48 items found
Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Beliefs and cultures"
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Water witcher Lonnie Morgan

Water witcher Lonnie Morgan
Date
1958
Description
Three black and white prints. Morgan demonstrating water witching, the search for water sources use a divination stick -- an old folk tradition.
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Water witcher Lonnie Morgan

Water witcher Lonnie Morgan
Tuesday morning performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)

Tuesday morning performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Date
1955-05-03
Description
One reel to reel. Boltin served as the emcee. See the festival program in S 1619, box 1 for more detailed information of the festival performers and activities not recorded. Reaver was a professor at Florida State University.
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Tuesday morning performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)

Tuesday morning performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
Date
1981-11-17
Description
One reel to reel. Jumper (with Judy Bill Osceola interpreting) discusses (through Osceola) basket making - - including when and how she 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 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. Copied onto audiocassette C83-34. 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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Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)

Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)
Date
1982-10
Description
One black and white print. Water witching, or dowsing, is the act of locating water sources through extrasensory perceptions, often signaled by the twitching of a piece of wood held in the hand.
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Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)

Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)
Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)
Date
2003-05-25
Description
One compact disc. Bucuvalis served as emcee. Orishas are sacred beings that represent the forces of nature. Beliefs brought to the Americas by Africans. Related to the Santeria relgiion.
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Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)
Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)
Date
1998-05-24
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). The Rondalla String Band discussed the various Filipino instruments they used as well as traditional life in the Philippines. Paat was a hula instructor. Yao played the zheng, a Chinese zither, performing several songs.
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Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)
Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)

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.
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Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)

Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)
Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy Backman

Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy Backman
Date
1985
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape) Video quality is poor. Discussion of shrimping business with Rudy and Junius Backman, including shrimping in South America and superstition; Mike Fazio discusses shrimp farming. Raw footage for the documentary, Fishing All My Days, on Fernandina's shrimping industry, produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WUFT-TV 5 of Gainesville (the local PBS station, affiliated with the University of Florida.)
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Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy Backman

Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy Backman
Shrimping Documentary - Carden Net Shop

Shrimping Documentary - Carden Net Shop
Date
Description
One video cassette. (3/4" tape) Jimmy and David Carden on netmaking, shrimping, superstitions, Vietnamese workers (Papa Tu). Raw footage for the documentary, Fishing All My Days, on Fernandina's shrimping industry, produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WUFT-TV 5 of Gainesville (the local PBS station, affiliated with the University of Florida.)
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Shrimping Documentary - Carden Net Shop

Shrimping Documentary - Carden Net Shop
Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)

Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)
Date
1996-05-25
Description
One audio cassette tape. Jose Silva continues from C96-114 with toro huaco and Mayan belief. Mary Johns explains Seminole storytelling and discusses how Native Americans tell similar stories. She tells two "Bat" stories and "The Possum". She talks about how some stories help tell the origin of anomalies and how other stories are "done on purpose".
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Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)

Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
Water witcher Lonnie MorganWater witcher Lonnie MorganStill ImageWater witcher
Demonstrations
Beliefs and cultures
Dowsing
Water witching
Divination		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t77-028Tuesday morning performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)SoundCollege teachers
Folklorists
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Oral performance
Performing arts
Beliefs and cultures
Singing
Patriotic songs
Singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t82-049Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape ProjectSoundField recordings
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Basketry
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants
Beliefs and cultures
Basket maker		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)Still ImageDowsing
Folklore
Students
Teaching of folklore
Pedagogy
Beliefs and cultures
Water witching
Divination
Magic
Dowsers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s2034_04_cd03-119Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)SoundMusicians
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_78_d98-035Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)SoundStorytellers
Musicians
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tales
Filipino Americans
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Dance
Jamaican Americans
Hula (Dance)
Beliefs and cultures
String instruments
Music performance
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Food habits
Zheng
Bands (Music)
Dancers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t87-087Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)SoundFestivals
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
Shrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy BackmanShrimping Documentary - Interview with Rudy BackmanMoving ImageFishers
Documentary videos
Interviews
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Food industry and trade
Beliefs and cultures
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Emigration and immigration
Shrimpers (persons)		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
Shrimping Documentary - Carden Net ShopShrimping Documentary - Carden Net ShopMoving ImageFishers
Net maker
Documentary videos
Interviews
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Food industry and trade
Fishing nets
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Net makers
Beliefs and cultures
Vietnamese
Shrimpers (persons)		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
a_s1576_65_c96-115Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 12)SoundSingers
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Drummers (Musicians)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Storytelling
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Oral narratives
Animal tales
Narratives
Arts, Nicaraguan
Dance
Nicaraguan Americans
Beliefs and cultures		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg