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[Identification of item], in the Frances Barefoot Collection #20567-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Pamela Barefoot in April 2019 (Acc. 103584) and February 2020 (Acc. 20200214.1).

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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser and Patrick Cullom, May 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2019

Revisions by: Anne Wells and Clare Carlson, September 2019; by Nancy Kaiser in February 2020, March 2022

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Barefoot, Frances, 1927-2019.
• Festivals--North Carolina.
• National Hollerin' Contest (Spivey's Corner, N.C.)
• Spivey's Corner (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Yodeling--North Carolina.

Frances McLeod Barefoot (1927-2019), a white hollerer, owned a nursery in Smithfield, N.C.

Frances Barefoot (1927-2019), a white hollerer, was the women's winner, with her chihuahua "Peanut," of the 1978 National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, N.C. The collection consists of a scrapbook, photographic images, the winner's trophy, and audio and video recordings that document her participation in the contest. Also included are a "Frances and Peanut" visor and a photograph book with reproductions of photographs depicting Barefoot at hollerin' contests in 1978 and 1979, her daughter's wedding in 1980, the inscription on her headstone, and handwritten notes Barefoot wrote about events at which she hollered.

• Photographs (PF-20567/1)
• Audiocassette (FS-20567/1)
• Digital files (DF-20567/1-3)
• Museum items (MU-20567/1-2)