Chieri Esposito making temari | Chieri Esposito making temari | Still Image | Healer Paper art Paper work Fieldwork Apprentices Arts, Japanese Arts, Asian Temari Origami Japanese Americans Needlework Craft Material culture Decorative arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Chieri Esposito making temari
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- 1985-07
- Description
- Ten color slides. Espasito, daughter to master folk artist Kasuko Law, making temari. She served as apprentice to Law in 1984-1985. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. 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 through 2003.
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Folk medicine practitioner Jessie Newsome | Folk medicine practitioner Jessie Newsome | Still Image | African Americans Alternative medicine Natural medicine Medicine Herbs Health Homeopathy Flora Plants Healer Herbalists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Frank Mitchell performing a shoe shine rag at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Frank Mitchell performing a shoe shine rag at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Healer Folk festivals Festivals Folklore revival festivals African Americans Shoe shiners Performing arts Performances Occupational folklore | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Herbs gathered by Susie Billie and Agnes Cypress | Herbs gathered by Susie Billie and Agnes Cypress | Still Image | Healer Herbalists Fieldwork Herbs Flora Plants Healers Medicine Natural medicine Seminole Indians Native Americans Indian reservations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Herbs gathered by Susie Billie and Agnes Cypress
- Date
- 1985-04
- Description
- Twenty-two color slides. Cypress was an apprentice to Billie in order to learn Seminole herbal healing. 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 through 2003.
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Images from the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Images from the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Healer Folk festivals Festivals Folklore revival festivals Cooking and dining Demonstrations Performing arts Performances Occupational folklore Craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_t84-123 | Interview with Agnes Cypress | Sound | Healer Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Oral histories Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Mikasuki language Alternative medicine Medicine Natural medicine | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Agnes Cypress
- Date
- 1984-03-27
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Agnes was the daughter of Seminole Susie Billie, a medicine woman. She discusses medicine; medical treatment on reservations; learning traditional medicine; Green Corn Dance; role of women in medicine; dreams; burial practices; various cures; hair styles; Mikasuki language; and crafts. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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a_s1576_t84-130 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories | Sound | Healer Storytellers Fieldwork Documentary videos Interviews Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Native Americans Alternative medicine Medicine & culture Demonstrations Natural medicine Healers Herbs Flora Plants Fire Religious rites Beliefs and cultures Animal tales Trickster tales Storytelling Fables | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santiago discusses healing, medicine, gathering herbs, types of medicinal herbs used, healing training, gender roles, proper bahvior for Seminole women, trickster stories (rabbit stories), fire origin stories, the Green Corn Dance, and uses of fire. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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Jeanette Cypress interview for the Seminole Video Project | Jeanette Cypress interview for the Seminole Video Project | sound | Nurses Healer Field recordings Interviews Seminole Indians Native Americans Oral histories Oral narratives Complementary and alternative medicine Nursing Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jeanette Cypress interview for the Seminole Video Project
- Date
- 1984-03-29
- Description
- One reel-to-reel recording. Cypress was the daughter of Agnes Cypress and granddaughter Susie Billie, both Seminole medicine women. She discusses her education; growing up at Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation; learning traditional medicine from her family; medicine songs; the Seminole clan system; leadership at reservations; women's roles at reservations; the women's rights movements' effect upon Seminole women; differences between medicine women and medicine men in Seminole society; traditional medicinal practices; the Green Corn Dance; Christianity; and bilingual education.
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Jesse Mae Newsome gathering plants at her home for healing | Jesse Mae Newsome gathering plants at her home for healing | Still Image | Healer Fieldwork Healers Children African Americans Flora Plants Medicine Natural medicine Alternative medicine | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jessie Mae Newsome demonstrating folk medicine at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Jessie Mae Newsome demonstrating folk medicine at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Healer Folk festivals Festivals Folklore revival festivals Healers Health Medicine Alternative medicine Beliefs and cultures Demonstrations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |