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An unknown Toronto paper. No date on the clipping: a summer folk festival, probably between 1967 and 1972 - Larena and Gordon Clark organised the craft fairs of those years. The festival is not named; it may be Mariposa.
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TEN BOOTHS offering Canadiana crafts are on display at the Festival. Larena Clark, one of the country's foremost traditional singers, and her husband, Gordon, have organized the show.
A potter's wheel is worked by Marion Maskell beside a display of her finished products.
John Redbird, a Canadian Indian, is spending the weekend cutting, carving, and painting a totem pole. "These white men don't know a thing about totem-cutting. It's an art of our own people," he said. He is making a pole he designed especially for the Festival.
The Canadian Society of Creative Leather Craft has a working demonstration by several women, headed by Mrs. Gladys Riddell, with finished wallets and purses and several other leather items.
Mrs. Win Lakin is showing rug-hooking, and Robert Carwood works his loom, weaving ponchos and ties in bright oranges, greens, yellows, and reds.
Janet Corbiere is running a booth comprised of Canadian Indian crafts made on several provincial reserves. Moccasins, beads, and quill-work are among items for sale.
Leather sandals are popular with folk music fans according to Sibby Oughton. She makes a complete pair in a couple of hours.
In keeping with some of the hip-looking folk fans, joss sticks, incense, and earrings, mobiles and paper mache flowers, are displayed at a tent boutique run by Regine Lazarek.
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