Basques -- Nevada

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Banner, the baton, chest guards and a child's chest guard used for 20. Korrika in Reno.

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Various pamphlets from different Basque-American festivals and exhibitions, a 2017 calendar, stickers, festival and events posters, pamphlets from the Basque Museum in Boise, booklet of the Jaialdi 95' in Boise, a scarf from Basque Soccer Friendly, a retrospective booklet of San Francisco Basque Club and two posters. It also includes two booklets one showing Basque sheepherder's tree carvings and the other, 'Amerikanuak!', about Basques in the U.S.

Abstract The sheep owners in the Carson and Washoe valleys of Nevada sent their flocks and herders up into the Sierra mountain meadows every spring. The herders were Basques, and they took readily to the mountain terrain that was like their own Pyrenees, where, for untold ages, their ancestors had guarded sheep.Frances R. Wallace and Hans Reiss, the artists behind the drawings, called the collection "Basquos," though also believed that the collection should have been subtitled "Aspen...

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Basque items related to the Basque Exhibition at Smithsonian Folk Festival, such as pamphlets, posters, photographs of tree carving and typical Basque fisher's neckerchief.

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James K. Wallace camped with an old Basque herder in Nevada and wrote about the experience for the National Wool Growers Association. The collection contains a typed copy of James K. Wallace's essay "The Basque Sheepherder and the Shepherd Psalm" and a printout of Joan Snipe's blog post about it, published in 2006.

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Forms for interviews of the Basques in the West Research Project. The forms include biographical information, as well as information about work, economic status, leisure activities, relationships with the Basque community, language skills, and religion. The folder also includes assessment reports about some of the interviews by interviewers.

Scope and Contents

Forms for interviews of the Basques in the West Research Project. The forms include biographical information, as well as information about work, economic status, leisure activities, relationships with the Basque community, language skills, and religion.

Content Description

Five video files created from the digitization of silent Super 8 of raw footage from the Elko Basque Festival 1979. The videos contain images of the sports demostrations like weight lifting (harrijasotzaileak and txinga-eramatea), tug of war (sokatira), Basque ball (pelota) and aizkolariak; dances and dancers; audience; the bread contest and the luncheon.

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Documentation, clippings, news articles, papers, letters and correspondence regarding the Basque Festival in Sparks, the Basque Monument in Reno, the Basques in the Contemporary World Seminar, in Reno, and other Basque issues. It also includes several different newspapers.

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Various phamplets and programs published by the Center for the Basque Studies of the University of Nevada, Reno. There is also a copy of the Northen Nevada Diversity Summit program from the 2017.