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Oregon
The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive
of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.
Collections
The collections of the American Folklife Center include significant holdings
of materials documenting Native American traditions in the state of Oregon.
Represented in its recordings are the following tribal groups: Clackamas,
Kalapuya, Shasta, Tututni, Umatilla, and Umpqua. In addition to collections
of native folk traditions, there are large collections of Jewish folklife,
Anglo-American fiddle tunes, and recordings of street- corner stories collected
in Portland in the late 1940s.
- Oregon Collections in the Archive
of Folk Culture [full text]
Oregon participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies project, which
includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations for the American
Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.
Exhibition
- 1982 "Generation to Generation: Sharing the Intangible," (exhibit),
Hood River County Historical Museum
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