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Listen: The Latin ProgramBaskets made by Marian Bowers and her apprentice Martha Jones - Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida.
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Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
Series 1640, Folk Arts Apprenticeship Slides, Miscellaneous : 1992-1994 ; Box 17
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Teaching of folklore
Basketry, Seminole
Craft
Equipment, Domestic arts
Domestic arts
Decorative arts
Basketwork
Baskets
Nature craft
Indian baskets--North America
Seminole baskets
Material culture--Florida--Glades County--Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation
Seminole Indians--Material culture
Mentoring in the arts
Handicraft
Additional Creator
Additional Creator
Physical Description
General Note
Bowers' apprentice, Martha Jones, who is also from Brighton, helped her grandmother make a few baskets in the 1950s, but did not learn the full process when she was young. She wants to become an accomplished basketmaker so she can teach her daughter, grandchildren, and other Seminoles this endangered traditional craft.
Marion Bowers, who lives on the Seminoles' Brighton Reservation, learned to make palmetto stem baskets from her mother more than sixty years ago. The baskets are an older style than the coiled baskets that are usually made by Seminoles today. Bowers is one of the few Seminoles who maintains this vanishing art form.
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