Max Dooley and apprentice Reginald Reese making cast nets

Net maker

Fishing nets

Casting (Fishing)

Teaching of folklore

Weaving

Weavers

Material culture

Fishing Equipment and supplies

Fishing tackle

Fieldwork

Apprentices

Fishers

97 color slides. Originally born in Georgia, Dooley was a long-time Florida fisher and net maker. Reis, a Portuguese American fisher, was funded to learn to make and repair cast nets. He had to make one 8 foot and one 10 foot net. For more images of the two, see S 1640, box 16, folder 6. For more information, see S 1644, box 11, folder 7. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1993-01

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 68

S95-584 - S95-660

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Stone, Robert, 1944-

Dooley, Max Louis, 1917-2006

Reis, Reginald, 1942-

Portuguese American

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