Interview with netmaker William (Billy) Burbank

Net maker

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Interviews

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Personal experience narratives

Life histories

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Occupational folklore

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Fishing nets

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One audio cassette. Billy Burbank discusses the family net-making industry including the differences in net types; Burbank family innovations in net making; problems with modern shrimp industry; differences between his nets and his father's and grandfather's; difference in cost between his nets and the older ones; the learning process involved in traditional net-making (how he learned); process of "sewing" the net; net patterns and what they are intended to catch; materials used in net-making. Interviews conducted during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV). A transcript of the interview can be found in S 1579, box 1, folder: C86-99 through C86-149. An earlier interview with Burbank can be found in S 1576, reel T80-82.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1576

1984-07-21

Florida Folklife Program

sound recordings

audiocassettes

Sound

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S1576

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C86-150

Fishing All My Days (Shrimp Video Documentary)

Larsen, Eric

Burbank, Billy, III

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