Hecho En Tejas

by Graham, Joe Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781574410389
• ISBN10: 1574410385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Texas Pr

Summary

When the early Spanish and Mexican colonists came to settle Texas, they brought with them a rich culture which enabled them to settle and build a civilization in a wild land. The broad intracultural diversity of these settlers from different parts of Mexico and Spain are nowhere more evident in Texas than in the material culture--folk art, folk craft, architecture--which is part of our Spanish-Mexican legacy in Texas. Hecho en Tejas, the first book-length publication to focus on Texas-Mexican material culture, shows the richness of Tejano folk arts and crafts traditions through essays on Hispanic folk art in San Antonio in the home and yard, and on the street; through quilting traditions; through the vaqueros' traditions of weaving horsehair ropes and plaiting rawhide for quirts and bridles, and making of saddles; making of paper flowers as coronas para los muertos--primarily for decorating graves; making of ceramic figures for religious and secular use; the making of stringed instruments; the making of pinatas; religious folk art and yard art, grutas, roadside crosses, as well as religious matachines dance traditions; jacales as a form of folk house, and the built-environment of a Texas-Mexican ranch. A bibliography of Texas Mexican Material Culture is included.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Francis Edward Abernethy
Hecho a Mano en Tejas	18	(30)
Joe S. Graham
Art Among Us Arte Entre Nosotros: Mexican-American Folk Art in San Antonio	48	(29)
Pat Jasper
Kay Turner
The Mexican-American Quilting Traditions of Laredo, San Ygnacio and Zapata	77	(16)
Norma Cantu
Ofelia Zapata Vela
Vaquero Folk Arts and Crafts in South Texas	93	(24)
Joe S. Graham
Costume as Cultural Resistance and Affirmation: The Case of a South Texas Community	117	(14)
Norma Cantu
Coronas para los Muertos: The Fine Art of Making Paper Flowers	131	(15)
Curtis Tunnell
Enrique Madrid
Homages in Clay: The Figural Ceramics of Jose Varela	146	(26)
Suzanne Seriff
Miguel Acosta, Instrumentista	172	(16)
James C. McNutt
The Pinata-Making Tradition in Laredo	188	(16)
Esperanza Gallegos
Tejano Saddlemakers and the Running W Saddle Shop	204	(18)
Joe S. Graham
Texas-Mexican Religious Folk Art in Robstown, Texas	222	(28)
Cynthia L. Vidaurri
Mexican-American Yard Art in Kingsville	250	(13)
Eric Ramos
Grutas in the Spanish Southwest	263	(15)
John O. West
Mexican-American Roadside Crosses in Starr Country	278	(15)
Alberto Barrera
The Jacal in South Texas: The Origins and Form of a Folk House	293	(16)
Joe S. Graham
Randado: The Built Environment of a Texas-Mexican Ranch	309	(26)
Mary Anna Casstevens
Bibliography of Texas-Mexican Material Culture	335	(10)
Contributors	345	(4)
Index	349