Folk housing in Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland

• Main Author: Mellin, Robert
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarlyCommons 1990
• Subjects: Architecture|Folklore|Cultural anthropology; Tilting; Fogo; Fogo Island; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9112605

In Newfoundland, folk housing is declining as popular house forms are adopted. Through a study of the architecture and material culture of one small community on Fogo Island, the shift from folk to popular culture is explored. Settlement form, folk houses, popular houses, additions to houses, furniture, and outbuildings are described by means of drawings, photographs, and interviews with the residents of the community. Drawings are used as an interpretive tool in a search for correspondences between the process of making and the architectural details. Fundamental changes in values have taken place in Tilting, and these are especially evident in popular house form and in the recent decline of visiting, animal husbandry, family neighborhoods, furniture making, and mat making.