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Susie Jim Billie and daughter Agnes Cypress collecting medicinal plants - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

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Image Number

FS86569

Photographer

Loomis, Ormond H., Collector.

Date

1985

Date Note

Photographed on March 16, 1985.

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Collection

Folklife collection
Series 1577, 1985 Folk Arts Apprenticeship ; no 31

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1 slide - col.

Susie Jim Billie and daughter Agnes Cypress collecting medicinal plants - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

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Title

Susie Jim Billie and daughter Agnes Cypress collecting medicinal plants - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida

Subject

Domestic arts

Personal adornment

Ethnicity, Seminole

Human body folk medicine

Belief systems

Folk remedies

Belief and custom

Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation

Plants, Useful

Medicinal plants

Older Seminole women--Florida--Hendry County--Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation--Clothing and dress

Seminole women--Florida--Hendry County--Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation--Clothing and dress

Material culture--Florida--Hendry County--Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation

Seminole Indians

Creator

Loomis, Ormond H., Collector.

Date

1985

Identifier

FS86569

Image URL

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Date Note

Photographed on March 16, 1985.

Geographic Term

Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Fla.)

Hendry County (Fla.)

Color

color

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

Series Title

Folklife collection

Folklife Collection Series 1577, 1985 Folk Arts Apprenticeship ; no 31

Subject - Person

Billie, Susie Jim, 1900-2002.

Cypress, Agnes, 1938-

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Chicago Manual of Style

Loomis, Ormond H., Collector. Susie Jim Billie and daughter Agnes Cypress collecting medicinal plants - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida. 1985. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122597>, accessed 13 July 2025.

MLA

Loomis, Ormond H., Collector. Susie Jim Billie and daughter Agnes Cypress collecting medicinal plants - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida. 1985. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122597>

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(State Archives of Florida/Loomis)

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