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David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Date: 1985-02-21
Description: One audio cassette. Bennett was a fiddler and folklorist. He wrote his Master's thesis at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in 1940: A Study in Fiddle Tunes From Western North Carolina. In the interview, Bennett discusses his research, fellow bluegrass and old-time musicians, and recording various musicians.
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David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Douglas Thompson interview

Date: 1983-12-09
Description: One audio cassette. NOTE: The audio is very poor for Thompson (interviewer Owen is clear.) Thompson, one-time foreman for the El Maximo Ranch (starting in 1938), discusses ranching; the use of dogs and whips; changes to the industry over the 20th Century; Seminole ranching; tick eradication and cattle vats; effects of fencing; cow camps; cattle drives; encroachment by the citrus industry on the land; and rodeos. For another interview, see S 1576, C84-7. For images, see S 1577, v. 32. Interview conducted as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program.
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Douglas Thompson interview

Date: 1984-02-16
Description: One audio cassette. Thompson, one-time foreman for the El Maximo Ranch (starting in 1938), discusses cattle ranching; disease control measures such as cattle dipping (for tick fever and screwworm); cattle raising; work conditions; race and gender in ranching; typical day on a ranch; food and housing on ranches; branding and marking; pasture improvements; rodeos; and use of the term cowboys. For another interview, see S 1576, C83-139. For images, see S 1577, v. 32. Interview conducted as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program.
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Douglas Thompson interview

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.
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Margaret Cypress interview

Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Date: 1985-01-26
Description: One reel-to-reel recording.
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Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Date: 1984-01-12
Description: One audio cassette. Baker served as a master artist to apprentice Wright in the 1984-1985 apprenticeship program. In the interview, they discuss learning painting; where they paint; subjects and inspirations; influences (Picasso, Van Gogh, El Greco); sculpture; African American culture; the goals of an artist; various mediums; and art perspectives. 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.
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Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Date: 1985-01-18
Description: One audio cassette. Jeanette Cypress translates for Billie. Billie discusses Seminole healing practices, including gathering herbs, preparing cures, gender and medicine, physical and spritutal healing, payment methods, medicine songs, and gathering herbs. She also discusses Seminole naming practices and clans. Billie served as a master artist to apprentice Agnes Cypress.
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Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

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a_s1640_20_tape06	David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Folklore Research, theory, and methodology Fiddles String instruments Folk musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_11_c83-139	Douglas Thompson interview	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Ranching Oral narratives Occupational folklore Citrus industry	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_12_c84-007	Douglas Thompson interview	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Ranching Oral narratives Livestock industry	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
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
a_s1576_t87-001	Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna	Sound	Field recordings Music -- Performance Folk music Greek Americans Double chanter bagpipes Reed instruments	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_11_c84-002	Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program	Sound	Painters Sculptors Fieldwork African Americans Apprentices Interviews Life histories Oral histories Teaching of folklore Painting Art Sculpture Artists studios Artists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1640_20_tape01	Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program	Sound	Interviews Field recordings Indigenous peoples Seminole Indians Native Americans Complementary and alternative medicine Traditional knowledge Folk medicine Herbs Naming ceremonies Clans Medicinal plants Healers Mikasuki language Herbalists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Margaret Cypress interview

Margaret Cypress interview

Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

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David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Douglas Thompson interview

Margaret Cypress interview

Margaret Cypress interview

Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna

Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program