| a_s1576_38_tape17 | Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Teaching of folklore
Education
Teachers
Folklife
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Storytelling
Tales
Teacher
Educators
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1987-07-13
- Description
- Ten audio cassettes. (The final tape appears to be blank.) The theme for this year was Seminole Indian folklore. The main speaker was Dr. Rayna Green, director of the American Indian Program with the Smithsonian Institute. A graduate from the Indian university folklife program, she researched and wrote on Native American culture and images. She also taught at several universities, and published several books. Other speakers included traditional healer Jeanette Cypress and Seminole Tribe of Florida president James Billie.
- Collection
| a_s2034_04_cd03-090 | Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5) | Sound | Dancers
Teacher
Singers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Dance
Old time music
Singing
Demonstrations
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_18_c86-042 | Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Educators
Teacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Interviewing
Teachers
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Folklife
Publishers and publishing
Oral history
Oral tradition
Editing
Writing
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1986-05-14
- Description
- Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
- Collection
| Flower braiding by Poornima Shantharam | Flower braiding by Poornima Shantharam | Still Image | Fieldwork
Plants
Flowers
Decorative arts
Craft
Arts, Asian
Indian Americans
Indian arts
Dancers
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Flower braiding by Poornima Shantharam
- Date
- 1988-08
- Description
- Seven color slides. Shantharam was a Indian dance teacher and housewife. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran | Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran | Still Image | Fieldwork
Art
Artists
Decorative arts
Craft
Arts, Asian
Indian Americans
Indian arts
Rice
Design
Kolam (House marks)
Dancers
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran
- Date
- 1988-08
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form. It consists of patterns and design created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder. Kumar, an Indian grocer, and Venkateswaran demonstrates kolam art. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t77-266 | Cora McKinney speaking and singing at the Stephen Foster Center in 1963 | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Oral histories
Special events
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Oral poetry
Local history
Singing
Singers
Teacher
Storytellers
Poets | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Polly Billie | Polly Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Polly Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of Hollywood Seminole Reservation resident Polly Billie. Billie was the daughter of Nancy Billie and the grandaughter of Lottie and Frank Shore. An intevriew with her can be found in S 1595, Box 2, tapes 5-6. Similar images can be found in S 1577, v. 49, v 50. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
- Collection
| Polly Billie | Polly Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Polly Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Thirty-two color slides. Images of of Hollywood Seminole Reservation resident Polly Billie. Billie was the daughter of Nancy Billie and grandaughter of Lottie and Frank Shore. An interview with her can be found in S 1595, Box 2, tapes 5-6. Similar images can be found in S 1577, v.48 and v.49. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
- Collection
| Polly Billie | Polly Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Polly Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Thirty-two color slides. Images of of Hollywood Seminole Reservation resident Polly Billie. Billie was the daughter of Nancy Billie and the grandaughter of Lottie and Frank Shore. An intevriew with her can be found in S 1595, Box 2, tapes 5-6. Similar images can be found in S 1577, v.48 and v.50. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
- Collection
| Seminole teacher Nancy Billie | Seminole teacher Nancy Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Teachers
Occupational groups
Indian reservations
Women
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Seminole teacher Nancy Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Three color slides. Nancy Billie, daughter of Lottie Shore of Brighton Seminole Reservation, was a teacher at Okeechobee High School, in Okeechobee, Florida. Similar images can be found in S 1577, v. 49 and v 50. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History. An interview with Billie can be found in S 1595, box 2, tapes 3-4.
- Collection
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