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Deaconess Bedell, Mary Billie, Susie, and children in the fields

Tom Buster's wife, Claome, and children

Group standing around meat being cut for Christmas feast

Chestnut Billie, Effie Billlie, and children in a truck

Picking tomatoes

Glade Cross Mission

Deacioness Bedell and group of seminoles at Mission Village on Tamiami Trail.

Multicolored rectangular bag with drawstring closure at top. Flat base constructed of palmetto bark fiber. Bottom two inches of sides are straight on the short sides and slightly bowed out on the long sides, rigid, and constructed of open coiled…

Multicolored rectangular bag with drawstring closure at top. Flat base constructed of palmetto bark fiber. Bottom two inches of sides are straight on the short sides and slightly bowed out on the long sides, rigid, and constructed of open coiled…

Tan, shallow rounded rectangular basket. The flat base has four rounded square corners. Twill plaited in the pattern of over two, under two of 1/2” wide split palmetto stems. The sides flare out into a curved rim. The rim is finished with a coil of…

Tan shallow rounded rectangular basket. The flat base has four rounded square corners. Twill plaited in a pattern of over two, under two of 3/8” wide split palmetto stems. The sides flare out into a slightly curved rim. The Sides are woven with…

Tan shallow rounded rectangular winnowing basket. The slightly outwardly rounded base has four square corners. the Center 4” x 4” square of the center base is twill plaited in an open over two, under two pattern of 1/8” wide split palmetto…

Tan shallow rounded rectangular basket. The slightly flat outwardly rounded base has four square corners. The center 8 1/4” x 7 3/4” square of the center base is twill plaited in a pattern of over two, under two of 1/8” wide split palmetto…

Tan shallow rounded rectangular winnowing basket. The slightly outwardly rounded base has four square corners. The center 9 1/2” x 9 1/2” square of the center base is twill plaited in an open over two, under two pattern of 1/8” wide split…

Tan shallow rounded rectangular winnowing basket. The slightly outwardly rounded base has four square corners. The center 9 1/2” x 9 1/2” square of the center base is twill plaited in an open over two, under two pattern of 1/8” wide split…

Tan rectangular upright basket. Flat base and sides. Twill plaited in a patter of over two, under two of 3/8” wide split palmetto stems, fully wrapped with a 3/8” wide split palmetto stem that catches the top horizontal row of plaited split…

Multicolored female doll with striped clothing. Head is round with conical body, both made of palmetto fiber bark, hand sewn with a single strand of brown embroidery floss, and stuffed with unknown fiber. The face is embroidered with a straight red…

Tan wooden carved toy canoe with curved prow. Hand carved of swamp/bald cypress. Lightweight. Interior is slightly hollowed out, with a slightly deeper depression for 4” in center. Carving marks visible.

Tan wooden carved toy canoe with curved prow. Hand carved of swamp/bald cypress. Lightweight. Interior is slightly hollowed out with a slightly deeper depression for 4” in center. Carving marks visible.

Light brown wooden stickball stick. Stick is formed from two pieces of Cyprus wood fastened together with deer hide cord, and warped at the top to form a hoop for a net. The handles are the longest part of the stickball stick at 24”L. The net is…

Light brown wooden stickball stick. Stick is formed from two pieces of Cyprus wood fastened together with deer hide cord, and warped at the top to form a hoop for a net. The handles are the longest part of the stickball stick at 24”L. The net is…

Light brown wooden stickball stick. Stick is formed from two pieces of Cyprus wood fastened together with deer hide cord, and warped at the top to form a hoop for a net. The handles are the longest part of the stickball stick at 21”L. The net is…

Light brown wooden stickball stick. Stick is formed from two pieces of Cyprus wood fastened together with deer hide cord, and warped at the top to form a hoop for a net. The handles are the longest part of the stickball stick at 22”L. The net is…