Manuscript/Mixed Material National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996
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Image 1 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Natinnal llarifa7a Fallpxjc 1 ate by tdte e V 00tie 0010 NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA MARIO RICO e Q HAWAII- Date: 1977
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Image 5 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Obo Add 1 Ghanian American drummerleader Francisco A uabella 59 AfroCuban drummer Juan Alindato 116 Carnival Maskmaker Santiago Almeida 49 Texas Mexican conunto musician E ie Archuleta 141 Hispanic Weaver Alfonse Bois…- Date: 1977
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Image 6 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Wayne Henderson 28 Appalachian luthier Christy Hengel 95 German American Concertina Maker Ray Hicks 175 Appalachian Storyteller Violet _ Hilbert 43 Native American storytellerconservator Skagit Soloman Richard Hoopii 9 Hawaiian singers Mary…- Date: 1977
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Image 7 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Joyce Doc Tate Neva ua a 134 Comanche Indian Flutist Alice New Holy Blue Le 142 Lakota Sioux Quill Artist Yang Fan Nhu 115 Hmon WeaverEmbroiderer Glenn Ohrlin 152 Cowboy SingerStorytellerIllustrator Luis…- Date: 1977
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Image 8 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 19 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT OBO ADDY GhanslianAmerican DrummerGroup Leader Portland Oregon Extended Biography Partly as a result of the growing interest in world music over the…- Date: 1977
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Image 9 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 Addys background as both a traditionalist and an innovator is always present in his work He maintains two musical groups Okropong dedicated to traditional tribal music…- Date: 1977
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Image 10 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 19 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT BETTY PISIO CHRISTENSON Ukrainian American Pysanky Egg Decoration Suring Wisconsin Extended Biography In many cultures around the world the egg is an…- Date: 1977
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Image 11 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 A rich store of meaning laden designs and colors adorns her work and it takes a certain amount of knowledge to read one of her eggs…- Date: 1977
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Image 12 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT PAUL DAHLIN Swedish American Fiddler Minneapolis Minnesota Extended Biography Paul Dahlinfiddler violin repairman composer festival organizer and cultural spokesman is the American…- Date: 1977
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Image 13 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 Before his death in 1984 Edwin Johnson was discovered by fiddlers from Swedish who were amazed at his faithful renditions of a style and repertoire of…- Date: 1977
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Image 14 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT JUAN GUTIIPR Z Musician Percussionist and Group Leader New York City New York Extended Biography The Caribbean has long been a cauldron…- Date: 1977
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Image 15 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 I I National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 In the 1950s the plena had already expanded beyond its community roots to become a popular form of Puerto Rican urban dance music Celebrated…- Date: 1977
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Image 16 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS RICHARD AND SOLOMON HOOPII Hawaiian Singers Kahakuloa Island of Maui Hawaii Extended Biography Native Hawaiians have long placed the human voice at…- Date: 1977
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Image 17 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 1v National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 The Hoopii Brothers music is marked by its open robust style of falsetto singing that includes all the ornaments ii register breaks haihai and changes…- Date: 1977
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Image 18 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT WILL KEYS Appalachian Banjo Player Gray Tennessee Extended Biography Over two centuries of American banjo playing has produced a wealth of performance…- Date: 1977
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Image 19 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 z National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 After serving in World War IL Will Keys returned home and continued to play banjo in the TriCities area of Tennessee and Virginia He played…- Date: 1977
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Image 20 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS M6 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT JOAQUIN JACK LUJAN Chamorro Blacksmith Territory of Guam Extended Biography During Spains Golden Age in the 16th century the reach of Spanish…- Date: 1977
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Image 21 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 IAI National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 Jack Lujan sees very clearly the value of his blacksmithing tradition to the future of his community and his culture When he retired he once…- Date: 1977
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Image 22 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT EVA McADAMS Shoshone Regalia Maker Fort Washakie Wyoming Extended Biography There are no words for art or artist in Plains Indian languages…- Date: 1977
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Image 23 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 10 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 Among her most prized creations are moccasins both lowtop and hightop with elaborately decorated leggings She applies the beads with either a lazy or an…- Date: 1977
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Image 24 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS JOHN MEALING AND CORNELIUS WRIGHT JR Railroad Worksong singers Birmingham Alabama Extended Biography It is a truism that human hardship often engenders…- Date: 1977
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Image 25 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 John Mealing told folklorist Maggie Holtzberg of an incident from his early days of calling track in Birmingham when a crew was having difficulty moving the…- Date: 1977
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Image 26 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 1996 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT VERNON OWENS Potter Sea Grove North Carolina Extended Biography It seems strange doesnt it to have ones whole life and the lives…- Date: 1977
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Image 27 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 2v National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 In 1983 Vernon Owens Purchased Jugtown Pottery from Country Roads Working with his wife Pam their two young children and his brother Bobby potters all…- Date: 1977
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Image 28 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 19 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT DOLLY SPENCER Inupiat Dollmaker Homer Alaska Extended Biography For many connoisseurs of the tradition Dolly Spencer an Inupiat of Homer Alaska epitomizes…- Date: 1977
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Image 29 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Z2 National Heritage Fellowship Biography p 2 Dolly Spencers dolls are remarkable for the painstaking detail of clothing and facial expression that gives them a startlingly lifelike quality They may be renderings…- Date: 1977
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Image 30 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 4 THE NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS 1995 Bao MoLi Photo by Timothy Chang BAO MOLI i 4 HR000H0UT Asia there are many traditions in which a central focus of musical acumen taste and…- Date: 1977
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Image 31 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 middleaged woman personifying the highest Confucian refined ideals Because of her extraordinary talent and accomplishment she was invited to stay on at the school as a master teacher But her future was…- Date: 1977
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Image 32 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 6 Lyman Enloe Photo by Ted Houb wove rugs to sell to local trading posts At the age of 11 Mary Holiday Black the daugh ter of a rug weaver and a…- Date: 1977
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Image 33 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 the Missouri fiddle tradition Born in 1906 in Cole County on the northern edge of the Ozarks Enloe grew up in a musical family His father Lige Enloe was a renowned fiddler…- Date: 1977
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Image 34 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Wayne Henderson Photo by Gerald Anderson cent uryandahalf In the 19th century Irish jig dancing as it was then called was a standard feature of American popular the atrical forms of minstrelsy…- Date: 1977
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Image 35 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 should always be linked to live music main taining the vibrancy spontaneity and high level of skill that is so often diminished when dancing to taped music Unlike many step dancers Donny…- Date: 1977
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Image 36 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Bea Ellis Hensley Photo by Cedric N Chatterley wanted one as soon as 1 get it finished Indeed Wayne Hendersons exquisitely fash ioned steel string guitars are so much in demand that…- Date: 1977
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Image 37 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 Doi through As soon as Hensley was old enough Boone took him on as an apprentice teaching him the full range of skills demand ed of blacksmiths Like his teacher he excels…- Date: 1977
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Image 38 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 2 traditional art or folk art But this does not mean that the traditional or folk artist slav ishly reproduces facsimiles of the facsimiles inherited from previous generations The relationship between artist…- Date: 1977
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Image 39 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 have renewed their ties to ageold perform ing arts traditions In Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego and New York City regional folk dance rondalla a string ensem ble of Spanish…- Date: 1977
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Image 40 of National Heritage Award winners, circa 1996 34an 14 Robert Jr Lockwood Photo by James Fraher guro or teacher He has taught and per formed with virtually all of the American kulintang ensembles His missionary zeal and endless patience…- Date: 1977