a_s1576_63_c96-056 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 9) | Sound | Archaeologists Dancers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Life histories Nicaraguan Americans Latinos Music Latin America Archaeology Florida history Occupational groups Dance Beliefs and cultures Occupational folklore Arts, Nicaraguan Anthropologists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Haitian Botanica storefront | Haitian Botanica storefront | Still Image | Fieldwork Specialty stores Stores, retail Religion Haitian Americans Community enterprise Arts, Haitian Community culture Signs (commercial) Santeria Beliefs and cultures | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Haitian Botanica storefront
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- 1985-08
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- One color slide. This was a place where believers in Santeria can buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a Cuban version of the Yoruba religion. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 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, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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a_s1576_t80-038 | Interview with an unidentified santero and Cuban immigrant Cookqui Hernandez | Sound | Santeros Healers Fieldwork Oral histories Interviews Personal experience narratives Santeria Religion Cuban Americans Latinos Religious rites Emigration and immigration Catholics Saints Santerios Purity, Ritual Specialty stores Beliefs and cultures Spanish language Health | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with an unidentified santero and Cuban immigrant Cookqui Hernandez
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- 1980-04-02
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santeria is a New World version of the African-based Yoruba religion that was combined with elements of Catholicism. Bulger interviews an unnamed Santero, a priest within the Santeria religion. They discuss the origins of the religions, various rituals and beliefs, botanicas, healing, and the roles of men and women in the religion. The interview is in Spanish, with Hernandez translating. There is also a short interview with Hernandez about emigrating to the United States from Cuba. Interview conducted for a slide/tape program on Cuban-Americans, a copy of which can be found on T80-95.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt002 | Interview with Captain Eddie Baker | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Life histories Sound recordings Oral histories Fishers Occupational groups Boats and boating Seafood gathering Family history Maritime life Maritime folklore Occupational folklore Folklore Labor African Americans Family farming Religion Beliefs and cultures World War, 1939-1945 Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Captain Eddie Baker
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- 1986-07-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Captain Eddie Baker. Born in Georgia, Baker moved to Mayport in the 1920s, and worked as a captain for several fish houses. He discusses growing up around fishing and farming; farming techniques; learning the trade; recreational fishing; eating and cooking fish; skippering shrimp boats; economic aspects of shrimping; immigrant fishers in Mayport; regulations of fishing; World War II in Florida; bait; weather lore; superstitions and folklore; dangers of shrimping; and race relations. 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.
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a_s1576_t84-120 | Interview with Carol Cypress | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Native Americans Politics and culture Stick ball Ball games Leisure Indian Americans Food preparation Food habits Material culture Family history Bingo Education Sewing Religion Beliefs and cultures Women | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Carol Cypress
- Date
- 1983-08-10
- Description
- Three reel to reels (also copied onto C84-112/114). Cypress talks about Seminole culture. She discusses the role of television; Mikasuki language; the effect of drainage canals on leisure activities; air conditioning; healers; marriages; parental discipline; food such as sofke and coontie palm; stick ball game; influence of Western society upon Seminole culture; education; drug use on reservations; lullabies; traditional songs; and basket making. 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_t81-084 | Interview with David Motlow | Sound | Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Florida history Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Mikasuki language Oral histories Life histories Beliefs and cultures Basket maker Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with David Motlow
- Date
- 1981-09-01
- Description
- Two reel to reels. (Copied onto C81-55 and C81-56.) Interview with Seminole cultural program administrator Motlow about Seminole heritage and history. They discuss Seminole folklore; tribal healers; teaching heritage to new generations; differences between Mikasuki (Miccosukee) and Seminoles; patchwork; doll making; and native languages (Muskogee and Miccosukee). Also includes the start of an interview with Jim Billie. 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_06_c82-001 | Interview with Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Dr. Helen Safa | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Latinos Universities and colleges Universities and colleges Faculty Emigration and immigration Spanish language Holidays and festivals Haitian Americans Cuban Americans Puerto Ricans Mexican Americans Beliefs and cultures Politics and culture Florida history Executives Educators College teachers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Dr. Helen Safa
- Date
- 1982-06-28
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. (Copy can be found in S 1576, box 39, tape 31.) Safa was director of the Center of Latin American Studies, 1980-1985. A Columbia University graduate, Safa taught at UF until 1997. She has written extensively about gender and Latin America. In the interview she discusses Latin American influences on Florida and its culture. Side 1 (C82-1): Safa discusses "quince" celebrations, godparents, New Year's Traditions, the close relationship between Florida and the Caribbean, the history of Caribbean immigration in the U.S. and Florida; and modern-day Cuban, Haitian, and Puerto-Rican immigration. Also, Safa presents a historical sketch of Caribbean cultures; Chango, Santeria, and Voodoo religions in Caribbean culture. Side 2 (C82-1): Safa discusses cultural assimilation amongst Caribbean immigrants in the U.S.; rites of passage and celebrations used to reaffirm group identity; "Quinces;" the outlawing of Santeria and other religions in Cuba after the revolution; different US immigrant groups' identification with their Caribbean heritages, like in New York and Miami. Side 1 (C82-2): Safa compares Miami's cultural assimilation when compared with countries like China and India; Cuban immigrants in Florida who immigrated to the US before the 1960s, during Battista's governance; studies on the Mariel boatlift; and Cuban Mafia groups who moved to Florida after Castro's takeover and their role in Florida's exile anti-Castro organizations. She also talks about the importance of retaining traditions for immigrants; the political and economic crises in Caribbean countries; and the immigrants' viewpoints on America.
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a_s1576_t84-127 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food | Sound | Fieldwork Documentary videos Interviews Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Native Americans Food preparation Cooking and dining Demonstrations Seminole cookery Corn Bread Fireplaces Fire Religious rites Cypress Oak Pots Storytelling Clans Cookware Cookery (Corn) Boiling (Cookery) Beliefs and cultures Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Three reel to reels. Santiago discuss and demonstrates Seminole cooking. She discusses fry bread, sofkee, clan systems, proper creation and maintenance of log fireplaces (use cypress and oak), boiling, proper welcoming of guests, role of men and women and children in food preparation, cooking training, use of corn, cooking in different weather, use of fire, and stories/beliefs connected with cooking. 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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