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Mary Jane Bennett talks about when basketmaking began and subsequent changes.
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Basketmaker from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Mary Jane and husband Jessie come from a long line of basketmakers. Mary Jane would make trips to Charleston as a young girl to deliver her mother's...
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Bennett discusses new designs, special occasion baskets customers request, and uses of pine needle, sweetgrass, and palm in basket weaving.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.
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Bennett instructing students.
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Bennett’s family used sweetgrass baskets for corn and rice, but mostly the baskets were sold to supplement family income.
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Mary Jane Bennett other family members that weave.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about the appreciation for baskets and basketmaking
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Bennett provides a history of basket making at the Boone Hall rice plantation and the uses of the fanner basket.
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Jessie Bennett describes the places he looks for sweetgrass.
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Bennett relates how the children in her family would help her mother make baskets by beginning the bottoms.
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Bennett identifies and gives the usage for the baskets she makes.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about curing sweetgrass and bulrush.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about her baskets from her youth.
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Vintage footage from this 1976 documentary, Bennett talks about business at her basket stand while she demonstrates how she builds up a basket.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about selling baskets at fairs and shows.