| a_s1576_t86-253 | WPA field recordings in Mayport and Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation (March-July 1940 recording expedition) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Performing arts
Singing
Music performance
African Americans
Dance music
Tap dancers
Dancers
Shrimpers (persons)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings in Mayport and Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation (March-July 1940 recording expedition)
- Date
- 1940-06
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by FWP's folklore section between March and July 1940. A total of twenty-two 12-inch acetate records during that period. This recording includes African American shrimpers tap dancing in Mayport, and residents of Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation singing. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) - after 1939, the Works Projects Administration - was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida's FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art's Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida's WPA program by the Library of Congress' Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
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| Woodwork at Miccosukee Indian Reservation | Woodwork at Miccosukee Indian Reservation | Still Image | Woodworkers
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers
Fieldwork
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Woodwork
Decorative arts
Animals
Indian reservations
Figurines
Material culture
Workplace | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Woodwork at Miccosukee Indian Reservation
- Date
- 1987-09
- Description
- Seven color slides. Images are dark. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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| Traditional wooden spoon by John Willie at Miccosukee Indian Reservation | Traditional wooden spoon by John Willie at Miccosukee Indian Reservation | Still Image | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Woodwork
Decorative arts
Spoons
Indian reservations
Wooden spoons
Material culture
Ladles (utensils)
Implements, utensils, etc. | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Traditional wooden spoon by John Willie at Miccosukee Indian Reservation
- Date
- 1987-09
- Description
- Five color slides. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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| Tommy Jumper demonstrating Seminole foodways at the 1982 Florida Folk Festival | Tommy Jumper demonstrating Seminole foodways at the 1982 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Food habits
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Food preparation
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t82-049 | Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Field 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 |
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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| Thelma Boltin with Frank and Lottie Shore at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Thelma Boltin with Frank and Lottie Shore at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Oral communication
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Public speaking
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Orators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| The Craft Sales Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | The Craft Sales Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Demonstrations
Craft
Selling
Baskets
Woodwork
Material culture
Gourds
Painting
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Dolls
Musical instruments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| The Annual Seminole Festival | The Annual Seminole Festival | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Demonstrations
Signs and signboards
Dance
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Annual Seminole Festival
- Date
- 1988-02
- Description
- Seven color slides. Images of Seminoles performing various dances. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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| Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing | Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing | Still Image | Healer
Herbalists
Apprentices
Teaching of folklore
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Herbs
Healers
Plants
Flora
Alternative medicine
Natural medicine
Forests and forestry
Ferns
Cooking and dining | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing
- Date
- 1984-12
- Description
- Six proof sheets with 221 black and white images (plus negatives). Billie and Cypress were participants in the second year of the apprenticeship program. Images are of the gathering of herbs and plants, forests around the reservation, and preparing medicine. For images, see S 1577, v. 31. Also includes images of folklorist Owen. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
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| Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing | Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing | Still Image | Healer
Apprentices
Teaching of folklore
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Ethnicity, Seminole
Herbs
Plants
Flora
Alternative medicine
Healers
Natural medicine
Forests and forestry
Ferns
Cooking and dining | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Susie Billie teaching Agness Cypress Seminole herbal healing
- Date
- 1984-03-16
- Description
- 140 color slides. Billie and Cypress were participants in the second year of the apprenticeship program. Images include the gathering of herbs and plants, forests around the reservation, and preparing medicine. Also includes images of folklorist Owen. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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