Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey

Apprentices

Wood carving

Teaching of folklore

Decorative arts

Craft

Woodwork

Woodworking tools

Figurines

Workshops

Carpentry tools

Pocketknives

Carvers (Decorative artists)

Wood carvers

One proof sheet with 24 black and white prints (plus negatives). Bill Cooey, a mix of Scottish and Yuchi Indian ancestry, grew up in the panhandle where he learned pocketknife carving from his mother, a descendant of the Yuchi Indians. His nephew Dale Cooey began to learn the craft with the Apprenticeship program in 1988. For more on Bill Cooey, see S 1644, box 3, folder 1. 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, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1988-04

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1640

5

13

Photographic prints

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Roller, Peter

Cooey, Bill (William J.), 1926-2014

Cooey, Dale, 1958-

Yuchi American

Scottish Americans

Native American

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