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Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 709. This collection includes documentation of two Kentucky Arts Council's "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" program site visits and master-apprentice pairs focusing on folk music. Pairings included Danny Jones with Paul Colon and Russ Childers with John Whitaker.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 710. This collection includes documentation of the Kentucky Arts Council's "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" pairing of fiddler John Harrod with apprentice Rossi Clark.


Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 704. This collection includes documentation of the Kentucky Arts Council's "Folk Art Apprenticeship" program pairing Lestel Childress and Vickie Wilkerson.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 707. This collection includes documentation of multiple Kentucky Art Council's "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" program site visits and master-apprrentice pairs for 2003-2004. Pairings include: Art Stamper with Shelia Nichols, Leaona Waddell with Charlene Long, and Steve Rector with Krystal Miller.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 705. This collection includes documentation of the Kentucky Arts Council's "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" program site visits to three master-apprenctice pairings.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Fa 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 706. This collection includes documentation of the Kentucky Arts Council's "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" program site visits to two master-apprentice pairs: Clevie Childress with Jeffry Carroll and J.P. Fraley with Andrew Bevans.


The Ground Slate Transition On The Northwest Coast: Establishing A Chronological Framework, Joshua Daniel Dinwiddie 2014 Portland State University

The Ground Slate Transition On The Northwest Coast: Establishing A Chronological Framework, Joshua Daniel Dinwiddie

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis establishes the earliest appearance of ground slate points at 50 locations throughout the Northwest Coast of North America. Ground slate points are a tool common among maritime hunter-gatherers, but rare among hunter-gatherers who utilize terrestrial subsistence strategies; ground slate points are considered one of the archaeological hallmarks of mid-to-late Holocene Northwest Coast peoples. The appearance of ground slate points in the archaeological record is frequently marked by a concurrent decline in the prevalence of flaked stone points, a phenomenon often referred to as "the ground slate transition." Until now, the specific timing of the appearance of these tools …


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, 1999-2000 (Fa 703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, 1999-2000 (Fa 703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives 703. This collection includes documentation of site visits conducted by members of the Kentucky Folklife Program to the homes or studios of participants in the master/apprentice grant program from the Kentucky Arts Council.


Interview With Steven R. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Interview With Steven R. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Steven R. Winiger by Sara E. Carrico about family farms and farming in south central Kentucky.


Carrico, Sara (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Carrico, Sara (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid, research paper, and transcripts for Folklife Archives Project 779. This collection features information and a research paper about farms and farming in south central Kentucky. The project was complete by Western Kentucky University student Sara Carrico for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.


Carr, Chloe (Fa 782), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Carr, Chloe (Fa 782), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and research paper for Folklife Archives Project 782. This collection features information and a research paper about the 53rd annual Pope County Deer Festival held in Golconda, Illinois, which is sponsored by the local Rotary Club. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Chloe Carr for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.


Barbee, Candace (Fa 781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Barbee, Candace (Fa 781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and research paper for Folklife Archives Project 781. This collection features information and a research paper about Reid's Livery Winery near Alvaton, Warren County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Candace Barbee for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.


Zibart, Abby (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Zibart, Abby (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid, research paper, and transcripts for Folklife Archives Project 780. This collection features information and a research paper about legend-tripping conducted at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Abby Zibart for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.


Interview With Jack G. Montgomery (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Interview With Jack G. Montgomery (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Jack G. Montgomery by Abby Zibart about legend-tripping at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky.


Interview With Ellyn I. Kerchenski (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Interview With Ellyn I. Kerchenski (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Ellyn I. Kerchenski by Abby Zibart about legend-tripping at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky.


Interview With Kenton L. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Interview With Kenton L. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Kenton L. Winiger by Sara E. Carrico about family farms and farming in south central Kentucky.


Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Ecological Knowledge Of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands: Implications For Conservation And Sustainable Resource Use In Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Brian John Lefler 2014 Portland State University

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Ecological Knowledge Of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands: Implications For Conservation And Sustainable Resource Use In Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Brian John Lefler

Dissertations and Theses

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) have inhabited the southern Great Basin for thousands of years, and consider Nuvagantu (where snow sits) in the Spring Mountains landscape to be the locus of their creation as a people. Their ancestral territory spans parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. My research identifies and describes the heterogeneous character of Nuwuvi ecological knowledge (NEK) of piñon-juniper woodland ecosystems within two federal protected areas (PAs) in southeastern Nevada, the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA) and the Desert National Wildlife Refuge (DNWR), as remembered and practiced to varying degrees by 22 select Nuwuvi knowledge holders. I focus …


Asantewaa, Nana Yaa (Fa 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Asantewaa, Nana Yaa (Fa 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives 702. This collection features an audio application on cassette tape for an apprenticeship grant from the Kentucky Arts Council through the "Folk Arts Apprenticeship" program for Nana Yaa Asantewaa, an African American storyteller.


Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, 1992-1993 (Fa 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Arts Council - Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, 1992-1993 (Fa 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives 701. This collection contains VHS video tapes of two apprenticeship matches and proposals from banjo and fiddle players.


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