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Seminole Dolls

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.

Seminoles used to make dolls mainly as toys for their own children, but now Billie, like other Seminole dollmakers, depends upon the craft to earn her living.

 

Collection of Seminole dolls in the process of being made by Mary Billie : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida  
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Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John in search of palmetto fibers to make dolls : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Claudia C. John helping her mother Mary B. Billie look for palmetto fibers to make dolls : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Mary B. Billie's tools for gathering palmetto fibers to make Seminole dolls : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Seminole woman gathering palmettos : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation
             

Seminole woman gathering palmettos : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation
 
Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she is about to harvest for dollmaking : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Mary B. Billie harvesting palmetto fibers for dollmaking : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she has collected for dollmaking : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
             

Partially built chickee : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John by a table under a partially built chickee : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Seminole women starting to make dolls : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation
 
Mary B. Billie in the early process of making a Seminole doll : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
             

Seminole women starting to make dolls : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation
 
Mary B. Billie sewing a Seminole doll head to the body : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
 
Mary B. Billie displaying work during the process of attaching a Seminole doll head to the body
 
Mary Billie displaying work after stuffing Seminole doll with palmetto fibers : Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida
             
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