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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
