Keywords: state library and archives of florida statelibraryandarchivesofflorida florida dollmaking dolls seminole dolls seminoledolls mary b. billie marybbillie big cypress seminole indian reservation bigcypressseminoleindianreservation Local call number: FS80345a Title: [Mary B. Billie making a necklace for her 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: "The last step is making the doll's bead jewelry. The jewelry also shows a popular Seminole style of earlier times." "'My grandmother used to do that. She used to wear a lot of beads. That's what they used to do. They would be heavy.'" "'She makes the necklace and then after she does that, she goes through that head, the doll's head and then she puts the beads on there to make the earrings on both sides.'" 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/120270 Local call number: FS80345a Title: [Mary B. Billie making a necklace for her 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: "The last step is making the doll's bead jewelry. The jewelry also shows a popular Seminole style of earlier times." "'My grandmother used to do that. She used to wear a lot of beads. That's what they used to do. They would be heavy.'" "'She makes the necklace and then after she does that, she goes through that head, the doll's head and then she puts the beads on there to make the earrings on both sides.'" 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/120270 |