| a_s1576_t84-123 | Interview with Agnes Cypress | Sound | Healer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Oral histories
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Mikasuki language
Alternative medicine
Medicine
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Interview with Agnes Cypress
- Date
- 1984-03-27
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Agnes was the daughter of Seminole Susie Billie, a medicine woman. She discusses medicine; medical treatment on reservations; learning traditional medicine; Green Corn Dance; role of women in medicine; dreams; burial practices; various cures; hair styles; Mikasuki language; and crafts. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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| a_s1576_t84-130 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories | Sound | Healer
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Documentary videos
Interviews
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Native Americans
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Demonstrations
Natural medicine
Healers
Herbs
Flora
Plants
Fire
Religious rites
Beliefs and cultures
Animal tales
Trickster tales
Storytelling
Fables | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santiago discusses healing, medicine, gathering herbs, types of medicinal herbs used, healing training, gender roles, proper bahvior for Seminole women, trickster stories (rabbit stories), fire origin stories, the Green Corn Dance, and uses of fire. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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| a_s1576_02_c78-057 | Interview with Jamie B. Jordan | Sound | Interviews
Fieldwork
Cooking and dining
Food preparation
Food habits
Life histories
Beliefs and cultures
Fauna
Belief systems
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Domestic arts
Cooks
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Jamie B. Jordan
- Date
- 1978-05-15
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C78-57: Side 1: Jordan discusses dishes and foods indigenous to her household, central Northern Florida, and the rest of the South: rice and black-eyed peas, rice and tomatoes, mince meat pie, liver pudding, mustard greens and cornbread dumplings, sweet potato pie, and fruit cobblers. She also explains how to make hog's headcheese. In addition, she talks about preparing and eating polk salad greens, snakes, alligators, raccoon, gopher turtle, frogs' legs, etc. Side 2: Jordan talks about okra, planting by the moon and on Good Friday, Dog Days, delivering babies, home remedies, and root doctors. C78-58: Side 1: On her belief in witchcraft, her feelings on root doctors, on people poisoned and cured by witchcraft, a hurricane that hit Miami in 1927/1928, poisoning with snakes, and palm readers. In addition, Jordan discusses cures for boils, labor pains, childbirth, midwives, morning sickness, etc. Side 2: Jordan talks about her sister's illness and treatment by root doctors, her experiences at the Red Barn restaurant, and an FBI investigation on locals in her area.
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| a_s1576_t85-145 | Interview with Santeria priest Ernesto Pichardo | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Santeria
Beliefs and cultures
Religion
Alternative medicine
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Life histories
Oral histories
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Santeria priest Ernesto Pichardo
- Date
- 1985-08-15
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. Interview with Pichardo about Santeria. He discusses Santeria dancing, medicine, food, and philosophy; origins of Santeria; Santeria under Batista, Castro, and in Miami; African origins; apprenticeships; and present customs. 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, Bahaman, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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| a_s1640_20_tape04 | Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs | Sound | Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Healers
Health
Herbs
Plants
Flora
Medicine
Natural medicine
Alternative medicine
Healer
Herbalists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs
- Date
- 1985-03-28
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of Billie and Cypress identifying medicinal herbs and discussing their uses. For images of the identifications, see S 1577, v. 31. 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_s1640_20_tape02 | Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs | Sound | Healer
Herbalists
Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Alternative medicine
Medicine
Nature
Natural medicine
Herbs
Naming practices
Health
Plants
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs
- Date
- 1985-03-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of Billie and Cypress identifying medicinal herbs and discussing their uses. For images of the identifications, see S 1577, v. 31. 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.
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| a_s1576_63_c96-061 | Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Basket maker
Storytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Health
Alternative medicine
Storytelling
Belief systems
Beliefs and cultures
Family history
Herbs
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1996-05-25
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Tozzer served as emcee. Mary Johns discusses what she enjoys about Seminole culture, herbalism, Seminole stories, native language and basketry. The audience asks questions related to superstitions, rituals re: women, family life, stories and legends. She tells an excerpt from a story on Seminole migration and how they got their name. The audience asks questions about actors and speaking realistic language.
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| a_s1576_67_c97-071 | Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Needleworkers
Herbalists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Herbs
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Natural medicine
Healers
Flora
Plants
Arts, Ghanaian
African Americans
Ghanaian Americans
Needlework
Textiles
Textile arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1997-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Dr. Maude Scott, with a Ph.D in herbal study from Alabama, is interviewed by Bob Stone. She discusses her background as well as herbs and how they are good for various aspects of one's health. Her focus seems to be on homeopathic remedies. She also talks about her mentor from Alabama, Lloyd Clayton. Amma Essandoh discusses textile traditions from Ghana. She especially discusses how textile patterns and designs, what one wears, communicates things about that person's life.
- Collection
| a_s1576_64_c96-085 | Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 8) | Sound | Storytellers
Healer
Basket maker
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Natural medicine
Healers
Storytelling
Herbs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 8)
- Date
- 1996-05-26
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Tozzer served as emcee. Johns discusses Seminole traditions in storytelling, basketry and herbalism. She relates how she learned to make baskets from her grandmother and studied herbal medicine from a 100 year-old peer of her grandmother. She talks about the tribal tradition of storytelling and the way in which it relates to the hardships of their lives. She also discusses spiritual and physical healing and studying herbal medicine under Suzy Billie. She refers to several specific aspects of Seminole herbal medicine such as fat in the Seminole diet, salt in their diet and aloe. She also gives an example of herbal healing.
- Collection
| a_s1576_65_c96-128 | Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 10) | Sound | Herbalists
Pianists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Judaism
Herbs
Health
Oral performance
Alternative medicine
Natural medicine
Singing
Piano music
Cantors (Judaism)
Healers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 10)
- Date
- 1996-05-26
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Cantor Joel Fox continues from C96-127 and gives a Hebrew lesson. A cantor (Latin for "singer") is often called a hazzan in the Jewish church. This person leads the synagogue in singing. Fox was from Dallas, Texas. As a teen, his family moved to Israel. While there, Fox attended the Rubin Academy of Art and Israel Institute of Cantorial Art. From 1989 to 1992, he served in the Israel Defense Force, then moved North Florida, where he became the Jacksonville Jewish Center's cantor. He later was the cantor for Atlanta's Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Maude Scott (from Jacksonville, FL), herbalist talks about herbs, healing, nutrition and health. Specifically she discusses bayberry myrtle, Spanish moss, garlic, horseradish, fig leaves, rabbit tobacco, and life everlasting. Continues on C96-129.
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