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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/CM00300002/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Alligator roping and wrestling, 1921-1927
- Creator:
- Matlack, Claude Carson, 1878-1944.
- Publication Date:
- 1921/1927
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 6 photos. : black and white; 18 x 13 cm.
Notes
- Abstract:
- Photographs depicting alligator roping and wrestling, 1921-1927. Views of men capturing and wrestling alligators at Musa Isle and Coppinger's Tropical Gardens. -- 1. Henry Coppinger, Jr., January 28, 1921. no. 50-30. -- 2. Seminole Indian wrestling alligator, probably at Musa Isle, March 4, 1924. no. 95-30. -- 3. Alligator wrestling at Musa Isle, February 15, 1927. no. 119-30. -- 4. Two Seminoles carrying alligator at Musa Isle. Left, Henry "Cowboy" Billie. Right, Tony Tommie. February 15, 1927. no. 126-30. -- 5. Seminole Indians releasing alligator in pen at Musa Isle. Left, Henry "Cowboy" Billie. Right, Tony Tommie. February 15, 1927. no. 129-30. -- 6. Tony Tommie about to rope an alligator in the Miami River, Musa Isle, February 15, 1927. no. 132-30.
- General Note:
- From Photographs : series 39.
- General Note:
- Henry Coppinger, Jr., made alligator wrestling popular. Seminole Indians learned from him, then made the ritual their own. Tony Tommie (Panther clan) was headman for the Seminole village at Musa Isle. (Headmen were tribal spokesmen, but not chiefs.)
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