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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramSeminole dolls before and after clothes, hair and jewelry - Big Cypress Reservation, Florida
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Seminole Slide/Tape Project (Palmetto Dolls)
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Made of palmetto fiber by Mary B. Billie who 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: "This is what the doll looks like before Mary puts on its clothes, hair and jewelry. She usually makes the clothes ahead of time, so that they will be ready when she wants to make her dolls."
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