24 items found
Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Tradition Bearer is exactly "Johns, Mary Frances, 1944-2004"
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Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Date
1997-05-23
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT).
Collection
Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Date
1998-05-23
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Between 6:00 and 7:00, the Florida Folklife Program presented that year's participants in the apprenticeship program. For more information, see the web page:

http://www.flheritage.com/preservation/folklife/apprenticeship/index.cfm

Price and Colledge apprenticed under Irish fiddler Kelly; and Phillips apprenticed under steel drum musician Kernanhan.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Date
2000-05-26
Description
One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. Sammy Snell continues from C00-66 discussing swamp buggies. Mary Johns discusses Seminole patchwork, growing up in the swamps, dug-out canoes and herbal medicine.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)

Date
2000-05-26
Description
One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. Mary Johns continues from C00-67 discussing Seminole culture, Seminole-Miccosukee differences, early schooling and herbal medicine.
Collection
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)

Date
1996-05-24
Description
One audio cassette tape.
Collection
Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)

Date
1997-05-23
Description
One audio cassette recordings. Mary Johns, a Seminole artist interviewed by John D'Agostino, discusses traditional Seminole folk stories - specifically creation myths.
Collection
Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Date
1995-01
Description
16 color slides. Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
Collection
Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Date
1995
Description
One proof sheet with 35 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
Collection
Interview with Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Interview with Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns

Date
1995-01-25
Description
Two audio cassettes. Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
Collection
Mary Frances Johns making Seminole dolls

Mary Frances Johns making Seminole dolls

Date
1989-03-23
Description
Twenty-five color slides. Images of Johns making her dolls (chickees visible in the background). There are also several images of her dolls. Finally, there are couple of images of folkorist Nusz interviewing Johns. For a recording of that interview, see S 1680 box 2, tape 8.
Collection
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_76_d97-001Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)SoundSingers
Guitarist
Musicians
Dancers
Storytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Steel guitars
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel musicians
Religious songs
African Americans
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Dance music
Folk dance
Marimba
Maya arts
Mayans
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Animal tales
Storytelling
Seminole Indians
Oral performance
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a_s1576_77_d98-004Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Polka music
Fiddle music
Fiddling
Trinidadians
Steel drum (Musical instrument)
Drum music
Drum performance
Music, Hawaii
Irish Americans
Arts, Irish
Reels
Singers
Musicians
Fiddlers
Storytellers
Apprentices
Bands (Music)
Drummers (Musicians)
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a_s1576_82_c00-067Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)SoundCarvers (Decorative artists)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Patchwork
Canoes
Life histories
Hunting
Hunting Equipment and supplies
Hunting stories
Hunters
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a_s1576_82_c00-068Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Education
Life histories
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a_s1576_65_c96-103Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)SoundStorytellers
Guitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Tales
Oral narratives
Steel guitars
Country music
Musicians
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a_s1576_67_c97-066Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)SoundStorytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Seminole Indians
Art
Storytelling
Tales
Native Americans
Creation Mythology
Artists
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Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary JohnsImages of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary JohnsStill ImageFieldwork
Apprentices
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Native Americans
Health
Elderly, the
Healers
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Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary JohnsImages of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary JohnsStill ImageFieldwork
Apprentices
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Native Americans
Health
Elderly, the
Healers
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a_s1640_25_tape07Interview with Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary JohnsSoundFieldwork
Apprentices
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Native Americans
Health
Elderly, the
Healers
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Mary Frances Johns making Seminole dollsMary Frances Johns making Seminole dollsStill ImageDollmakers
Fieldwork
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Indian reservations
Dollmaking
Dolls
Figurines
Native Americans
Material culture
Toys
Decorative arts
Folklorists
Interviewing
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