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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Folk medicine"
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Student interviews with Polk County residents

Student interviews with Polk County residents

Date
1977
Description
Polk County residents answer interview questions posed by folklorist DeVane and his students about their experience in the early to mid 1900s. They discuss caring for farm animals, cultivating agriculture, chores, making their own clothes, blankets, and other necessities, home remedies/medicine, interacting with neighbors, simple machines in farm communities, inventions and new technologies, primary and secondary schools, holidays, natural & man-made disasters, etc.
Collection
Susie Billie & apprentice Mary Johns interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie & apprentice Mary Johns interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Date
1995-07-21
Description
One audio cassette. Johns was funded to learn traditional Seminole herbal medicine from Billie. They discuss the preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background of Seminole medicine.
Collection
Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Date
1985-01-18
Description
One audio cassette. Jeanette Cypress translates for Billie. Billie discusses Seminole healing practices, including gathering herbs, preparing cures, gender and medicine, physical and spritutal healing, payment methods, medicine songs, and gathering herbs. She also discusses Seminole naming practices and clans. Billie served as a master artist to apprentice Agnes Cypress.
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a_s1576_02_c78-035Student interviews with Polk County residentsSoundInterviews
Field recordings
Farm life
Folk medicine
Quality of worklife
Oral histories
Technology
Education
Holidays
Disasters
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a_s1640_25_tape17Susie Billie & apprentice Mary Johns interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship ProgramSoundField recordings
Apprentices
Seminole Indians
Indigenous peoples
Native Americans
Interviews
Elders (age groups)
Healers
Folk medicine
Herbs
Medicinal plants
Traditional knowledge
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a_s1640_20_tape01Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship ProgramSoundInterviews
Field recordings
Indigenous peoples
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Complementary and alternative medicine
Traditional knowledge
Folk medicine
Herbs
Naming ceremonies
Clans
Medicinal plants
Healers
Mikasuki language
Herbalists
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