| Scenes of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3) | Scenes of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3) | Moving Image | Guitarist
Musicians
Cooks
Singers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Guitar music
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
Religious songs
Seminole Indians
Seminole cookery
Bread
Chickee
Clans
Native Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Scenes of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3)
- Date
- 1987-05
- Description
- One video recording. Seminole Indian crafts: sewing, cooking (Hope Wilcox making Fry Bread), basketmaking (Linda Beletso), chickee construction (Danny Wilcox), Seminole clan system (explained by Freddy); Gospel Workshop with The Bells of Joy and Tom Walton of St. Pete and Family (Fruit rap, "How Great Thou Art", "Amazing Grace").
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-118 | Interview with Linda and Paul Bowers | Sound | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Interviews
Oral histories
Patchwork
Festivals
Sewing
Indian reservations
Food habits
Mikasuki language
Chickee
Alligators
Food preparation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Linda and Paul Bowers
- Date
- 1981-10-24
- Description
- Two reel to reels. (Copied onto audio cassettes C81-89 and C81-90.) The Bowers discuss sewing machines; patchwork; how they learned to sew traditional Seminole patterns; designs; clothing; life in Big Cypress Seminole Indian reservation; sofke; fry bread; native languages; chickees; the Green Corn Dance; male initiation rites; and cooking/eating alligators. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-053 | Interview with Seminole basketmaker Marian Bowers | Sound | Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sweetgrass baskets
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants
Chickee
Basket maker
Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Seminole basketmaker Marian Bowers
- Date
- 1981-11-20
- Description
- One reel to reel. Bowers discusses 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); and the basketry process. She also discusses chickees and the uses of the baskets. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-046 | Interview with Seminole needleworker Lottie Huff | Sound | Needleworkers
Tailors
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Patchwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sewing
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Chickee
Clothing and dress
Beliefs and cultures | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Seminole needleworker Lottie Huff
- Date
- 1982-01-29
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Huff discusses (through Hall) patchwork sewing including when and how she learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and fabrics; clothing styles; patchwork designs; and sewing machines. She also describes her childhood; her family; chickees; childhood stories; glass beads; the Green Corn Dance; and differences between Creek and Seminole peoples. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1680_02_tape08 | Mary Frances Johns making Seminole dolls | Sound | Dollmakers
Fieldwork
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Interviews
Dollmaking
Dolls
Oral histories
Native Americans
Life histories
Toys
Decorative arts
Oral narratives
Interviewing
Food preparation
Cooking and dining
Chickee | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Mary Frances Johns making Seminole dolls
- Date
- 1989-03-22
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with Johns about Seminole dollmaking. But she also talks about growing up on the Tamiami Trail, living in a chickee, the foodways of her family, patchwork, education, basketmaking, and her family history. For images of Johns, and the interview, see S 1680 box 1, fodlers 1 and 2.
- Collection
| Details of chickee construction | Details of chickee construction | Still Image | Fieldwork
Ranches
Chickee
Thatch roofs
Architecture
Structures
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Buildings
Woodwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Details of chickee construction
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Eight black and white prints. Details of a Seminole chickee. Images taken at Scott Ranch, north of Lake Okeechobee -- site of a Green Corn Dance ceremony.
- Collection
| Fieldwork images of the Jumpers' home at Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Fieldwork images of the Jumpers' home at Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Still Image | Needleworkers
Cooks
Fieldwork
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Seminole cookery
Native Americans
Ball games
Recreation
Leisure
Games
Machine sewing
Patchwork
Sewing machines
Sewing
Needlework
Chickee
Mobile homes
Architecture
Domestic arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Folk singer Don Grooms performing at the 8th Annual American Indian Days (1987) | Folk singer Don Grooms performing at the 8th Annual American Indian Days (1987) | Still Image | Singers
Guitarist
Fieldwork
Indian reservations
Chickee
Guitar
Bass guitars
Folk singers
Native Americans
Singing
Guitarists
Children
Festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folk singer Don Grooms performing at the 8th Annual American Indian Days (1987)
- Date
- 1987-11-22
- Description
- One color print. Grooms, born in Waynesville, North Caroline to a Applachian/Cherokee family, was an associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Florida (1962-1993). He was also news director for WUFT-TV. He was better known, however, for his songwriting and folk festival performances. A part of the Florida Folk scene of the 1960s and 1970s, he regularly performed with McLean, Gamble Rogers, Paul Champion, and Jim Ballew. He died 30 January 1998.
- Collection
| Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower | Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower | Still Image | Interviewing
Research methods
Fieldwork
Chickee
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Native Americans
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower
- Date
- 1984-05-26
- Description
- One proof sheet with ten images (plus negatives). Loomis interviews Bower inside a chickee--a traditional Seminole home/dwelling. For an interview with Bower, see S 1576, box 21, reel T81-118/119, from 1981. 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 until 2003.
- Collection
| Grass baskets at the Immokalee Seminole Reservation | Grass baskets at the Immokalee Seminole Reservation | Still Image | Basket maker
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Community
Baskets
Sweetgrass baskets
Native Americans
Containers
Contests
Material culture
Grass weaving
Palmetto weaving
Woven goods
Indian reservations
Chickee
Architecture
Community planning | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Grass baskets at the Immokalee Seminole Reservation
- Date
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images taken as part of the Seminole Slide and Tape Project at Immokalee Reservation, located in Everglades, Florida. Slides are numbered 21-33. The Immokalee reservation was created in the 1930s, and is one of five Seminole reservations in Florida. 21-23: Construction of a chickee (traditional Seminole home); 24-33: Grass baskets created by Donna Frank. Slide log sheet included.
- Collection
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