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Polkas, Fastnacht and Kloppelei: Contemporary German Folk Arts in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1997)
36 percent of Missourians claim German ancestry, according to a recent survey. This high percentage is the result of a massive German emigration to Missouri that took place between 1815-1860. Marked German cultural traits ...
The Ozark Johnboat: Its History, Form and Functions
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1991)
This essay looks at three aspects of wooden johnboats. The first section tracks their history from their roots in Colonial Missouri through the present day of 1991. Johnboats were used during the period of railroad ...
Buildin' Boats, Giggin' and Foolin' Around is All Fun: Traditional Material Culture of the Ozark Waterways
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1996)
Gigging - the practice of using a steel object in the shape of a large fork to impale fish - has long been a popular traditional activity in the Missouri Ozarks. Many natives of the area consider gigging to be their sport, ...
Halau Hula O Missouri: Hawaiian Hula and Lei-making in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1999)
Despite their relatively small population, Hawaiians in Missouri have a high visibility because of their interest in teaching and performing their distinctive folk arts. This essay focuses on hula dance and lei-making, ...
"A Handful of Dinky": African American Storytelling in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1992)
Black Missourians brought a rich cultural heritage with them, a syncretism of African, Caribbean, Native American and European elements which helped them survive under the most inhuman circumstances. Foremost among their ...
How I Got Over: African-American Gospel Music in the Missouri Bootheel
(Missouri Folk Arts Program of the Missouri Arts Council, 1995)
This essay emerged from the Bootheel Underserved Arts Communities Project, which was co-sponsored by the Missouri Arts Council, the Missouri Folk Arts Program, and the State Historical Society of Missouri at the University ...
You'll Never Get Ireland in American: Irish Traditional Music and Dance in St. Louis, Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1994)
St. Louis, Missouri boasts a small but active Irish-American community whose historic roots stretch back to the early nineteenth century. Clearly eclipsed by Boston, Chicago, and New York City (among others) in both ...
¡Qué Viva el Westside! Mexican Traditional Arts in Kansas City, Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1993)
Kansas City, Missouri's Westside is the home of a thriving Mexican American population. A host of visual markers distinguish this part of the city, including vivid murals on buildings and cars, bathtub yard shrines housing ...
Drinking a Toast to Roman Victory : A Calenian Ware Cup in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
Molded Bowls from Tel Anafa and Elsewhere
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
"Ten seasons of excavation at Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee, 1968-70, 1972-1973, 1978-1981 and 1986, have shown the site to be one of the richest late Hellenistic settlements yet revealed. Among the copious finds were great ...
The Missouri Murals : Studies for the State Capitol Decorations
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1997)
"Mention the Missouri State Capitol and mural painting, and most people think of Thomas Hart Benton's famous work The Social History of Missouri, which he painted for the lounge of the House of Representatives from 1934 ...
The Judgement of Paris : An Excerpt on a Roman Relief Mirror
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
"Gilded bronze reliefs are characteristic of a group of Roman mirrors of otherwise simple design. Most of the mirrors are small, 9-12 cm in diameter; all have an unadorned, round, reflecting surface of polished high-tin ...
Cupids at the Circus : Missouri's Chariot Sarcophagus
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1995)
"One of the more peculiar and intriguing phenomena in Roman archaeology is the abrupt and still generally unexplained switch from cremation to inhumation that seems to have occurred throughout the Empire during the second ...
A Pair of Cymbals and a Metalworker
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1997)
The Iconographic Implications in the Reconstructed Picenardi Altarpiece : A Typological Interpretation
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1999)
"The present article supplements Norman Land's study by suggesting an iconographic program for the reconstructed Picenardi altarpiece. Building on the foundations of Land's argument, I contend that the formal and structural ...
A Votive Figurine from Early Crete
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1991)
"The history of Greece in the Dark Age is considerably easier to explore on Crete than on the mainland. In contrast with the mysterious turmoil of the Peloponnesos, archaeological evidence reveals a relatively strong ...
Some Thoughts on the Mycenaean Pottery in the Collection of the University of Missouri, Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1991)
"Ouch!" Inscribed Greek Sling Bullets in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1999)
Technique and Composition of the Tel Anafa Stucco
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1999)
An Eighteenth-Century Collaboration : Fragonard, Robert and the Abbe Saint-Non
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)