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"Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center at 50
Highlights from the American Folklife Center's 50 years of collecting: recordings, photos and objects on the living traditions of food, play, work and place.
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A young Crow dancer at Crow Fair, Montana, in 1979 looks down at a Polaroid of himself. It is curator Michael Pahn's single favourite image in the show, and the team chose it partly for its colour, against the sepia most ethnographic photos of Native people come in.
Everything comes from the American Folklife Center and Veterans History Project archives, in six sections: sharing, food, play, work, place and sustaining folklife. There's an 1890 wax-cylinder Passamaquoddy song, among the first ethnographic field recordings ever made, and a media station where Chuck Brown plays "Bustin' Loose" on the plaza outside this building in 2002. Library lore says the Supreme Court shut that concert down for noise; the Center's events coordinator says it was a different show.
The last section asks you to record your own family's traditions, with tips for interviewing the veterans in your life. It's in the Southwest Gallery, second floor of the Great Hall, free with a timed-entry pass, until 8 January 2028.
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The Crow Fair Polaroid
Look for Michael Crummett's 1979 colour photo of a young Crow dancer studying a Polaroid of himself, with other kids in everyday clothes behind him.
The Frank Warner banjo
A banjo covered in the signatures of more than 200 folk musicians.
A short snorter
World War II banknotes taped end to end, one per country a service member reached; anyone who couldn't produce theirs on a night out bought the drinks.
Delbert Hesler's POW diary
Kept in Japan's Zentsuji prison camp, its pages list the foods and recipes he wanted to remember, some using Japanese ingredients he meant to cook after the war.
The Omaha Powwow arcade booth
Carl Fleischhauer's 1983 photo of a booth of video games set up at a traditional powwow, in the Folklife at Play section.
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- "Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center at 50Shawn Miller / Library of Congress
- לשמוע את קולה: נשים שחורות ושייקספיר (To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare)Folger Shakespeare Library
- Water's Edge: The Art of Truman LoweCourtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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- National Museum of the American IndianCarol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, נחלת הכלל
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