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Keywords: state library and archives of florida statelibraryandarchivesofflorida florida Local call number: FS80294a Title: [Collection of Seminole dolls in the process of being made by Mary Billie: 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: "Seminoles used to make dolls mainly as toys for their own children, but now Mary, like other Seminole dollmakers, depends upon the craft to earn her living. 'They were for the kids to play with at first. That's what they were making it for, for the kids to play with.'" 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/120232 Local call number: FS80294a Title: [Collection of Seminole dolls in the process of being made by Mary Billie: 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: "Seminoles used to make dolls mainly as toys for their own children, but now Mary, like other Seminole dollmakers, depends upon the craft to earn her living. 'They were for the kids to play with at first. That's what they were making it for, for the kids to play with.'" 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/120232
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