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A Pilot Study Of Wichita Indian Archeology And Ethnohistory, Robert E. Bell, Edward B. Jelks, W., W. Newcombe

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In 1965 several anthropologists drew up plans for a one-year pilot study of the archeology and ethnohistory of the Wichita Indian tribes. After financial support had been generously provided by the National Science Foundation, the proposed research was carried out. This is a report on the results of that study.

The pilot study was designed to: a) obtain a body of field data from the components of the Spanish Fort sites, the largest and best=documented of the historic Wichita sites in the Red River area; b) make test excavations at several other sites in order that a problem=oriented program of …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Arthur J. Lawton, Clarence Kulp Jr., Carter W. Craigie, Mabel Fritch, Edna Eby Heller, Sara Grey, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Ancient of Days - Plus Tax!
• Living History
• The Goschenhoppen Historians
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• The Tinsmith of Kutztown
• The Chaff Bag and its Preparation
• Traditional Favorites Go Modern
• Children's Games Among Lancaster County Mennonites
• Notes and Documents: Early American Humor in Philadelphia Jokebooks
• Numskull Tales in Cumberland County
• Contributors to this Issue
• Folklife Studies and American History
• Powwowing: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #4

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 3, Lewis Edgar Riegel, Nancy J. Mcfall, Ruth M. Home, Don Yoder, Jacob Bishop Crist, Susan R. Severs, Abraham R. Horne

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Reminiscences of a Boyhood in Reading, 1883-1890
• Preserving York's Architectural Heritage
• Jordan Museum of the Twenty
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: II
• Memoirs of a Lutheran Minister, 1850-1881
• Notes and Documents: Nicknames from a Mennonite Family
• The Crafts at Newport
• Anglicizing the Pennsylvania Dutch, 1966 and 1875
• Nicknames: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #3

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Amos Long Jr.

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Christmas - Back Along
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: I
• New Materials on 18th-Century Emigration from Wurttemberg
• More Tramp Tales
• Veterinary and Household Recipes from West Cocalico
• The Pennsylvania Sketchbooks of Charles Lesueur
• The Woodshed
• Notes and Documents: Articles on the Amish from the "Reformirte Kirchenzeitung" (1860)
• Prayers, Graces and Home Devotions: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #2

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 1, George Peterson Iii, William Hannan, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Berton E. Beck, Jacob G. Shively, Lester Breininger, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Indian Readers and Healers by Prayer
• Bayard Taylor's Portrait of Pennsylvania Quakerism
• Gypsy Stories from the Swatara Valley
• Stump-Pulling
• Occult Tales from Union County
• Beekeeping and Bee Lore in Pennsylvania
• New Materials on the 18th Century Emigration from the Speyer State Archives
• The Snake-Bitten Dutchman
• Notes and Documents: A Letter to Germany (1806) ; Midwestern Diary of Joel Vale Garretson (1863-1864)
• Questionnaire on Hominy

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 4, Constantine Kermes, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Glassie, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Tyrone Power

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Amish Album
• Look Back, Once!
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South: Part II
• Folk Festival Program
• Contributors to this Issue
• Festival Highlights
• Twenty Questions on Powwowing
• Moon-Signs in Cumberland County
• Reminiscences of "Des Dumm Fattel"
• Notes and Documents: Two Documents from the First World War
• The Dutch and Irish Colonies of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Frank Brown, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Marion Ball Wilson, Fritz Braun

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Stitching for Pretty
• New Light on "Mountain Mary"
• The Newspaper and Folklife Studies
• Pennsylvania Limekilns
• Mennonite Maids
• The Eighteenth-Century Emigration from the Palatinate: New Documentation

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Henry Glassie, Berton E. Beck, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Dutch Country Burls and Bowls
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South
• Tales of the Block House
• Official Religion Versus Folk Religion

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 1, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Amos Long Jr., Synnove Haughom, Don Yoder, John A. Burrison, Clement Valletta

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Year of the Rupjonjim
• Pennsylvania Summer-Houses and Summer-Kitchens
• Religious and Educational References in Lancaster County Wills
• Genealogy and Folk-Culture
• Pennsylvania German Folktales: An Annotated Bibliography
• Italian Immigrant Life in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1890-1915 Part II

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 4, Don Yoder, Alliene Dechant, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Amos Long Jr., Evelyn Benson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Kutztown and America
• Sixteen Years of the Folk Festival
• Like the One Grandma Had!
• Kutztown's Mennonites
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• The Ice-House in Pennsylvania
• The Conestoga Wagon
• Folklife Studies Bibliography 1964

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Berton E. Beck, William H. Kenney Iii, Clement Valletta, Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Buckwheat Music
• The "Domestic Encyclopaedia" of 1803-1804
• Taming the Land
• Jacob Taylor and His Almanacs
• Italian Immigrant Life in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1890-1915
• Uni Day's Herb Garden

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 2, Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Amos Long Jr., Donald Roan, Lewis Edgar Riegel, Jerrie Gressle

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Christmas Fraktur, Christmas Broadsides
• The Shape of Food That Was
• Bakeovens in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Deivels-Dreck (Asafoetida) Yesterday and Today
• Reminiscences of Centerport, 1876-1885
• Ohio School Children Study the Pennsylvania Dutch

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 1, Richard Shaner, Earl F. Robacker, Amos Long Jr., Berton E. Beck, Paul D. Brumbach, Phil R. Jack, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Oley Valley Basketmaker
• The Sheen of Copper
• Pennsylvania Corncribs
• Land-Clearing in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Funerals in My Childhood Days
• Folk Medicine from Western Pennsylvania
• Peddlers I Remember

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Alexander Marshall, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Susanna Brinton, Edna Eby Heller, George L. Moore, Phil R. Jack

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Stoneware: Stepchild of Early Pottery
• The Days of Auld Lang Syne
• Grout-Kootch, Coldframe, and Hotbed
• Memories of Three Spring Farm
• Folk Festival Program
• Saffron Cookery
• My Childhood Games
• Western Pennsylvania Epitaphs

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Leo H. Bixler, Edna Eby Heller, Amos Long Jr., Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Piece-Patch Artistry
• The Horse and Buggy Dutch
• Pine Tar and its Uses
• Much Ado About Cookies
• Folk Festival Program
• Outdoor Privies in the Dutch Country
• Distillation and Distilleries Among the Dutch
• The Folklife Studies Movement

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Robert C. Bucher, Amos Long Jr., Richard Shaner, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania Pewter and Pewterers
• Grain in the Attic
• Dryhouses in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• The Amish Barn Dance
• Pennsylvanians Called it Mush

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 1, Earl F. Robacker, George L. Moore, Russell S. Baver, Amos Long Jr., Edna Eby Heller, Florence Baver

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Paint-Decorated Furniture of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• My Mother's Kitchen
• "H" is for Hinkle
• An Album of Chester County Farmhouses
• Smokehouses in the Lebanon Valley
• Morning Glory Cake
• Five Years of Folk Festivaling

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 4, Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, Robert C. Bucher, Richard Shaner, Alma B. Meade

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania's Plain Garb
• Ai, Ai, Ai, and a Bottle of Whatever
• Eagle Date Boards
• The Continental Log House
• Waffles and Wafers
• Folk Festival Program
• Witch Tales from Adams County
• Fianna the Dunkard

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, J. William Frey, Vincent R. Tortora, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Alfred L. Shoemaker, John A. Hostetler, Laura Huyett, Andrew S. Berky, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Alan G. Keyser, Richard Shaner, Alliene Dechant

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Amish Barn Raisings
• Building a Pennsylvania Barn
• Water Witching
• Amish Family Life: A Sociologist's Analysis
• Straw Hat Making Among the Old Order Amish
• Bread and Apple-Butter Day
• Schnitz in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Dutch Country Scarecrows
• The Man Who Was Buried Standing Up
• Living Occult Practices in Dutch Pennsylvania
• Farewell to Ollie

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Township Weavers of Pennsylvania
• Amish Funerals
• The Bush-Meeting Dutch
• Steep Roofs and Red Tiles
• Carpet Rag Parties
• Fences in Rural Pennsylvania
• Folk Festival Program
• A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery County, Pa.
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Pennsylvania Folklife Pioneer
• The "Glingelsock"
• Sauerkraut in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Collectanea

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 1, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, George L. Moore, Edith Patterson, Nicholas Bervinchak, Russell S. Baver, Edna Eby Heller, Mary C. Kreider, E. Estyn Evans

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Tin: With Holes In
• Nineteenth Century Shooting Matches
• Dunkard Life in Lebanon Valley Sixty Years Ago
• Nicholas Bervinchak
• An Album of Etchings of the Pennsylvania Coal Region
• Corn Culture in Pennsylvania
• Rye Bread Lehigh County Style
• "Dutchified-English": Some Lebanon Valley Examples
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival: A European Report

Letter From Harold C. Shank To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 18, 1961, Harold C. Shank

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Harold C. Shank addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated January 18, 1961. Within, Shank provides personal stories surrounding the holidays in Berks and Lancaster counties, including "Belsnickles," annual auctions, cherry trees and Santa Claus.

Note On Amish "Old Christmas", January 6, 1961, Unknown Author

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten note on the reverse of a newspaper clipping from the Ohio Daily Record entitled, "'Old Christmas' Today Is Serious 2nd Holiday For Amish Residents Of Area", by Clif Bushnell and dated January 6, 1961. The note speculates about whether the Amish have always used this date or whether it was influenced by changes in the calendar.

Outline For An Article On Apple Butter, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten outline composed by Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated circa 1961. The list compiles various aspects of apple butter ranging from terminology and history to uses and appearances in rhymes and other literary forms.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 11, No. 2, Samuel Preston Bayard, Walter E. Boyer, Robert C. Bucher, Edna Eby Heller, Amos Long Jr., Vincent R. Tortora, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Walter Ellsworth Boyer (1911-1960)
• The Meaning of Human Figures in Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art
• Meadow Irrigation in Pennsylvania
• Receipt Books-New and Old
• Pennsylvania Cave and Ground Cellars
• The Amish in Their One-Room Schoolhouses
• Collectanea

Letter From Florence Baver To Alfred L. Shoemaker, August 10, 1960, Florence Baver

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Florence Baver to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated August 10, 1960. Within, the author provides various anecdotes from the Lehigh County region, including humor stories and naming lore.

Pennsylvania Folklife Special 1960 Festival Issue, Don Yoder, J. William Frey, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Martha Ross Swope, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch: Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies
• Hex Signs: A Myth
• Lebanon Valley Date Stones
• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Folk Festival Program
• Religious Patterns of the Dutch Country
• The Costumes of the Plain Dutch
• "Love Feasts"
• "Horse-and-Buggy" Mennonites
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 11, No. 1, Clarence Kulp Jr., Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Roy C. Kulp, John R. Mumaw, Amos Long Jr., John Cummings, Jane Keplinger Burris, Thomas R. Brendle

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Dunker Weekend Love Feast of 100 Years Ago
• The Peacock in Pennsylvania
• The Get-Togethers of the Young Amish Folk
• Church and Meetinghouse Stables and Sheds
• Abraham Harley Cassel - Dunkard Bibliophile
• Mennonite Folklore
• Springs and Springhouses
• Finishing Wooden Surfaces
• Early Funeral Notices
• Collecting Dialect Folk Songs

Letter From W. A. Weller To Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 28, 1960, W. A. Weller

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from W. A. Weller addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated March 28, 1960. Within, Weller details the harmful consequences of working the farm on Ascension Day and Good Friday.

Letter From Lois Springer To The Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, February 16, 1960, Lois Springer

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Lois Springer addressed to the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, dated February 16, 1960. Within, Springer inquires about an Amish bell she possesses in her personal collection and whether it found potential use in religious observations.