extensive accumulation of cultural material within the right-of-way of the proposed widening of State Highway 16, further investigation was recommended. Thoughout July of 1973, under Antiquities Permit No. …

Archaeology On State Highway 16: No-Name Creek Site: A Terrace Site Of The Middle And Late Archaic Period In Gillespie County, Texas, Joe T. Denton

Documents from the Texas State Department of Highways-Archive

No-Name Creek is a multicomponent site in a nonstratified context north of the town of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, Texas. This site, where excavated, is purely Archaic and is of primary importance due to the unique artifact assemblage. The point types extant at the site suggest an evolution of one type to another.

The Reliability Of Selected Weather Beliefs, Judith Sadewasser

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Thirty Kentucky weather beliefs--twenty of which were considered to be scientifically valid while ten were not--were annotated, documented and discussed. It was shown that the weather beliefs which had scientific explanations were usually concerned with forecasts associated with rain and that most often they were based on observable atmospheric conditions. It was further shown that those beliefs which were not considered scientifically valid usually had an element of truth but were not considered plausible for one of the following reasons. First, there was evidence that some of these weather beliefs had been garbled during the process of oral transmission. Second, …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, Folk Festival Supplement, Gail Eaby Hartmann, Lester Breininger, Lauren B. Augstadt, Robert S. Blanchard, Kenneth P. Lambert, Barbara K. Foust, Richard Shaner, William T. Parsons, Richard C. Gougler, Lynn David Pleet, Ada Robacker, Earl F. Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Quilts, Quilts, Quilts
• America's Heritage is Endowed with Contributions of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Hospitality Tent: "H" is for Help - That's What it's all About
• Pottery: A Folk Art Expressing the Most in Simplest Terms
• "It Never Rains on our Parade" - On the Fourth of July
• Vegetable Dyeing at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Foods: The Original Touch of the Dutch
• Ursinus College Studies at the Festival
• Behind the Scenes of "We Like Our Country, But We Love Our God"
• Reverse …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 4, Gerald L. Pocius, Bernard L. Herman, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Wendy Leeds, Monroe H. Fabian

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Veterinary Folk Medicine in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
• Folk Medical Recipes in Nineteenth-Century American Farm Journals
• A Pictorial Essay on Pennsylvania's Anthracite Mining Heritage
• Fraktur: An Annotated Bibliography
• An Immigrant's Inventory
• Broadsides and Printed Ephemera: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 44

An Archeological Survey Of The Proposed Sewerage System Improvements, Ridgeway, South Carolina, Randolph J. Widmer

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Contributions To Tualatin Ethnography: Subsistence And Ethnobiology, Henry B. Zenk

Dissertations and Theses

There is a considerable amount of unpublished source material on Kalapuyan ethnography. This consists primarily of manuscript field notes from three linguistically trained scholars: Albert S. Gatschet, who collected Kalapuyan linguistic and ethnographic data during a visit to Grand Ronde Reservation in 1877, Leo J. Frachtenberg, who worked with a number of Kalapuyan informants from 1913 to 1915, and Melville Jacobs, who worked with the last surviving speakers of Kalapuyan languages during a number of sessions between 1928 and 1936. Data from these three authorities, plus other available data, reveal many details about aboriginal Kalapuyan life ("aboriginal" here referring to …

An Archeological Survey Of A Fall Line Creek: Crane Creek Project, Richland County, South Carolina, Leland G. Ferguson

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Underwater Archeological Survey Of Proposed Cooper River Dredge Area Adjacent To The Amoco Facilities, Alan B. Albright

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Social And Economic Constraints On Child Life Among The !Kung, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The usual approach in studies of socialization is to look at the interaction among cultural values, social structure, and child-training practices. The approach used here evolved during my two years in the field living with the !Kung, when it became clear to me that the major constraints on child life derived from the nature of adult work and from the organization of people in space. By the "nature of adult work" I refer to the hunting and gathering subsistence economy, to the rhythm of work routines, and to the accommodation to scarce and unevenly distributed water sources. By "organization of …

If I'D Been Polish, I Guess I'D Be Playing Polkas: An Examination Of The Social Contexts Of Traditional Irish Music In Rochester, New York, George Stoner

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Anthropologists, folklorists and popular writers have, in general, neglected to describe. the social contexts in which traditional Irish music is played. Although the dance was probably the most important context for traditional Irish music in Rochester, as elsewhere in the United States and Ireland, interest among Irish-born Americans and Irish- Americans in traditional dancing has waned. At present, the most important social contexts for Irish music in Rochester are the session, the Feis, and various representational contexts. The session is by far the most important, and has developed as interest in the dance has declined. Unlike the dance, it is …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4, Wku Folk Studies Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

An Archeological Survey Of The Columbia Metropolitan Airport Proposed Parking Facilities, Robert L. Stephenson

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Mary's River Kalapuyan: A Descriptive Phonology, Yvonne P. Hajda

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis is an attempt to apply procedures of descriptive linguistic analysis to a body of material phonetically transcribed by Leo J. Frachtenberg in the Mary's River dialect of the central Kalapuyan language. In 1913-14 Frachtenberg collected thirteen volumes of myth texts in Mary's River, twelve from William Hartless and one from Grace Wheeler; in addition, there were notes to the texts, three volumes of grammatical notes, and some ethnographic material. The phonetic transcription was carried out in the pre- phonemic tradition of recording everything the speaker said as accurately as possible. There was no attempt to elicit forms in …

Religion, Kinship, And Labor In Luapala: Prosperity And Economic Stagnation Of Lake And River Fishing Communities, Karla Olga Poewe

Anthropology ETDs

In this dissertation I trace the interrelation­ships among economic activities, kin ties, and religious activities of a people who have some limited access to modern technology and uneven potential for economic de­velopment. I therefore analyze the material, ideological, and institutional means which these people employ in order to raise their standard of living. While I take environmental factors into account, I describe Luapulan conditions primarily in terms of internal dynamics based on cumulative, reciprocal, or conflicting action between kin and religious groups, and between alternative (matrilineal versus Protestant) ideologies about the distribution of the products of labor.

I found that …

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 10, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Oral Folk History Surrounding The Life Of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The oral folk history of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson is unique in that Henderson himself has been a contributing factor in keeping the tales of his moonshining experiences in the oral traditions of distinct areas of Kentucky, especially Cumberland County. Interviewing Henderson and apprehended and non-apprehended moonshiners allowed speculation into the concept that Henderson was indeed a folk hero. Using Dixon Wector's requirements for heroes, the hero performing unselfish service, acquiring a nickname, obtaining sympathy for handicaps, struggles, and failures, and reaching hero status after death, and providing examples of Henderson's encounters with moonshiners, verifies Henderson's hero status, except …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 3, Don Yoder, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Mac E. Barrick, A. Russell Slagle, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, William T. Parsons

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Germans and the American Revolution
• The Blooming Grove Colony
• The Salebill
• The Schlegel Family and the Rosicrucian Movement
• A Log Settler's Fort/Home
• Pennsylvania Dutch Studies at Ursinus College, 1976
• The Country Sale: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 43

Archeological Examination Of A Transect Through The Middle Savannah River Valley: The Bobby Jones Expressway, Richmond County, Georgia, Leland G. Ferguson, Randolph J. Widmer

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Archeological Survey Of A Proposed Record Fire Range, Fort Jackson Military Reservation, Richland County, South Carolina, Randolph J. Widmer

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

An Archeological Survey And Assessment Of Cultural Resources Of The Chicago Bridge And Iron Company's Victoria Bluff Facility, Beaufort County, South Carolina, Randolph J. Widmer

Research Manuscript Series

An archeological survey of a 140 acre tract of land on the Colleton River, Beaufort County, South Carolina, scheduled for industrial development by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, was conducted by the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology on April 14-17, 1976. Surface investigation and subsurface sampling were used to locate eleven archeological sites on, or very near, the impact zone, two of which (38BUl05 and 38BUl06) had been recorded in a previous survey in 1973. One site (38BU125) is of the historic period but appears to have been almost totally destroyed by bank erosion and its remains are probably …

Archeological Research In The S.C. Electric And Gas Company's Proposed Ancillary Transmission Line Corridor For The City Of Cayce, Lexington County, South Carolina: An Evaluation Of Prehistoric Cultural Resources 38lx104 And 38lx112, Neal W. Ackerly

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.