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| Title : |
Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she
is about to harvest for dollmaking : Big Cypress Reservation, Florida |
| Series : |
Folklife Collection. Seminole Slide/Tape Project
(Palmetto Dolls). |
| Image Number : |
fs80278a |
| Date : |
Not after 1980. |
| Notes : |
Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was
17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who had learned it from
Mary's grandmother. Accompanying note: "When Mary finds a good palmetto,
she starts to strip out the fiber. 'First, you have to cut the leaves that
are standing on that thing and then, after that, you just cut that thing
off. You use the smaller knife to take the palmetto fibers off.'""'She [has]
a cloth with her and after she cuts them and gets it, that thing off it,
she wraps it and brings it back. If it's dry enough, she goes ahead and
makes the dolls. But if it's kind of wet, she has to let'em dry out for
a day before she can make it.'" Forms part of series S1577, Florida Folklife
Archive, Photographs and Slides of Folk Arts, Artisans, and Performers.
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