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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...

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Basket Styles | Digital Traditions 1

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Basket Styles | Digital Traditions

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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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When Basketmaking Began | Digital Traditions

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Mary Jane Bennett talks about when basketmaking began and subsequent changes.

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Ancestry and Heritage | Digital Traditions

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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Instructing Students | Digital Traditions 2

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Instructing Students | Digital Traditions

Episode 2

Bennett instructing students.

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Family Usage | Digital Traditions 3

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Family Usage | Digital Traditions

Episode 3

Bennett’s family used sweetgrass baskets for corn and rice, but mostly the baskets were sold to supplement family income.

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Other Family Members | Digital Traditions

Episode 3

Mary Jane Bennett other family members that weave.

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Appreciation for Basketmaking | Digital Traditions

Episode 4

Mary Jane Bennett talks about the appreciation for baskets and basketmaking

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions The Fanner Basket | Digital Traditions 4

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The Fanner Basket | Digital Traditions

Episode 4

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 | Digital Traditions

Episode 5

Jessie Bennett describes the places he looks for sweetgrass.

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Mother's Influence | Digital Traditions 5

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Mother's Influence | Digital Traditions

Episode 5

Bennett relates how the children in her family would help her mother make baskets by beginning the bottoms.

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Bennett on Types | Digital Traditions 6

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Bennett on Types | Digital Traditions

Episode 6

Bennett identifies and gives the usage for the baskets she makes.

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Curing Sweetgrass and Bullrush | Digital Traditions

Episode 6

Mary Jane Bennett talks about curing sweetgrass and bulrush.

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Baskets from Youth | Digital Traditions

Episode 7

Mary Jane Bennett talks about her baskets from her youth.

Mary Jane Bennett Audio Transcripts | Digital Traditions Low Country Basket Sewer | Digital Traditions 7

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Low Country Basket Sewer | Digital Traditions

Episode 7

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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Fairs and Shows | Digital Traditions

Episode 8

Mary Jane Bennett talks about selling baskets at fairs and shows.

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