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Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Date: 1985-08-13
Description: Ten color slides. Images of Caminero-Beheit demonstrating the processs in hammock making. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, she lived as a housewife and made hammocks on the side. The sample textile she made in the images can be found in S 1628, box 1, folder 10. 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.
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Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Date: 1986-05
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.
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Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Date: 1986-05-24
Description: Five color slides. For more images of Beheit, see S 1577, v. 42, S87-918 - S87-927; for interview, see S 1576, T85-143. 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.
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Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Date: 1985-08-13
Description: One reel to reel. Interview with Caminero-Beheit about hammock making. She discusses learning to make hammocks; the processes used; state of the art in Venezuela; time needed; use of hammocks; and Venezuelan children's games. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, she lived as a housewife and made hammocks on the side. For a sample textile that she made in the images can be found in S 1628, box 1, folder 10. Images of her making the sample can be found in S 1577, v. 43 S87-918 - S87-930. 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.
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Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Date: 1986-03-22
Description: 199 color slides. Sponsored by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the festival was held at the Metro-Dade Cultural Center. The festival consisted of folk demonstrations, food booths, workshops, and musical performances. Cultures and folkways exhibited included Mexican, Venezuelan, Haitian. Jamaican, Cuban, African American, and Jewish. Many of these images have been described in more detail elsewhere in the database. In 1987, the name of the festival was changed to the Traditions Festival.
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Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

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Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making	Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making	Still Image	Fieldwork Venezuelan Americans Textile arts Textiles Weaving Craft Hammocks Demonstrations Weavers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop	Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Demonstrations Games Folklore Special events Teaching of folklore Latinos Venezuelan Americans Workshops (Adult education) Children Students	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit	Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Demonstrations Craft Material culture Special events Hammocks Latinos Venezuelan Americans Textile arts Needlework Weavers Needleworkers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t85-143	Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit	Sound	Weavers Fieldwork Sound recordings Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Hammocks Venezuelan Americans Craft Textile arts Games	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)	Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)	Still Image	Fieldwork Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Demonstrations Folklife Concerts Music performance Craft Latinos Arts, Mexican Haitian Americans Jamaican Americans African Americans Mexican Americans Jewish Americans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

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Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Mingly Caminero-Beheit demonstrating hammock making

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the1986 Florida Folk Festival: Andres Beheit leading children's workshop

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: hammock maker Mingley Beheit

Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Interview with hammock maker Mingly Caminero-Beheit

Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)