Curly Dekle and apprentice Todd Nobles making cattle whips

Whip maker

Whip braider

Apprentices

Whip making

Whip braiding

Whips

Leather craft

Leather goods

Cattle

Ranching

Workplace

Teaching of folklore

Material culture

Four proof sheets with 105 black and white images (plus negatives). Nobles served as apprentice to master fok artist Dekle in 1985-1986. Nobles was Dekle's grandson. For information on their apprenticeship experience, see the fieldnotes in S 1640, box 3, flder 15. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1986-02

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1640

3

12

Photographic prints

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Roller, Peter

Dekle, "Curly" (Julian Parker), 1912-2004

Nobles, Todd

1989

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