Name:___________________________________________Date:____________________________

Check the following Louisiana folklife traditions that you find on the Web. Be prepared to describe objects and where you found them.

1. Using The Creole State Exhibit(http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/ /CSE/creole_home.html), find something made of: moss beadwork lace pine straw (or pine    needles) paper willow iron flowers leather fabric feathers 2. Using The Creole State Exhibit(http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/ /CSE/creole_home.html), find the following traditional objects: net mask Jazz umbrella duck decoy rural Mardi Gras ladder back chair pirogue willow furniture shotgun house frottoir (rubboard) Blessing of the Fleet Mardi Gras St. Joseph Day Altar doll egret lace

3. Using Louisiana Folk Artist Biographies website (http://www.nsula.edu/folklife/database/database.htm)find a Louisiana folk artist who: lives in Natchitoches Parish shoes horses is of Isleño heritage practices ritual traditions carves plays zydeco music sings décimas lives in Claiborne Parish makes blowguns sings or plays bluegrass revived an Easter tradition is of Norwegian heritage skins alligators lives in Ouachita Parish cooks cures with folk medicine lives in Lafayette Parish does tatting is of Creole heritage plays fiddle lives in Assumption Parish quilts 4. Using Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana (www.lpb.org/programs/ swappingstories/), find the following verbal traditions: scary story joke an example of Louisiana dialect tall tale legend myth

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