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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramMary B. Billie and daughter Claudia C. John in search of palmetto fibers to make dolls - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida
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Seminole Slide/Tape Project (Palmetto Dolls)
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Personal Subjects
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General Note
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: "'She never knows where to find any. Like you would just go into a grocery store and get what you want. Its not like that. She has to hunt for it. If you're lucky, it takes her about half a day to find it, or if you can't find it, sometimes it takes her all day. Sometimes she has to go out the next morning to look for it again.'"
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