| a_s1576_t82-050 | Interview with Seminole basketmaker and needle worker Ethel Santiago | 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
Toys
Dolls
Clothing and dress
Storytelling
Tales
Basket maker
Needleworkers
Dollmakers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Seminole basketmaker and needle worker Ethel Santiago
- Date
- 1981-11-18
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Santiago 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); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the process. She also discusses doll making, patchwork, and Seminole clothing. Finally, she tells a folk tale about rabbits. 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 C83-35 and C83-36. 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_t82-052 | Interview with Seminole basketmakers Alice and Robert Osceola | Sound | Basket maker
Needleworkers
Dollmakers
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sweetgrass baskets
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Seminole basketmakers Alice and Robert Osceola
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they 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 basketry 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. 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
| Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers
Field recordings
Oral histories
Interviews
Oral narratives
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Dollmaking
Miccosukee Indians
Crafts
Mikasuki language | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1980-05-10
- Description
- Two reel-to-reel tapes. T80-47 has been spliced with T80-48. Billie discusses the history of Seminole dollmaking; marketing the dolls to tourists; learning the craft from her grandmother; patchwork; sweetgrass baskets; and other crafts sold to tourists. Her daughter, Claudia John, interprets from the Mikasuki language.
- Collection
| Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Dollmaking
Textiles
Patchwork
Mikasuki language
Folk dance
Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1982-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Billie, through her interpreter Jumper, discusses making and selling dolls; the younger generation's interest in the Green Corn Dance; music and attendance at the Green Corn Dance; Seminole burial traditions for adults and children; inventing airboats (which were made from Model Ts); women's hairstyles; teaching children traditional crafts, traditions, and values; sewing patchwork design; and winning a prize for a doll she made.
- Collection
| a_s1576_02_c78-059a | Interview with doll maker Mildred Bowen | Sound | Dollmakers
Interviews
Fieldwork
Dollmaking
Dolls
Toy making
Toys
Decorative arts
Life histories
Material culture
Textile arts
Sewing
Sewing machines | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with doll maker Mildred Bowen
- Date
- 1978-05-19
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Mildred Bowen, who started sewing and making dolls when she was ten years old, discusses the types of dolls she makes (straight, flip, bodyline), the materials she uses (usually cotton), and detailing and decorating the dolls. Side 2: Bowen talks about the advantages of machine sewing over hand sewing, the time it takes to complete a doll, painting with liquid embroidery, and discusses the benefits of homemade dolls over store-bought dolls.
- 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
| a_s1576_39_tape18 | Seminole Designs (slide and tape program) | Sound | Dollmakers
Needleworkers
Education
Interviews
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Folklife
Native Americans
Fieldwork (educational method)
Dollmaking
Decorative arts
Teaching of folklore
Demonstrations
Patchwork
Design
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Seminole Designs (slide and tape program)
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- One audio cassette (plus three duplicate copies.) An educational audio and slide program about Seminole designs. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. In the late 1970s, the FFP under the direction of Bulger created six audio and slide programs about Florida folklife for use by schools, libraries, and other organizations.
- Collection
| Basket makers and doll makers in North Florida | Basket makers and doll makers in North Florida | Still Image | Basket maker
Dollmakers
Needleworkers
Chair-makers
Fieldwork
Dolls
Toys
Basket making
Basket work
Baskets
Dogs
Teaching
Sewing
Patchwork
Chair caning
Quilts
Quilt patterns
Chairs
Domestic arts
Decorative arts
Material culture
Equipment, domestic arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Basket makers and doll makers in North Florida
- Date
- 1979-05-27
- Description
- "Twenty-four black and whites prints (all 8x10, and mounted) These images were used for an exhibit. From folder 33: 83-99 Thelma Boltin in White Springs 83-100 Delafean making a doll in Live Oak. 83-101 Evelyn Johnson with a sewing basket, Lake City 83-102 Unknown person making a melon basket in White Springs 83-103 Grace Langdale, with square dance dolls in White Springs 83-104 Unknown quilter working at the Crafts Guild in White Springs 83-105 Linda Thomas at a loom in White Springs From folder 34: 83-106 Linda Waldron with gourd head dolls in White Springs 83-107 Madge Taylor, with cross-stitch quilt, in White Springs 83-108 Mary Boorman in White Springs 83-109 Mildred Bowman, dollmaker, in Jasper 83-110 Barbara Ceryak and her basket, White Springs 83-111 Bertha Burnham with a basket of dolls in White Springs From folder 35: 83-112 Midge Boorman and her dog, Jackpot, in White Springs 83-113 Mary Boorman making dolls in White Springs 83-114 Nancy Morgan teaching patchwork sewing, White Springs 83-115 Dolls made by Bertha Burnham in White Springs 83-116 Quilt Show in White Springs 83-117 Grace Langdale and Bertha Burnham caning a chair in White Springs From folder 36: 83-118 Quilters at the Suwannee River Crafts Guild in White Springs 83-119 Louise Lord with Quilt in Live Oak 83-120 Elizabeth Maltby making a basket in White Springs 83-121 Basket maker Clara Harris in White Springs 83-122 Chair caner Agnes Henry in White Springs 83-123 Nancy Morgan with quilt in White Springs"
- Collection
| Children's Day at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | Children's Day at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Weavers
Chair-makers
Basket maker
Dollmakers
Storytellers
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Festivals
Weaving
Basket making
Basket work
Blacksmithing
Chair caning
Material culture
Demonstrations
Flutes
Musical instrument maker
Decoys
Craft
Storytelling | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Craft demonstrations at the Stephen Foster Center | Craft demonstrations at the Stephen Foster Center | Still Image | Demonstrations
Craft
Wood carving
Toys
Dollmaking
Dolls
Material culture
Embroidery
Textile arts
Dollmakers
Artisans
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Craft demonstrations at the Stephen Foster Center
- Date
- Description
- Thirty-five black and white negatives. 1-7: Pat Chase, pine needle crafts; 8-11: Carolee Jandrean, dolls; 12-14: Christine Schreier, dolls; 15-21: Margaret Horvath, Hungarian embroidery; 22-24: Greg Gage, wood craft; 25-31: Don Marshal, wood carvings; 32-35: Greg Gage.
- Collection
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