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.
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a_s1576_11_c83-129 | Don Utz glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey | Sound | Boat operators Excursion boats Boating Tour guides Tourism workers Jokes Occupational folklore Springs Field recordings Ecotourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_11_c83-128 | Fred Jokler glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey | Sound | Boat operators Excursion boats Boating Tour guides Tourism workers Jokes Occupational folklore Springs Field recordings Ecotourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_11_c83-130 | Joe Klotz glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey | Sound | Boat operators Excursion boats Boating Tour guides Tourism workers Jokes Occupational folklore Springs Field recordings Ecotourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Joe Klotz glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. Klotz discusses various animals on the tour, such as pea foul, giraffes, monkeys, turkeys, ostriches, meat-eating birds; zebras, camels, sheep, and spider monkeys. In addition, he talks about special diets for certain species in wildlife refuges.
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a_s1576_11_c83-131 | David Faison glass-bottom boat tour demonstration for the Big Bend Folklife Survey | Sound | Boating Excursion boats Tour guides Oral performance Jokes Occupational folklore Springs (bodies of water) Field recordings Ecotourism Storytelling Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers Field recordings Oral histories Interviews Oral narratives Native Americans Seminole Indians Dollmaking Miccosukee Indians Crafts Mikasuki language | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1980-05-10
- Description
- Two reel-to-reel tapes. T80-47 has been spliced with T80-48. Billie discusses the history of Seminole dollmaking; marketing the dolls to tourists; learning the craft from her grandmother; patchwork; sweetgrass baskets; and other crafts sold to tourists. Her daughter, Claudia John, interprets from the Mikasuki language.
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Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers Field recordings Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Native Americans Seminole Indians Dollmaking Textiles Patchwork Mikasuki language Folk dance Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1982-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Billie, through her interpreter Jumper, discusses making and selling dolls; the younger generation's interest in the Green Corn Dance; music and attendance at the Green Corn Dance; Seminole burial traditions for adults and children; inventing airboats (which were made from Model Ts); women's hairstyles; teaching children traditional crafts, traditions, and values; sewing patchwork design; and winning a prize for a doll she made.
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a_s1576_05_c81-021 | Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation | Sound | Education Interviews Indigenous peoples Seminole Indians Crafts Field recordings Dollmaking Miccosukee Indians Palmetto Toys Native Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. An educational slide-tape presentation about Seminole doll making. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. Copied onto T80-96. Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 39, tapes 16-17.
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a_s1576_05_c81-016 | Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Gospel music African Americans A capella singing Religious songs Games | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t81-070 | Marta Keen interview | Sound | Field recordings Arts, Cuban Cuban Americans Emigration and immigration Christmas Family history Oral histories Interviews Latinos Life histories Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Marta Keen interview
- Date
- 1981-08-15
- Description
- Three reel to reels. T81-70: Marta Keen, a relative of Camillo Nuñez, fled to the United States from Cuba in 1962 when she was 15 years old. She discusses how her parents sent her to America as a youth as Communism spread through Cuba; her experiences when she first arrived in Florida; the diminishment of religion in Cuba; Santeria; Camillo Nuñez's fair-skinned mother; and quince parties in the U.S. T81-71: Keen discusses Cubans' and her own reaction to Cubans who came to America on the Mariel boatlift in the 1980s; family togetherness; her religious faith and the religious faith she'd like for her children; Cuban lullabies and songs; Christmas and Christmas Eve in Cuba; and Cuban music. T81-72: Keen and Nuñez discuss their relatives' educational and professional backgrounds; their attitudes towards Haitian immigrants; painting; and acquiring American traditions while retaining their native Cuban culture as well. Copied onto C81-41, C81-42 & C81-43.
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