| a_s1595_02_tape05 | Interview with Polly Billie | Sound | Teacher
Seminole Indians
Family history
Oral histories
Education
Schools
Native Americans
Fishing
Food habits | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Polly Billie
- Date
- 1988-12
- Description
- Two audio cassette recordings. Index to interview recording located in S 1595, Box 1. Interview with Seminole Polly Billie, daughter of Nancy Billie, and granddaughter of Lottie Shore. The interview was recorded at the Hollywood Reservation in Hollywood, Florida. The interview dealt mostly with family relations and growing up on a reservation. Also discussed Seminole culture, such as fishing and education. There is also a transcript of a second interview (no tape recording in collection) with Polly Billie located in S 1595, Box 1, folder 6. The recording was conducted in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-049 | Interview with Seminole basketmaker Tommie Jumper (with Judy Bill Osceola interpreting) | 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 |
Interview with Seminole basketmaker Tommie Jumper (with Judy Bill Osceola interpreting)
- Date
- 1981-11-17
- Description
- One reel to reel. Jumper 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
| a_s1576_t81-089 | Interview with Seminole Linda Bowers | Sound | Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Florida history
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Mikasuki language
Oral histories
Life histories
Beliefs and cultures
Patchwork
Clothing and dress | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Seminole Linda Bowers
- Date
- 1981-09-01
- Description
- One reel to reel. (Copied onto C81-60.) The first nine minutes of the recording are traffic and swamp ambience. Bowers discusses Seminole crafts; Seminole languages; life with the Oklahoma Seminoles; the role of women in the culture; the future of the Seminole people; traditional clothing; and patchwork. 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. 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
| a_s1576_10_c83-092 | It's Our Way (Seminole Slide/Tape program) | Sound | Tailors
Needleworkers
Teaching of folklore
Slideshows
Slides (Photography)
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Sewing
Patchwork
Clothing and dress
Needlework
Indian reservations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
It's Our Way (Seminole Slide/Tape program)
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. The recordings are documentary programs on the origins and historical significance of Seminole sewing and dress, for women, men, and children. Reservation life, the Green Corn Dance, tourism are also discussed. A transcript of the slideshow can be found in S 1579, box 1.
- Collection
| James Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | James Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Public officer
Field recordings
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Interviews
Miccosukee Indians
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Folktales | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
James Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-09-01
- Description
- Four reel-to-reel audio recordings. Interview begins on the second half of T81-87, continues on T81-85, T81-86 and concludes on T81-88. Seminole chairman Billie discusses what the Seminole Tribe is attempting to do with their museum; which aspects of their culture he is trying to preserve; artists he feels represent Seminoles well, including David "Bob" Motlow, Sr., Will McLean, Guy LaBree; folk tales; his election as Seminole chairman; fighting in Vietnam; differences between the Seminole and Miccosukee (Billie is a Miccosukee by birth, though chairman of the Seminole tribe); the rabbit as a folk character in Seminole culture; connections between Seminole and African tales; the Green Corn dance; Seminole religion and Christianity; healer Josie Billie; and manhood initiations. Audiocassette copies were made as C81-57, C81-58 & C81-59.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| a_s1640_25_tape22 | Jose & Marvin Silva demonstrate the Toro Huaco dance for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Field recordings
Latinos
Nicaraguan Americans
Masks
Folk dance
Ethic clothing
Apprentices
Pageants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Judy Bill Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Judy Bill Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Needleworkers
Tailors
Field recordings
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Interviews
Needlework
Patchwork
Oral narratives
Textiles | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Judy Bill Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1982-01-28
- Description
- One audio recording. Interview ends after seventeen minutes due to recording malfunction. Osceola discusses patchwork sewing including when and how they learned the craft; patterns; the choice of colors and fabrics; clothing styles; patchwork designs; and sewing machines. She also describes her childhood. 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. 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
| Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers
Field recordings
Oral histories
Interviews
Oral narratives
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Dollmaking
Miccosukee Indians
Crafts
Mikasuki language | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1980-05-10
- Description
- Two reel-to-reel tapes. T80-47 has been spliced with T80-48. Billie discusses the history of Seminole dollmaking; marketing the dolls to tourists; learning the craft from her grandmother; patchwork; sweetgrass baskets; and other crafts sold to tourists. Her daughter, Claudia John, interprets from the Mikasuki language.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape06 | Master of the Sacred Steel album | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Audiotape recordings
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Religion
Churches
Christianity
Concerts
Community concerts
Protestants
Church services
Prayer
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Master of the Sacred Steel album
- Date
- 1994-10-13
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. Master version of the Sacred Steel album, which was released in 1995 by the Florida Folklife Program. The album is divided into two sections: side 1 is instrumentals and concerts; side 2 are church services. For more information on musicians, recording locations, and production credits, see accompanying booklet, which can be found in S 2044, box 1, folder 22. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
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