A young Seminole woman bends intently over a black Singer sewing machine, her vibrant turquoise cape-blouse and gold skirt blazing against the shadowed thatch of a chickee dwelling — all around her, dozens of hand-sewn palmetto-fiber dolls in miniature patchwork dresses fan out like a rainbow audience. This Curteichcolor chrome card documents daily life at Musa Isle, the celebrated Seminole tourist village that operated near NW 25th Avenue and 16th Street in Miami from the 1930s through the 1960s, where visitors paid to watch alligator wrestling and browse authentic craftwork. The Singer treadle was adopted enthusiastically by Seminole women and became central to the intricate, geometrically patterned patchwork that is now recognized as a major American art form. Each doll on display is a tiny ambassador of that tradition, its skirt a riot of zigzag bands in red, teal, white, and gold.