Unit I Defining Terms

Online Scavenger Hunt

 

Name:___________________________________________Date:____________________________


Check the following Louisiana folklife traditions that you find on the Internet. 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://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies), 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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