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Interview with Rubie Billie (interpreted by Betty Mae Jumper)

Type:

Sound

Date:

01/27/1982

Item:

Audio recording

Container:

8

Series:

S1576

Item ID:

C83-38

Download: MP3

General Note/Comment

  • One audio cassette. Billie, through her interpreter Jumper, discusses making and selling dolls; the younger generation's interest in the Green Corn Dance; music and attendance at the Green Corn Dance; Seminole burial traditions for adults and children; inventing airboats (which were made from Model Ts); women's hairstyles; teaching children traditional crafts, traditions, and values; sewing patchwork design; and winning a prize for a doll she made.

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