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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramMary B. Billie's tools for gathering palmetto fibers to make Seminole dolls - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida
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Seminole Slide/Tape Project (Palmetto Dolls)
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Mary B. Billie has been a dollmaker since she was 17. She learned the skill by watching her mother, who had learned it from Mary's grandmother.
Accompanying note: "'If you are planning on making dolls, uh, first of all you have to find the palmetto fibers. And for that you have to have a knife and a[n] axe and a file and maybe some water. And you don't know where you're going to find the palmetto fibers. You got to look for the nice ones. So you have to go 20 or 30 miles to look for that stuff.'"
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