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BIOGRAPHICAL/ HISTORICAL NOTE: This series contains the typed transcripts
to taped interviews recorded in 1979 and 1980. The people interviewed
are Mary Billy, Claudia C. John, Billy Burbank III, Lucreaty Clark, David
Cook, Melvin Dougherty, Antonios Lerios, Manning "Skipper" Lockett, Raphael
Martinez, Aleida Marinez-Garrido, and Cruz Rosary Hernandez. There is
also an interview with an unidentified person discussing the Santeria
religion in the Cuban community in Miami.
The interviews concern such subjects as Seminole Indians and doll making,
shrimping, superstition, Cuban culture and customs, Santeria religion,
oral histories, basket weaving, crop preservation and storage, a number
of folk traditions and crafts, deep sea diving helmets, and cigar making.
FINDING AID: Folder listing
available.
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