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| Title : |
Mary Billie and her daughter Claudia C. John holding
handmade Seminole dolls : Big Cypress Reservation, Florida |
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Folklife Collection. Seminole Slide/Tape Project
(Palmetto Dolls). |
| Image Number : |
fs80355a |
| Date : |
Not after 1980. |
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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: "The Seminole palmetto dolls require skilled workmanship
and are beautiful to look at. But, more important, they are an expression
of Seminole culture -- a bridge between the Seminoles and the outside
world."
Forms part of series S1577, Florida Folklife Archive, Photographs and
Slides of Folk Arts, Artisans, and Performers.
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