| a_s1640_20_tape04 | Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs | Sound | Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Healers
Health
Herbs
Plants
Flora
Medicine
Natural medicine
Alternative medicine
Healer
Herbalists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs
- Date
- 1985-03-28
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of Billie and Cypress identifying medicinal herbs and discussing their uses. For images of the identifications, see S 1577, v. 31. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
- Collection
| a_s1640_20_tape02 | Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs | Sound | Healer
Herbalists
Interviews
Sound recordings
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Alternative medicine
Medicine
Nature
Natural medicine
Herbs
Naming practices
Health
Plants
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of Agnes Cypress and Susie Billie identifying medicinal herbs
- Date
- 1985-03-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of Billie and Cypress identifying medicinal herbs and discussing their uses. For images of the identifications, see S 1577, v. 31. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
- Collection
| a_s1576_39_tape18 | Seminole Designs (slide and tape program) | Sound | Dollmakers
Needleworkers
Education
Interviews
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Folklife
Native Americans
Fieldwork (educational method)
Dollmaking
Decorative arts
Teaching of folklore
Demonstrations
Patchwork
Design
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Seminole Designs (slide and tape program)
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- One audio cassette (plus three duplicate copies.) An educational audio and slide program about Seminole designs. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. In the late 1970s, the FFP under the direction of Bulger created six audio and slide programs about Florida folklife for use by schools, libraries, and other organizations.
- Collection
| a_s1576_05_c81-021 | Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation | Sound | Education
Interviews
Indigenous peoples
Seminole Indians
Crafts
Field recordings
Dollmaking
Miccosukee Indians
Palmetto
Toys
Native Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. An educational slide-tape presentation about Seminole doll making. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. Copied onto T80-96. Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 39, tapes 16-17.
- Collection
| a_s1640_20_tape01 | Susie Billie interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Interviews
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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-049 | Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Basketry
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants
Beliefs and cultures
Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-17
- Description
- One reel to reel. Jumper (with Judy Bill Osceola interpreting) discusses (through Osceola) basket making - - including when and how she learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Copied onto audiocassette C83-34. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
- Collection
| Aerial images of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Aerial images of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Architecture
Community culture
Dwellings
Houses
Aerial photographs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Aerial images of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Aerial images of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Architecture
Community culture
Dwellings
Houses
Aerial photographs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Aerial views of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Aerial views of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation | Still Image | Fieldwork
Aerial photographs
Landscape
Construction + architecture
Indian reservations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Aerial views of Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation
- Date
- 1985-01
- Description
- Nine color slides Images created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. 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 had agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen,who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Betty Mae Jumper sewing baskets at the Stephen Foster Center | Betty Mae Jumper sewing baskets at the Stephen Foster Center | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Demonstrations
Needlework
Sewing
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Baskets
Basket work | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Betty Mae Jumper sewing baskets at the Stephen Foster Center
- Date
- 1985-01
- Description
- Two color slides. Images are of Jumper sewing colored thread into grass baskets. Images were created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. 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.
- Collection
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