| a_s1640_20_tape08 | Interview with Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito | Sound | Artisans
Paper art
Paper work
Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Arts, Asian
Temari
Origami
Japanese Americans
Needlework
Craft
Interviews
Decorative arts
Life histories
Family history
Emigration and immigration
Dollmaking | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito
- Date
- 1985-02-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with master folk artist Kasuko Law and her daughter (and apprentice) Chieri. They discuss family history and life in Japan and China (Law's father supplied the Japanse Army during the second world war); immigration to the United States in 1952; the uses of, designs for, and processes in temari making; origami; doll making; and learning and teaching temari and origami. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. For a transcript of the interview, see S 1640, Box 2, folder 13. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Still Image | Artisans
Paper art
Paper work
Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Arts, Asian
Temari
Origami
Japanese Americans
Needlework
Craft
Material culture
Decorative arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari
- Date
- 1985-04
- Description
- One proof sheet with twenty-one black and white images (plus negatives). Espasito, daughter to master folk artist Kasuko Law, making temari with Law. She served as apprentice to Law in 1984-1985. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary | Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary | Moving Image | Artisans
Musical instrument maker
Video recording
Documentary videos
Fieldwork
Interviewing on television
Demonstrations
Craft
Music performance
Interviews
Emigration and immigration
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Instrument manufacture
Tsabouna
Bagpipe music
Bagpipes
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
Songs, Greek
Calendar rites
New Year rites
Epiphany
Catholics
Bagpipers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Rough edits for the Every Island Has Its Own Song documentary
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Six video recordings. (Beta; 20 minutes each) Early edit tapes for the documentary "Every Island Has Its Own Song," a Florida Folklife Program-produced documentary on tsabouna (Greek bagpipe) maker-player Nikitas Tsimouris and the Greek community of Tarpon Springs. Includes interviews with Tsimouris and his family, performance on the tsabouna, local sponge boats, an Epiphany Day celebration, and the Tsimoruis family at home. The tapes have gaps for narration, insert shots, and other post-production elements. For the completed documentary, see FV-112. For the original fieldwork videos, see FV-1 through FV-17 in S 1615.
- Collection
| Tony Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making diving helmets | Tony Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making diving helmets | Still Image | Artisans
Fieldwork
Diving
Sponge divers
Sponge fisheries
Helmets
Metal craft
Apprentices
Workshops | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Tony Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making diving helmets
- Date
- 1985-07
- Description
- Two proof sheets with 46 images (plus negatives). The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
- Collection
| Nikitas Tsimouris performing at Greek ceremony in Tarpon Springs | Nikitas Tsimouris performing at Greek ceremony in Tarpon Springs | Still Image | Bagpipers
Musical instruments
Performers
Music
Arts, Greek
Tsabouna
Special events
Rites and ceremonies
Bagpipes
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Nikitas Tsimouris performing at Greek ceremony in Tarpon Springs
- Date
- 1988-01
- Description
- 72 color slides. Eleven slides of Nikitas Tsimouris performing at a Tarpon Springs Greek ceremony. Eighteen slides of tsimouris making a tsabauna, a traditional Greek musical instrument made of sheepskin. It is sometimes referred to as the Greek shepherd's bag pipe. The remaining slides are various images of the ceremony.
- Collection
| Nikitas Tsimouris playing the tsabauna at his home | Nikitas Tsimouris playing the tsabauna at his home | Still Image | Bagpipers
Musical instruments
Performing arts
Music
Material culture
Arts, Greek
Tsabouna
Bagpipes
Greek Americans
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Nikitas Tsimouris playing the tsabauna at his home
- Date
- 1985-02
- Description
- Eight black and white negatives. The Tsabauna was a Greek musical instrument made out of sheep skin. It is sometimes referred to as the Greek shepherd's bag pipe. The images were taken at his home in Tarpon Springs. Tsimouris first moved to Tarpon Springs from Greece in 1968. Also includes two 8 x 10 black and white prints, and two 4 x 6 color prints of the same images.
- Collection
| Ethel Santiago teaching Margaret Cypress sweetgrass basket making | Ethel Santiago teaching Margaret Cypress sweetgrass basket making | Still Image | Basket maker
Apprentices
Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Basket making
Sweetgrass baskets
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Material culture
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ethel Santiago teaching Margaret Cypress sweetgrass basket making
- Date
- 1984-02
- Description
- Three proof sheets with 78 black and white images (plus negatives). Santiago and Cypress were among the first participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1983-1984. As a master folk artist, Santiago taught Cypress how to make sweetgrass baskets. Images include them gathering sweetgrass, weaving baskets, and of Owen transcribing tapes at the reservation. Traditionally, Seminoles baskets were shallow and woven from palmetto fronds. Circa 1930, sweetgrass baskets, inspired perhaps by African American arts, were designed to represent 'authentic' Seminole culture for the tourist trade. Over time, they became traditional. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen,who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was held each year until 2003.
- Collection
| Kathleen Rondeau teaching her daughter, Chanda, Irish stepdancing | Kathleen Rondeau teaching her daughter, Chanda, Irish stepdancing | Still Image | Basket maker
Apprentices
Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Stepdancing
Dance
Irish Americans
Irish dance
Dancers
Body movement | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kathleen Rondeau teaching her daughter, Chanda, Irish stepdancing
- Date
- 1984-02
- Description
- One proof sheets with thirty black and white images (plus negatives). Rondeau and her daughter Chanda were among the first participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1983-1984. As a master folk artist, Rondeau taught Chanda Irish step dancing. Rondeau, who learned stepdancing in Ireland, ran the Gaelic School of Irish Stepdancing, where the images were taken. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and had agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
- Collection
| Lucreaty Clark teaching Alfonso Jennings white oak basket making | Lucreaty Clark teaching Alfonso Jennings white oak basket making | Still Image | Basket maker
Apprentices
Teaching of folklore
Fieldwork
Basket making
White oak
African Americans
Baskets
Material culture
Basketry
Basket work
Houses
Woodwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lucreaty Clark teaching Alfonso Jennings white oak basket making
- Date
- 1984-04
- Description
- Two proof sheets with 54 black and white images (plus negatives). Clark and her grandson Jennings were among the first participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1983-1984. As a master folk artist, she taught him how to make white oak baskets. Includes images of Jennings and Clark weaving baskets and chopping white oak, and images of Jennings' home and family. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
- Collection
| a_s1576_12_c84-005 | Margaret Cypress interview | Sound | Basket making
Dolls (toys)
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Interviews
Weaving
Seminole Indians
Tribal lands
Palmetto | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Margaret Cypress interview
- Date
- 1984-01-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Cypress, a Seminole craftswoman, describes her early childhood in Florida, and at the Cherokee and Oklahoma Boarding Schools for Indians; speaking Miccosukee and learning English; early experiences with Seminole crafts such as sweetgrass basketry; learning crafts throught the apprenticeship program; marriage; working in the fields; differences between her mother's basketry and that which is done in the program; pay for her work; her family; crafts she works on such as basketry and dolls; customers for Seminole crafts from the Arts and Crafts Chickee at Immokalee Reservation; difficulty of making palmetto baskets; types of transportation she and her family used when she was young (i.e. "Everglades Bag, Everglades Suitcase", hitching train rides, airplane rides to school in Oklahoma); more on her family including her cousin Ethel, also a craftswoman; more on school and life as a young woman; her work for the Seminole Tribe Community Health Representative.
- Collection
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