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 |
a_s1576_63_c96-061 | Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Basket maker Storytellers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Seminole Indians Native Americans Health Alternative medicine Storytelling Belief systems Beliefs and cultures Family history Herbs Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1996-05-25
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Tozzer served as emcee. Mary Johns discusses what she enjoys about Seminole culture, herbalism, Seminole stories, native language and basketry. The audience asks questions related to superstitions, rituals re: women, family life, stories and legends. She tells an excerpt from a story on Seminole migration and how they got their name. The audience asks questions about actors and speaking realistic language.
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a_s2034_04_cd03-114 | Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 6) | Sound | Cooks Storytellers Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans Cookery, Haitian African Americans Medicine & culture Health | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1640_25_tape07 | Susie Billie and apprentice Mary Johns interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Field recordings Apprentices Seminole Indians Ethnicity, Seminole Native Americans Health Elderly, the Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Susie Billie and apprentice Mary Johns interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1995-01-25
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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a_s1576_t79-005 | Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Oral history Personal experience narratives African Americans Midwifery Occupational groups Occupational training Health Labor Children Natural medicine Natural childbirth Healers Family history Beliefs and cultures Midwives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project
- Date
- 1979-06-06
- Description
- One reel to reel. Taylor discusses her life and career as a midwife. Topics include family history; training with a local doctor; childbirth; medicinal treatments; pre-natal care; her first delivery in 1953; complications in childbirth including tearing, placenta, twins, and breached births; birth-related superstitions; labor pains; and monetary charges. Bonnie Carden, another midwife, also joins in towards the end of the interview.
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Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns | Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns | Still Image | Fieldwork Apprentices Seminole Indians Ethnicity, Seminole Native Americans Health Elderly, the Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns
- Date
- 1995
- Description
- One proof sheet with 35 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns | Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns | Still Image | Fieldwork Apprentices Seminole Indians Ethnicity, Seminole Native Americans Health Elderly, the Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of Seminole healer Susie Billie and her apprentice Mary Johns
- Date
- 1995-01
- Description
- 16 color slides. Images of Billie and Johns at Billie's home on the couch. Johns was funded to learn from Billie traditional Seminole herbal medicine including preparation of herbs, herbal treatments, healing songs, and the historical background. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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a_s1576_t78-332 | Interview with sisters Lela Creel, Carrie Granger, and Perl Boyett | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Life histories Oral histories Healers Health Herbs Domestic arts Natural medicine Food habits Cooking and dining | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.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 |
Josie Billie, Seminole medicine man | Josie Billie, Seminole medicine man | Still Image | Healer Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Native Americans Seminole Indians Ethnicity, Seminole Alternative medicine Natural medicine Practices Healers Health | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |