Record #:

16302

Author(s):

McGowan, Thomas

Abstract:

The traditional arts and crafts of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee people, originally functional or ritual in use, are attractive to modern peoples for their fine quality and decorativeness. They are valued not only for their beauty but because they embody the Cherokee traditions. A major force in the continuation and appreciation of the traditional crafts of the Eastern Band has been the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, a craftpersons' cooperative in the town of Cherokee under the management of Betty DuPree.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1987, p71-72 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Art; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Crafts; Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual; DuPree, Betty

Record #:

16303

Author(s):

Oxendine, Betty

Abstract:

When questions arise concerning the history or traditions of the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina, the first person approached is Adolph Dial, a Lumbee historian and humanitarian. Dial, the chairman of the American Indian studies Department at Pembroke State University, has long been recognized, locally and nationally, for his knowledge and contributions to the preservation and perpetuation of the oral and written history and folk traditions of the Lumbee people. His accomplishments include the creation of the Lumbee Regional Development Association (LRDA), the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind, the tribal history THE ONLY LAND I KNOW, and the organization of the Department of American Indian Studies at Pembroke State University.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1987, p73-74 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lumbee Indians--North Carolina; Dial, Adolf, 1922-1995; Pembroke State University

Record #:

16304

Author(s):

Towey, Ingrid K.

Abstract:

Towey discusses the themes of alienation and literacy in the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, and her use of the oral cultures and communities that produced strong personal identities for African Americans.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1987, p75-85 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Literature

Record #:

16305

Author(s):

Henigan, Julie

Abstract:

Although folk narratives in the southern United States and Ireland are similar, each represent a unique part of their respective cultures while combining to form a single subgenre of folk tales: the Jack Tale. Henigan discusses the Jack Tale tradition of Ireland and the United States to examine the differences in order to demonstrate the ways in which each depends upon and reflects its own cultural climate.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1987, p87-105 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore

Record #:

16306

Author(s):

Wiseman, Scott G.

Abstract:

Scott Wiseman with his wife Lula Belle, shared in song the Wiseman view of life on the \"Cliffs of Linville\" with millions of Americans for well over twenty-five years, projecting an image of the region so appealing that they eventually became the most popular folk/country act on the nation's most popular country music radio program, the WLS National Barn Dance.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 33 Issue 1-2, 1985, p1-26, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk music

Record #:

16307

Author(s):

Osborn, Rachel S.

Abstract:

In 1866 a small unpretentious farmhouse was built in the Quaker community of Snow Camp, North Carolina. It taking a closer look at this home and its community, Osborn focuses on the form, construction, and use of the Hugh Dixon homestead through time and its use as an expression of changing values, perceptions, and ways of life.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1984, p2-17, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Homesteads; Snow Camp; Quaker communities

Record #:

16308

Author(s):

Schwartz, Stuart C.

Abstract:

Recent research in Charlotte has discovered material culture artifacts important to the life of a North Carolina group at the turn of the century; architectural research conducted by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Properties Commission has uncovered wall murals in a hall where Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodges met from the 1870s through 1920.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1984, p30-32, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Murals

Record #:

16309

Author(s):

Baldwin, Karen

Abstract:

Mrs. Emma Dupree was born to a tradition of knowing about the curative and preventative uses of the natural pharmacopeia which grew wild along the banks of the creeks and branches and the Tar River in her home area of Falkland in Pitt County. Her interest in the healing, helping effects of the plants was established early as well as her sense of place and community. In Fountain where she lives, Mrs. Dupree serves her community of neighbors primarily with the plants she keeps in the small gardens surrounding her house. She grows a variety of sage, mint, tansy, and rabbit tobacco along with her flowers and the healing berry tree.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1984, p50-53, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Traditional medicine

Record #:

16310

Author(s):

Williams, Cratis

Abstract:

While growing up by the sea at Beaufort, Borden Mace spoke the English for which the area is noted. After a distinguished career in educational film production, Mace was lured to the helm of the Appalachian Consortium with headquarters on the campus of Appalachian State University at Boone. In his travels in Appalachia he became acquainted with the folk speech of the region, nothing that, like the speech of coastal Carolina, it possessed a Middle English flavor. Fascinated by the lore and speech ways of the Appalachia, Mace published the first recent history of Western North Carolina and a collection of mountain speech and idiom in BITS OF MOUNTAIN SPEECH.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1984, p54-55 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mace, Francis Borden, 1920-; Folk speech

Record #:

16311

Author(s):

Fenn, Elizabeth A.

Abstract:

In the Work of William E. Young of Pantego, Afro-American art has come full circle. Having steeped himself in the black cultures of the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard states, Young has turned directly to the source--Africa--for the inspiration of much of his work. Today he works in a variety of media, including cement, watercolors and oil paints. But most of his energy is devoted to wood sculpture, and it is here that Africa is most clearly visible in Young's work.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1984, p56-69, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American artists--Pantego

Record #:

16312

Author(s):

Roote, Robert

Abstract:

Arthur Palmer Hudson, eminent folklorist, describes \"Poor Naomi\" as North Carolina's \"principal contribution to American folksong.\" A part of the Murdered Girl tradition, the ballad has well-known counterparts in other countries and cultures. But \"Naomi Wise\" has evolved from an earlier date and is now widely diffused in North Carolina and beyond, The historical facts behind the ballad, however, have not been adequately explored.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1984, p70-81 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ballads; Wise, Naomi, d. 1807--Songs and music

Record #:

16313

Author(s):

Malone, Elmer Taylor, Jr.

Abstract:

Investigating the architecture and history of the William Eli Taylor House in Martin County has provided to important research opportunities. First, the house offers a test case for a theory of folk architecture, the hypothesis that the English hall-and-parlor house was modified by North Carolinians to fit their New World environment. Secondly, looking at the evolution of the house and the social, economic, and familial factors affecting that evolution presents a rich study of ancestry.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 1, May 1980, p5-21, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk architecture; Architecture--Martin County; William Eli Taylor House--Martin County

Record #:

16314

Author(s):

Shaw, Carol

Abstract:

Shaw discusses the life and career of a native North Carolina folk doctor, Cicero West.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 1, May 1980, p22-41, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Medicine--Folklore; Folk doctors; West, Cicero, d. 1942

Record #:

16315

Author(s):

Houbart, Sylvie

Abstract:

Although home hog slaughter is quietly fading into the past in many areas, the wide use of pork in the diet of Southerners is not. From the colonial period on, pork has been an important part of Southern agricultural economy and life. The hog killing and pork cookery help to distinguish this region and indeed families of farmers.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 1, May 1980, p42-55, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hogs; Cookery (Pork)

Record #:

16316

Author(s):

Zug, Charles G., III

Abstract:

Daniel Watkins Patterson is a preeminent scholar in the field of Shaker studies. He is also a first-rate teacher in the English Department at the University of North Carolina and Chairman of the Curriculum in Folklore. He has written books and articles, and created films on Shaker spirituals and Social Harp singing, as well as Scotch-Irish gravestone carvers.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Nov 1980, p89-90 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklorists