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Virgin Islands
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
Among its diverse holdings of traditional music and folklore, the American
Folklife Center's collections include children's songs, chants, and games
from the American Virgin Islands recorded by Karen Ellis-Bell on St. Croix
in 1978, and Dutch Creole folktales paraphrased into English Creole and
re-translated into Dutch Creole.
The American Virgin Islands 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.
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