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Chair made from cypress wood .

Date: 1987
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Chair made from cypress wood .

Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Date: 1985-08-11
Description: Two reel to reel tapes. (Copied onto C86-102.) Recording of the choir at Notre Dame d'Haiti Church at a Sunday morning service. Field notes mention that the mike was 20 feet away from choir, so the recording is "under recorded." Includes Congo and calypso styles. The choir director was Michael Voltaire. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Date: 1985-09-08
Description: One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto C86-134). The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Date: 1985-11-10
Description: Four color slides. The Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Date: 1985-07-16
Description: Five color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Circus wagons

Date: 1986-12-15
Description: Twenty color slides. Images of circus wagons located in the Circus gallery at the Ringling Museum. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Circus wagons

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Date: 1987
Collection

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Date: 1987
Collection

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Date: 1987
Collection

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Date: 1987
Collection

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
FA6103	Chair made from cypress wood .		Folklife and folklore projects Projects, Instate Craft Cypress furniture Domestic arts Decorative arts Woodwork Material culture--Florida--Glades County--Palmdale Furniture	/fpc/folklife/fa6103.gif
a_s1576_t86-059	Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church	Sound	Fieldwork Haitian Americans Church attendance Church services Churches Religious music Religious rites Religion Christianity Choir singing Choirs (music) Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t86-093	Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church	Sound	Fieldwork Church services Churches Church attendance Protestants African Americans Religion Christianity Music performance Performing arts Singing Choir singing Preachers Sermons Religious music Blues singers Bands (Music) Musical groups	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela	Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela	Still Image	Cigar industry Cigars Tobacco Occupational groups Labor Workers Workplace Latinos Cigar makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company	Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company	Still Image	Fieldwork Tobacco Workers Workplace Cigar industry Cigar making Cigars Labor Latinos Cigar makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Circus wagons	Circus wagons	Still Image	Wood carvers Fieldwork Circus Circus wagons Material culture Wagons Exhibits Woodwork Museum collection Decorative arts Museums	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
FA6078	Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.		Folklife and folklore projects Projects, Instate Craft Men in art Arts Decorative arts Carving (Decorative arts) Woodwork Wagons Material culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota Circus wagons	/fpc/folklife/fa6078.gif
FA6077	Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.		Folklife and folklore projects Projects, Instate Craft Arts Decorative arts Carving (Decorative arts) Woodwork Wagons Material culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota Circus wagons	/fpc/folklife/fa6077.gif
FA6088	Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.		Wood Projects, Instate Folklife and folklore projects Cypress knees	/fpc/folklife/fa6088.gif
FA6062	Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.		Wood Projects, Instate Folklife and folklore projects Cypress knees	/fpc/folklife/fa6062.gif

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Chair made from cypress wood .

Chair made from cypress wood .

Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Circus wagons

Circus wagons

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

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Chair made from cypress wood .

Chair made from cypress wood .

Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church

Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church

Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Cigar roller Rafael Ozambela

Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Cigar rollers at El Credito Cigar Company

Circus wagons

Circus wagons

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a carving on a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a circus wagon - Sarasota, Florida.

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a Cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.

Close up of a cypress knee at the Cypress Knee Museum - Palmdale, Florida.