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Forms upon the frontier : folklife and folk arts in the United States / Edited by Austin and Alta Fife and Henry H. Glassie
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Monograph series (Utah State University) ; v. 16, no. 2.
- Utah State University. Monograph series, v. 16, no. 2.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- Folk art--United States.
- Folk art.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- Frontier and pioneer life in art.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7530)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, 1969
- Contents:
- Introduction / Henry H. Glassie
- Folklife and folk arts in the United States: Exhibit / Austin E. Fife
- Architecture
- The impact of the Georgian Form on American Folk Housing (abstract) / Henry H. Glassie
- Building in Brick in Colonial North America: The patterned brick houses of West New Jersey (abstract) / Roger T. Trindell
- Dutch barns and barracks in New Jersey (abstract) / Peter O. Wacker
- The Waggoner log house near Paragon, Indiana (abstract) / Warren E. Roberts
- Architectural values of early frontier log structures / Phillip W. Sultz
- Arts and Crafts
- Sectarian costume research in the United States / Don Yoder
- Cheever Meaders: North Georgia potter (abstract) / Ralph Rinzler
- A progress report on the pictorial documentation of early Utah gravestones (abstract) / Maury Haseltine
- Aspen tree doodlings in the Wasatch Mountains: a preliminary survey of traditional tree cravings / Jan Harold Brunvand and John C. Abramson
- Medicine and Recipes
- Folk medican magic and symbolism in the West / Wayland D. Hand
- Mariah Huntsman Leavitt: Midwife of the Desert Frontier / Juanita Brooks
- Uses of native plants in early Mormon country (abstract) / Berniece A. Anderson
- Folk Life, Customs, and Ethnic Groups
- American folk customs of courtship and marriage: the bedroom / Frances Tally
- Opportunities for folklife study in Northwest Mexico (abstract) / James S. Griffith
- Defining the American folk legend (abstract) / Richard M. Dorson
- The Socio-cultural life of the lower Rio Grande Valley to 1859 (abstract) / James L. Evans
- Kansas and the Lindsborg Swedes (abstract) / William E. Koch
- Cache Valley Horses (abstract) / Claire Noall
- Notes about the authors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Rare Book Collection Schimmel 7530 : Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- HSP GR105.F67 : The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- OCLC:
- 35265
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