| Blues singer Mary McClain posing for photographs at 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Blues singer Mary McClain posing for photographs at 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | African Americans
Folk festivals
Women
Folklore revival festivals
Blues singers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Blues singer Mary McClain posing for photographs at 1984 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1984-05-27
- Description
- Eight color slides. Known as Diamond Teeth Mary for the jewels she placed in her teeth in the 1940s, Mary was born in West Virginia, and always claimed to be the half sister of fellow blues singer Bessie Smith. In 1918, she moved to Florida's Gulf Coast. During her later years, she lived in Bradenton, Florida. Although McClain was a popular performer in the 1920s and 1930s, she stopped performing the blues for many years. She was rediscovered by the Florida Folklife Program in the 1980s. In 1986, she won the Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1986. She died on 4 April 2000.
- Collection
| Corn husk weaving | Corn husk weaving | Still Image | Weaving
Woven goods
Material culture
Women weavers
Cornhusk craft
Craft
Women
Demonstrations
Domestic arts
Corn
Weavers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Corn husk weaving
- Date
- 1979-06-15
- Description
- Twelve black and white photographic prints, with negatives. Three women weaving cornhusks at a unidentified festival.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t90-081 | Ethnic Women Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Demonstrations
Women
Oral communication
Holidays
Holidays and festivals
Community identity
Community culture
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Ethnic Women Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
- Date
- 1990-05-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Folklorist Nancy Michael led a discussion about how women from various cultures celebrate holidays. Louis was from Miami, Burrus from tarpon Springs, and Oscher from Orlando.Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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| a_s1576_t87-066 | Friday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Maritime life
Seafood industry
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Women
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 6)
- Date
- 1987-05-22
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Women in Commercial Fishing workshop: Workshop focusing on the role women play in the commercial fishing. Mora, from Cortez, and Benett talk about their experiences in the industry. The folklife area in 1987 focused on Maritime folklife, which stemmed from Taylor's work on the 1986 Maritime Heritage Project, and cooperative project between the FFP and the Library of Congress.
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| a_s1576_t84-120 | Interview with Carol Cypress | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Politics and culture
Stick ball
Ball games
Leisure
Indian Americans
Food preparation
Food habits
Material culture
Family history
Bingo
Education
Sewing
Religion
Beliefs and cultures
Women | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Carol Cypress
- Date
- 1983-08-10
- Description
- Three reel to reels (also copied onto C84-112/114). Cypress talks about Seminole culture. She discusses the role of television; Mikasuki language; the effect of drainage canals on leisure activities; air conditioning; healers; marriages; parental discipline; food such as sofke and coontie palm; stick ball game; influence of Western society upon Seminole culture; education; drug use on reservations; lullabies; traditional songs; and basket making. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t84-118 | Interview with Pat Diamond | Sound | Secretaries
Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Politics and culture
Stick ball
Ball games
Leisure
Indian Americans
Politicians
Tourism
Material culture
Family history
Bingo
Education
Sewing
Religion
Beliefs and cultures
Women | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Pat Diamond
- Date
- 1983-08-10
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto C84-111/112). Diamond, a secretary to Seminole Chairman Jim Billie, discusses culture on Seminole reservations. Topics include native languages; expanding reservation land; marrying non-Indians; teaching culture to children; reservation and tribal politics; role of women in tribal politics; recent reservation projects; changes that bingo has brought to the reservations; cattle ranching; selling traditional crafts; role of television in Seminole lives; medicine; cultural identification; stick ball games; and tourism. 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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| Lottie Shore | Lottie Shore | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Jewelry
Clothing and dress
Indian reservations
Elderly, the
Women
Basket maker
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lottie Shore
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Three color slides. Images of Seminole basket maker, food preparer, and matriarch Lottie Shore. Similar images may be found in S 1577, v. 48. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History. An interview with Shore can be found in S 1595, box 2, tapes 1-2.
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| Lottie Shore | Lottie Shore | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Jewelry
Clothing and dress
Indian reservations
Elderly, the
Women
Basket maker
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lottie Shore
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Forty-three color slides. Images of Seminole basket maker, food preparer, and matriarch Lottie Shore. Similar images can be found in S 1577, v. 50, S89-487 - S89-489. An interview with Shore may be found in S 1595, box 2, tapes 1-2. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
- Collection
| Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie | Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Food preparation
Clothing and dress
Indian reservations
Elderly, the
Women
Corn
Pestles
Food habits | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Four color slides. 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. An interview with Shore can be found in S 1595, box 2, tapes 1-2; with Billie on tapes 3-4.
- Collection
| Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie | Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Mikasuki Indians
Native Americans
Food preparation
Clothing and dress
Indian reservations
Elderly, the
Women
Corn
Pestles
Food habits | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lottie Shore and daughter Nancy Billie
- Date
- 1989-01
- Description
- Eight color slides. 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 Shore can be found in S 1595, box 2, tapes 1-2; with Billie on tapes 3-4.
- Collection
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