| a_s1618_04_tape24 | William Christopher interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
African Americans
Fishing nets
Seafood
Fish markets
Fishing equipment
Belief systems
Occupational folklore
Commercial fishing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
William Christopher interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-06-26
- Description
- One audio cassette. A lifelong Jacksonville resident, Christopher discusses commercial fishing. Topics include his job at Lewis and Sons Fish Market; fish catching methods; gill nets; drag nets; hoop nets; fishing seasons; local boatbuilding; fish cooking; fishing superstitions; and the future of fishing.
- Collection
| a_s2034_04_cd03-119 | Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11) | Sound | Musicians
Singers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
African Americans
Cuban Americans
Santeria
Beliefs and cultures
Belief systems
Orishas | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t87-087 | Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Maritime life
Seafood industry
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Weather
Belief systems
Oral narratives
Beliefs and cultures
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)
- Date
- 1987-05-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Weather Beliefs in the Fishing Industry workshop: Commerical fishers (Taylor from Bradenton, Mora from Cortez, and Bennett from Welatka) discussed superstitutions, beliefs, and methods of predicitng maritime weather. The folklife area in 1987 focused on Maritime folklife, which stemmed from Taylor's work on the 1986 Maritime Heritage Project, and cooperative project between the FFP and the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t87-073 | Saturday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Maritime life
Seafood industry
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Weather
Belief systems
Oral narratives
Beliefs and cultures
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1987-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Weather Beliefs in the Fishing Industry Workshop: Commerical fishers (Buzier from Apalachicola, Noles from Crescent City, and Singleton from Mayport) discussed superstitutions, beliefs, and methods of predicitng maritime weather. The folklife area in 1987 focused on Maritime folklife, which stemmed from Taylor's work on the 1986 Maritime Heritage Project, and cooperative project between the FFP and the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| Santeria Botanica store front in Miami | Santeria Botanica store front in Miami | Still Image | Stores, retail
Specialty stores
Religion
Santeria
Mysticism
Belief systems
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Santeria Botanica store front in Miami
- Date
- Description
- Two black and white prints. Santeria Botanica's storefront -- a place where believers in Santeria can buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a Cuban version of the Yoruba religion. 3 August 1979 See also S 1577, box 16, folder 134.
- Collection
| a_s1618_04_tape20 | Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Merchants
Field recordings
Folk art
Decorative arts
Crafts
Indian Americans
Rice
Belief systems
Grocery stores
Interviews
Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-08-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Prema grew up in Madras, India and moved to the US in 1975. She and her husband run an Asian grocery store. Kumar discusses growing up in India; life in the USA; running an Asian grocery store; Kolam: designs, origins, process, and uses of; Shankaranth (sun worship); other Indian arts; needlework; fabric painting; traditions at the Jacksonville Indian Community; Hinduism; and Indian diversity. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form. It consists of patterns and design created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder.
- Collection
| a_s1592_06_tape16 | Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Netmaking
Nets
Fishing nets
Occupational groups
Textile arts
Maritime life
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Family history
Weather
Ethnometeorology
Beliefs and cultures
Belief systems
Occupational folklore
Shrimpers (persons)
Boats
Hurricanes
Net maker
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier
- Date
- 1986-11-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Buzier at his netmaking shop by Taylor and Hepburn. He discusses his father as a fisher and shrimper; family history; learning the fishing trade; shrimping; clamming; hurricanes; oystering; local businesses; George Kirvin; recreation activities of fishers; oyster canning; Apalachicola life; learning to make nets; net making tools and methods; shrimp trawls; net mending; weather folklore; superstitions; and netmakers like Billy Burbank. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-155 | Gospel Workshop in Miami | Sound | Folklorists
Singers
Musical groups
Workshops (Adult education)
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
African Americans
Interviews
Libraries
Singing
A capella singers
Personal experience narratives
A capella singing
Religious music
Belief systems
Christianity
Religion
Music performance
Performing arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Gospel Workshop in Miami
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Workshop on African American gospel music, led by folklorist Loomis. Included musical performances by the Spiritual Harmonizers and Walter Richardson and Company, as well as lectures, and audience questions. The recordings do have speed problems, especially at the end of T85-156.
- Collection
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