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Beaded sashes

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Description: Four color slides. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
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Beaded sashes

Date: 1989-01
Description: Three color slides. The images were created in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
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Beaded sashes

Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Date: 1950
Description: Four color slides. Images of Seminole patriarch Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk festival in the 1950s. Bowlegs was famous as a hunting guide in the early twentieth century. Before dying in 1965 at his Brighton Seminole Reservation home, Bowlegs participated in every Florida Folk Festival.
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Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Date: 1992-03-08
Description: In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
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Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Date: 1992-03-08
Description: In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
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Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Cypress Knee Museum

Date: 1987-01-15
Description: Sixteen proof sheets, with 538 black and white images (plus negatives). The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Cypress Knee Museum

Date: 1987-01-15
Description: 189 color slides. Images are dark and difficult to see. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
Collection

Cypress Knee Museum

First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

Date: 1988-12
Description: One audio cassette recording. Michael interviews Shore with Billie serving as translator. Shore discusses Seminole culture, storytelling, foodways, medicinal practices, and family matters. The recording was conducted in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
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First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

Date: 1988-12
Description: One audio cassette recording. The interview was recorded at the Brighton Reservation in Okeechobee, Florida. Billie discusses education in the reservation. Also discusses the Mikasuki language. The recording was conducted in part for use in an exhibit on Seminole culture at the Museum of Florida History.
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First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property

Date: 1992-03
Description: Seventeen color slides. Vickers was a long-time catfisher, who also gigged frogs to help earn more money for his family. Two images of a gate on his property with a Keep Closed sign. In the same box, folder 10, there is a transcript of the interview, but there is no tape. In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
Collection

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property

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Beaded sashes	Beaded sashes	Still Image	Seminole Indians Native Americans Mikasuki Indians Indian reservations Beadwork Material culture Decorative arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival	Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Demonstrations Seminole Indians Clothing and dress Native Americans Older men	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
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Cypress Knee Museum	Cypress Knee Museum	Still Image	Woodworkers Fieldwork Museum collection Museums Cypress Woodwork Trees Decorative arts Exhibits Material culture Tourism	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Cypress Knee Museum	Cypress Knee Museum	Still Image	Woodworkers Fieldwork Museum collection Museums Cypress Woodwork Trees Decorative arts Exhibits Material culture Tourism	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1595_02_tape01	First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History	Sound	Seminole Indians Field recordings Oral histories Oral narratives Foodways Storytelling Family history Indigenous peoples Folk beliefs Interviews	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1595_02_tape03	First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History	Sound	Seminole Indians Indigenous peoples Field recordings Research, theory, and methodology Oral narratives Education Mikasuki language	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property	Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property	Still Image	Fieldwork Interviewing Porches Swings Mobile homes Gates Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Cypress Knee Museum

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Cypress Knee Museum

First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property

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Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Billy Bowlegs III at the Florida Folk Festival

Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival

Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival

Cypress Knee Museum

Cypress Knee Museum

Cypress Knee Museum

Cypress Knee Museum

First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

First Nancy Billie interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property

Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property