| Fly-tying workshop | Fly-tying workshop | Still Image | Artisans
Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Workplace
Fly fishing
Material culture
Workers
Fishing tackle
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Fishing lures | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fly-tying workshop
- Date
- 1987-08
- Description
- Six 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.
- Collection
| Gloria Cypress doing beadwork | Gloria Cypress doing beadwork | Still Image | Artisans
Fieldwork
Material culture
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Beadwork
Decorative arts
Craft
Indian reservations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Gloria Cypress doing beadwork
- Date
- 1987-09
- Description
- Four color slides. Images are dark. Cypress was the sister of Billy Cypress, at the time the chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe. Her father was a Seminole from Big Cypress Reservation, but her mother was Miccosukee. Raised in Miami, she moved to the reservation at age 12. 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.
- Collection
| Ukranian embroidery | Ukranian embroidery | Still Image | Embroiderers
Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Material culture
Arts, Ukrainian
Ukrainian Americans
Embroidery
Textile arts
Needlework
Decorative arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ukranian embroidery
- Date
- 1987-09
- Description
- Ten 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-141 | Juan "Bolito" Landa interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Musical comedy
Blackface entertainers
Performing arts
Theatrical makeup
Drama
Comedy
Vaudeville
Cuban musical theatre
Interviews
Oral histories
Actors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Juan "Bolito" Landa interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-08-19
- Description
- One reel-to-reel. Landa, an actor with Miami's Pro Teatro Cubano, discusses bufo theater, a ribald and satirical form of Cuban musical theater with stock figures imitating stereotypes. Bufo theater was often performed in Havana before Fidel Castro came to power. Landa discusses playing the stock character of "El Negrito," a trickster figure who worked for Gallego, a Spanish businessman. He discusses the origins of bufo theater, types of bufo characters and audiences, various bufo performers and playwrights, and bufo actors and productions in Miami. For more of Landa and Pro Teatro Cubano, see S1577, v. 43, S87-1015 - S87-1026. For an interview with other bufo performers, see reel T85-142.
- Collection
| Bufo theater performing Juan (Bolito) Landa applying blackface | Bufo theater performing Juan (Bolito) Landa applying blackface | Still Image | Fieldwork
Cosmetics
Blackface entertainers
Minstrel shows
Theatrical makeup
Theater
Comedy
Entertainment
Performing arts
Vaudeville
Actors
Entertainers
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bufo theater performing Juan (Bolito) Landa applying blackface
- Date
- 1985-07-28
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Juan (Bolito) Landa was an actor at Miami's Pro Teatro Cubano, which presents bufo theater productions (Cuban vaudeville/satirical comedies). Bufo theater was often performed in Havana before Fidel Castro came to power. The character Landa played was El Negrito, a trickster figure who worked for Gallego, a Spanish businessman. For more of Landa and Pro Teatro Cubano, see S1577, v. 43, S87-1027 - S87-1043. For an interview with Landa, see S 1576, reel T85-141. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company | Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company | Still Image | Fieldwork
Tobacco
Workers
Workplace
Cigar industry
Cigar making
Cigars
Labor
Latinos
Cigar makers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company
- Date
- 1985-07-16
- Description
- Five color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Columbia Festival | Columbia Festival | Still Image | Fieldwork
Wood carving
Figurines
Material culture
Decorative arts
Decoration and ornament
Art
Festivals
Special events
Latinos
Painting
Wood carvers
Artisans
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Columbia Festival
- Date
- 1985-07-20
- Description
- Twenty-one color slides. Images of the Columbia Festival in Miami. Includes eight slides of Orta's wood carvings and three slides of Bustos' paintings. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work | Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work | Still Image | Fieldwork
Latinos
Cuban Americans
Cooking and dining
Desserts
Cake
Food industry and trade
Food preparation
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work
- Date
- 1985-07-30
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of Rodrigues and Grass cooking. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Cuban decorative iron work | Cuban decorative iron work | Still Image | Fieldwork
Metal craft
Decorative arts
Ironwork
Material culture
Welders (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cuban decorative iron work
- Date
- 1985-07-30
- Description
- Five color slides. Examples of decorative iron work. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Cuban floor tile making | Cuban floor tile making | Still Image | Fieldwork
Latinos
Cuban Americans
Tiles
Material culture
Flooring, tile
Workers
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cuban floor tile making
- Date
- 1985-07-30
- Description
- Three color slides. Workers making Cuban floor tiles. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
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