| Four Corners of the Earth | Four Corners of the Earth | Moving Image | Video recording
Documentary videos
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Indian reservations
Fieldwork (educational method)
Interviews
Interviewing on television
Oral narratives
Oral communication | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Four Corners of the Earth
- Date
- 1983
- Description
- One video recording. (3/4 tape; 27:40 minutes) Jeannette Cypress narrated. Produced by Bulger and directed by Mike Dunn. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984 and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Sound recordings of the interviews can be found in S 1576, T84-111 - T84-133 and C84-108 - C84-115. Images can be found in S 1577, volume 23. The video can also be viewed online on the Folkstreams web page at http://www.folkstreams.net/film,139
- Collection
| a_s1576_01_c77-025 | Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview | Sound | Interviews
Crafts industry
Minorcans
Fishing nets
Netmaking
Hat making
Local history
Palmetto
Weaving
Florida history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview
- Date
- 1977-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Difficult to hear. On side one, interview of Ada Mickler of St. Augustine, Florida, in the laundromat where she works. Mickler talks about cast nets, palmetto hats, Spanish drawnwork. Followed by interview of Jean Waldron (with her sister Libby) on palmetto and palm fans, quilts and White Springs history. Tape recorder malfunctions at the end of side one. Interview continues on side two.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker
Needleworkers
Dollmakers
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sweetgrass baskets
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings 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 on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_14_c84-090 | Buddy Maddox program | Sound | Blacksmiths
Turpentiners
Net maker
Libraries
Life histories
Oral histories
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Turpentine industry workers
Turpentining
Blacksmithing
Net makers
Fishing nets
Maritime life
Florida history
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Buddy Maddox program
- Date
- 1984-03-31
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Public program for NEH Library Grant: Turpentining, Blacksmithing, Castnet Making Buddy Maddox talks of growing up in the turpentining business with his father; his schooling; his marriage; working the ferry with his father; turpentine forests; blacksmithing career; cast net making; fishing.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-045 | Classic Country and the Suwannee River Five performing at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
String bands
Stringband music
Old time music
Country music
Bluegrass music
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_13_c84-046 | Classic Country, Frank Mitchell, Community Revival Center, and Shorty Bedenbaugh performing at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
String bands
Stringband music
Old time music
Country music
Bluegrass music
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Singers
Shoe shiners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_13_c84-048 | Classic Country, Suwannee River Five, and Linda Waldron performing at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
String bands
Stringband music
Old time music
Country music
Bluegrass music
Clogging
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_14_c84-092 | Humble Servants Gospel Singers performing | Sound | Libraries
Performing arts
African Americans
Music performance
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
Religious songs
Religious music
Piano music
Singers
Pianists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Humble Servants Gospel Singers performing
- Date
- 1984-03-31
- Description
- One audio cassette. The sound quality on the tape is poor. For images of the group performing, see S 1577, v. 22. The group sang to an accompanying piano.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t84-123 | Interview with Agnes Cypress | Sound | Healer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Oral histories
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Mikasuki language
Alternative medicine
Medicine
Natural medicine | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Agnes Cypress
- Date
- 1984-03-27
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Agnes was the daughter of Seminole Susie Billie, a medicine woman. She discusses medicine; medical treatment on reservations; learning traditional medicine; Green Corn Dance; role of women in medicine; dreams; burial practices; various cures; hair styles; Mikasuki language; and crafts. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
- Collection
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