SEMINOLE INDIANS FLORIDA 1951 EDUCATIONAL FILM 52034

This color documentary is about the Seminole Indians in the Florida Everglades. It was produced in 1951. It is narrated by sportscaster Ray Christensen. An artist sits in a Seminole Indian village and uses pastels to draw what he sees, including the totem pole (:43-2:32). Their huts have no walls and thatched roofs made of palmetto leaves. They use Cypress dugout canoes to move through the water (2:33-3:12). A woman washes clothes by beating them with a stick (3:14-3:27). A young woman combs her long hair forward, puts in a band, and wraps the hair into a pug (ball) at her forehead in a 1960s hairstyle. An older woman, wearing many layers of colorful beads around the neck, has her bun on top, a 1920s style, and cut with short bangs in the front. Another style begun in the 1930s that acts as a brim is to put the hair in a forward ponytail, wrap a piece of stiff cardboard around the head, comb the hair forward over it, and put a hairnet around all of it to hold the hair in place (3:28-4:20). A woman wearing ma
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