Anne Lunestad spinning cotton at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Anne Lunestad spinning cotton at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Spinner Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Demonstrations Craft Cotton Spinning wheels Spinning | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_08_c83-037 | Annie Jimmie interview | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Native Americans Seminole Indians Chickees Clothing Patchwork Textile processes Sewing Needlework Mikasuki language Tailoring | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annie Jimmie interview
- Date
- 1982-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Born in the Everglades and 74 years old at the time of the interview, Jimmie (through interpreter Jumper) discusses designing and making Seminole skirts and other garmets. Jimmie describes the Seminole words for "design," "skirt" and "top," and talks about the cross design on her skirt, other types of skirt designs, sewing with strips of colorful cloth, rick-rac, teaching her children and grandchildren the craft, and men in the tribe who sew, like Jimmie Osceola. In addition, she discusses the Green Corn Dance, playing the stickball game, women hunters, gardening, singing Christian songs, learning to sew from her mother, and living in a chickee.
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Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork | Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork | Still Image | Seminole Indians Native Americans Indian reservations Sewing Patchwork Textile arts Design Domestic arts Material culture Equipment, domestic arts Demonstrations Needlework Textiles Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- Thirty-eight color slides. Images taken at the Hollywood reservation library. The images were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other with traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes may be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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Artie Miller making sails | Artie Miller making sails | Still Image | Sailmakers Fieldwork Occupational groups Workplace Sails Material culture Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artie Miller making sails
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Three color slides. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Artist Guy Le Bree | Artist Guy Le Bree | Still Image | Fieldwork Portraits Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables | Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables | Still Image | Festivals Folklore revival festivals Folk festivals Fruit Vegetable carving Vegetables Plants Decorative arts Arts, Asian Asian Americans Thai Americans Artisans Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables
- Date
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of artist Pam Maneeratara's carved fruit and vegetables. Csllerd kae Sa Luk. This is a 700-reay old craft taught to school girls in learning culinary skills. The usal motifs is floral. She uses a bird's beak knife, specially ordered from Thailand. She is not pictured. Pam's mother was the cook for Bahn Thai, a family-owned restaurant in Tallahassee.
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Artwork by Pharaoh Baker | Artwork by Pharaoh Baker | Still Image | Painters Sculptors Fieldwork Painting Art Decorative arts African Americans Material culture Sculpture Figurines Metal craft Metal sculpture Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artwork by Pharaoh Baker
- Date
- 1987-10
- Description
- Thirty color slides. Baker, whose first painting was a copy of a church hand fan for which he was paid five dollars when he a child, studied art at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. He worked for years as a professional sign painter in Lake City and made emotionally charged and religiously influenced paintings and sculptures on the side. Folklorist Blanton Owen has described his work as 'blues on canvas'. Baker died in 2002. For an interview with Baker, S1576, box 11, C84-2. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Basket maker Clara Harris | Basket maker Clara Harris | Still Image | Baskets Containers Material culture Basket making Craft Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Basket maker Mary Mourey | Basket maker Mary Mourey | Still Image | Basket maker Material culture Craft Baskets Containers Woven goods Basket making Design Weaving Pine needle crafts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Basket maker Mary Mourey
- Date
- 1986-03
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. Created as research for the Craft Demonstration Area of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. 1162 - 1179: Mourey making baskets in front of her mobile home; 1180 - 1185: examples of her pineneedle baskets.
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Basket maker Troy Thompson at the Craft Sales Area | Basket maker Troy Thompson at the Craft Sales Area | Still Image | Material culture Baskets Craft Containers Woven goods Basket making Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |