Uploads from State Library and Archives of Florida, tagged bigcypressseminoleindianreservation

Seminole Cattlemen with branding irons during a round-up: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:07:26 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: JJS0293

Title: Seminole Cattlemen with branding irons during a round-up: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

Date: January 18, 1949

General Note: L-R: Frank Billie, Frank J. Billie, Morgan Smith, Willie Frank, Josie Billie, Jimmy Cypress, Charlie Osceola, Junior Cypress, John Cypress and Little Fewell.

Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in.

Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/245297

Bert Billie: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:14:09 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FP83124

Title: Bert Billie: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida

Date: 1983

Photographer: Merri Belland

Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 5 x 7 in.

Series Title: Folklife Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/115564

Susie Billie collecting medicinal plants: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:14:10 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS86616

Title: Susie Billie collecting medicinal plants: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida

Date: March 16, 1985

Photographer: Ormond H. Loomis

Physical descrip: 1 slide - col.

Series Title: Folklife Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122605

Stick ball sticks and ball: Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:12:55 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS8945

Title: Stick ball sticks and ball: Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida

Date: January 1989

Photographer: Nancy Michael

Physical descrip: 1 slide - col.

Series Title: Folklife Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/123175

Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John in search of palmetto fibers to make dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:22:29 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80262a

Title: [Mary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John in search of palmetto fibers to make dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She never knows where to find any. Like you would just go into a grocery store and get what you want. Its not like that. She has to hunt for it. If you're lucky, it takes her about half a day to find it, or if you can't find it, sometimes it takes her all day. Sometimes she has to go out the next morning to look for it again.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120216

Claudia C. John helping her mother Mary B. Billie look for palmetto fibers to make dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:16:51 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80265a

Title: [Claudia C. John helping her mother Mary B. Billie look for palmetto fibers to make dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She never knows where to find any. Like you would just go into a grocery store and get what you want. Its not like that. She has to hunt for it. If you're lucky, it takes her about half a day to find it, or if you can't find it, sometimes it takes her all day. Sometimes she has to go out the next morning to look for it again.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120218

Mary B. Billie's tools for gathering palmetto fibers to make Seminole dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:52:14 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80259a

Title: [Mary B. Billie's tools for gathering palmetto fibers to make Seminole dolls: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She never knows where to find any. Like you would just go into a grocery store and get what you want. Its not like that. She has to hunt for it. If you're lucky, it takes her about half a day to find it, or if you can't find it, sometimes it takes her all day. Sometimes she has to go out the next morning to look for it again.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120214

Mary Billie gathering palmettos: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:39:29 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80269

Title: [Mary Billie gathering palmettos: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She never knows where to find any. Like you would just go into a grocery store and get what you want. Its not like that. She has to hunt for it. If you're lucky, it takes her about half a day to find it, or if you can't find it, sometimes it takes her all day. Sometimes she has to go out the next morning to look for it again.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120221

Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she is about to harvest for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:35:06 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80278a

Title: [Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she is about to harvest for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "When Mary finds a good palmetto, she starts to strip out the fiber. 'First, you have to cut the leaves that are standing on that thing and then, after that, you just cut that thing off. You use the smaller knife to take the palmetto fibers off. She [has] a cloth with her and after she cuts them and gets it, that thing off it, she wraps it and brings it back. If it's dry enough, she goes ahead and makes the dolls. But if it's kind of wet, she has to let 'em dry out for a day before she can make it.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120225

Mary B. Billie harvesting palmetto fibers for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:34:29 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80280a

Title: [Mary B. Billie harvesting palmetto fibers for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "When Mary finds a good palmetto, she starts to strip out the fiber. 'First, you have to cut the leaves that are standing on that thing and then, after that, you just cut that thing off. You use the smaller knife to take the palmetto fibers off. She [has] a cloth with her and after she cuts them and gets it, that thing off it, she wraps it and brings it back. If it's dry enough, she goes ahead and makes the dolls. But if it's kind of wet, she has to let 'em dry out for a day before she can make it.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120227

Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she has collected for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:26:07 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80289a

Title: [Mary B. Billie admiring the palmetto fibers she has collected for dollmaking: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She [has] a cloth with her and after she cuts them and gets it, that thing off it, she wraps it and brings it back. If it's dry enough, she goes ahead and makes the dolls. But if it's kind of wet, she has to let'em dry out for a day before she can make it. She'll go ahead and cut them to what size she needs to make the dolls. She just goes ahead and cuts like some for the four inch, and some for the six inch, and you know, the body. It's always been like that, different sizes.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120229

Partially built chickee: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:22:24 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80257a

Title: [Partially built chickee: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who 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.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120212

Mary B. Billie in the early process of making a Seminole doll: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:12:20 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80299a

Title: [Mary B. Billie in the early process of making a Seminole doll: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "'She makes the head first and then puts the body together. She'll make the heads like maybe she's going to make a hundred. Sometimes she makes fifty and then she cuts up the body the same amount and then she starts working on it.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120236

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

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:17:26 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80258a

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

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who 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.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120213

Mary Billie and other Seminole women starting to make dolls: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:38:50 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80305

Title: [Mary Billie and other Seminole women starting to make dolls: Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120241

Mary B. Billie sewing a Seminole doll head to the body: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:29:45 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80306a

Title: [Mary B. Billie sewing a Seminole doll head to the body: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "Mary stuffs the head with pieces of palmetto fiber. 'If she uses something else like cotton, the needle won't go through that cotton. So she uses that palmetto fiber. Then she would put the palmetto fibers inside the doll to make it stand.' Mary often saves time by stuffing the bodies with cotton instead of fiber, 'since the body doesn't need much sewing.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120242

Mary B. Billie displaying work during the process of attaching a Seminole doll head to the body

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:42:47 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80307a

Title: [Mary B. Billie displaying work during the process of attaching a Seminole doll head to the body]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "Mary stuffs the head with pieces of palmetto fiber. 'If she uses something else like cotton, the needle won't go through that cotton. So she uses that palmetto fiber. Then she would put the palmetto fibers inside the doll to make it stand.' Mary often saves time by stuffing the bodies with cotton instead of fiber, 'since the body doesn't need much sewing.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120243

Mary B. Billie displaying work during the process of attaching a Seminole doll head to the body

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:38:32 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80317a

Title: [Mary B. Billie displaying work during the process of attaching a Seminole doll head to the body]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "Mary stuffs the head with pieces of palmetto fiber. 'If she uses something else like cotton, the needle won't go through that cotton. So she uses that palmetto fiber. Then she would put the palmetto fibers inside the doll to make it stand.' Mary often saves time by stuffing the bodies with cotton instead of fiber, 'since the body doesn't need much sewing.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120252

Mary Billie cutting cardboard for the Seminole doll she is making: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:19:34 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80318a

Title: [Mary Billie cutting cardboard for the Seminole doll she is making: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "Mary stuffs the head with pieces of palmetto fiber. 'If she uses something else like cotton, the needle won't go through that cotton. So she uses that palmetto fiber. Then she would put the palmetto fibers inside the doll to make it stand.' Mary often saves time by stuffing the bodies with cotton instead of fiber, 'since the body doesn't need much sewing. After she finishes that, I guess she puts that cardboard and wraps that palmetto around it and put[s] it on the bottom so stuff would not come out when it stands. She'll cut that cardboard out and make a circle big enough where she stuffed it, uh, cotton. And then she'll take that palmetto fiber and put it around that cardboard where she make that circle, cut that circle. And then she'll, uh, put it on the bottom of that doll and sew it up so it can stand straight. Then she'll make the eyes for it and the mouth.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120253

Mary Billie wrapping palmetto fiber around cardboard for the Seminole doll she is making: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:06:11 -0800

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: FS80320a

Title: [Mary Billie wrapping palmetto fiber around cardboard for the Seminole doll she is making: Big Cypress Reservation, Florida]

Personal Author: Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date: Photographed on July 15, 1980.

Physical descrip: 1 slide: col.

General Note: Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who learned it from Mary's grandmother.

Accompanying note: "Mary stuffs the head with pieces of palmetto fiber. 'If she uses something else like cotton, the needle won't go through that cotton. So she uses that palmetto fiber. Then she would put the palmetto fibers inside the doll to make it stand.' Mary often saves time by stuffing the bodies with cotton instead of fiber, 'since the body doesn't need much sewing. After she finishes that, I guess she puts that cardboard and wraps that palmetto around it and put[s] it on the bottom so stuff would not come out when it stands. She'll cut that cardboard out and make a circle big enough where she stuffed it, uh, cotton. And then she'll take that palmetto fiber and put it around that cardboard where she make that circle, cut that circle. And then she'll, uh, put it on the bottom of that doll and sew it up so it can stand straight. Then she'll make the eyes for it and the mouth.'"

Series Title: (Florida Folklife Collection.)

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/120254