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

Title

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

Image Number

• FS80265A

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.



General Note

• 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.'"

Photographer/Personal Author

• Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Physical Description

• 1 slide - col.

Subject Term

• Seminole mothers and daughters
• Palms
• Sabal
• Artisans
• Toymakers
• Seminole women
• Dollmakers

Geographic Term

• Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Fla.)

Personal Subject

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

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