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Keywords: state library and archives of florida statelibraryandarchivesofflorida florida dollmaking dolls seminole dolls seminoledolls mary b. billie marybbillie big cypress seminole indian reservation bigcypressseminoleindianreservation outdoor Local call number: FS80292a Title: [Various sized 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: "'She just goes ahead and cuts like some [palmetto fibers] for the four inch, and some for the six inch, and you know, the body. It's always been like that, different sizes.' From one palmetto, Mary Billie sometimes gets enough fiber for four or five 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/120231 Local call number: FS80292a Title: [Various sized 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: "'She just goes ahead and cuts like some [palmetto fibers] for the four inch, and some for the six inch, and you know, the body. It's always been like that, different sizes.' From one palmetto, Mary Billie sometimes gets enough fiber for four or five 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/120231
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