Dynamics Of Folklore

Illustrations

l\\ustratbns Wart charmer Onie Ruesch 20 Paulmina Nick New provides Italian customary foods 21 Hunting for Easter eggs 21 Vernon Shaffer, carver and whittler 35 Vernon Shaffer's handiwork in whittled fans 36 Dah diniilghaazh ("frybread") 45 Yodeling along a mountain trail in Austria 46 A "climber" or "topper" waves from the top of a spar pole 61 A modern logger working in the woods 63 A logger in the 1930s on a freshly cut stump 63 Standing on springboards, loggers fall a Douglas fir 65 Sushi 82 Evaporating the sweet rice vinegar from the sushi rice 82 A sheet of nori is toasted lightly 83 Rolling up vinegared rice on a sheet of nori 83 Controlling the density ofthe roll by "feel" 84 Proper technique in rolling 84 Makizushi rolls 85 Pounding rice for mochi in an usu (mortar) with kine (mallets) 88 Making mochi at the Smithsonian Festival ofAmerican Folklife 88 The basic "tools" for making sushi 89 Making mochi using an oscillating machine 89 Japanese Americans celebrate the summer Obon festival 96 Young women share their culture through the Obon dance 96 Obon dancing 97 Taiko drummers 97 Horse head tombstone in Monticello, Utah 104 Mormon gravestone with temple 104 Gravestones in Astoria, Oregon, showing fishing boats 105 A "weeping lady" gravemarker in Logan, Utah 106 Irish and Serbian American gravestones 107 A graveyard in Japan 108 The grave of a young English visitor in southwestern Germany 108 A Maypole dance 116 The Navajo string figure for dilyihe, the Pleiades 119 A Navajo string figure ofa worm crawling over branches 120 Chiyo Toelken and Patsy Bedonie do a series ofstring games 122 Cooking dah diniilghaazh for a kinaaldd 131 Yazzie Johnson makes ndneeskaadi 132 The Yellowman family eating ndneeskaadi 132 John Palanuk adjusts the strings on a hammered dulcimer 142 The Haywire Band of Springdale, Utah 143 Exchanging tunes and fingering at the West Virginia State Folk Festival 143 Water dowser Eldon McArthur teaches water witching 147 William Wilson learns water witching 148 Helen Yellowman weaves a Yi'ii rug 161 "Chris" Christensen whittles a fan for his grandson 186 A fan and a tower of balls-in-boxes whittled by "Chris" Christensen 187 Joanne, Helen, Hugh, and Mike Yellowman 189 A pair ofmoccasins made by Yellowman 189 Yellowman stands by his wife's loom 191 The wily western jackalope 193 Christmas ornament made from an Mrican Ankoli cow skull 194 Bess Hockema 198 Bess Hockema working on an afghan 202 "Chair Quilt" by African American quilter Annie Jackson 224 A "fancy dancer" at the University of Oregon Powwow 224 A young woman dances the Shawl Dance at the powwow 225 Ute flutemaker Aldean Ketchum plays his Hawk Flute 227 Flutes made by Aldean Ketchum 227 A Navajo wedding basket 240 Neatly stacked woodpiles from Austria, Germany, and Alsatia 264 Navajo necklaces made from gad bi naa'(juniper seed shells) 279 Round rosettes in Navajo jewelry that suggest stars and the cosmos 280 Navajo wedding basket design in a juniper seed necklace 281 A Ye'ii rug woven by Helen Yellowman 283 A personalized rug made by Zonnie "Grandma" Johnson 285 Grandma Johnson spinning yarn sunwise 286 Grandma Johnson and the author flirting 286 Yellowman with his self-made bow and arrows 288 "Molding and straightening" during kinaaldd, the Navajo girls' maturation ceremony 290 Grinding white cornmeal for the kinaaldd cake 290 Women pour cornmeal batter for the kinaaldd cake into a cornhusk-lined pit 291 Vanessa Brown puts the cornhusk covering over the cornmeal batter 292 Sonya Starblanket Brown distributes pieces ofher kinaaldd cake 292 Traditional methods of stacking loose hay in the arid West 302 Appaloosa markings and a warrior's hand stamp on a Native American pickup 305 A couple enters a hogan at the beginning ofa Navajo wedding 314 Kissing on "the A" to become a True Aggie 317 Henry Fleming hand-braiding his own rawhide riata 346 Winding string to make Japanese temari 387 Measuring the string ball for roundness 387 Temari are given away as decorations, toys, or Christmas ornaments 388 A hand-wrought iron doorhandle and a "Nebraska logging chain" 412 Grinding chiilchin (desert sumac berries) on a traditional grindstone 422 ...