Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John by a table under a partially built chickee - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

Title

• Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John by a table under a partially built chickee - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

Image Number

• FS80258A

Year

• 1980

Date Note

• Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Series Title

• General: Folklife Collection.
• Specific: Folklife Collection Seminole Slide/Tape Project (Palmetto Dolls)

General Note

• Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who had learned it from Mary's grandmother.
• Accompanying note: "Although she sews the clothes indoors, Mary Billie does most of her dollmaking in her backyard. She is building a chikkee there so that she will be able to work outside whenever she wants to. 'She said when she's making dolls and when you make it in the house, it gets kind of dirty. So she'd rather be out under the chikkee when she's making dolls.'"

Photographer/Personal Author

• Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Physical Description

• 1 slide - col.

Subject Term

• Chickees
• Stilt houses
• Indian dwellings
• Craft
• Tables
• Architecture, Native American
• Dollmakers
• Toymakers
• Artisans
• Seminole Indians--Dwellings
• Thatched buildings
• Architecture
• Material culture
• Seminole mothers and daughters
• Seminole women
• Seminole Indians--Material culture

Geographic Term

• Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Fla.)

Personal Subject

• John, Claudia C.
• Billie, Mary B., 1934-2003.

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