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Basketmaker Marie Manigault talks about how men used to make the most baskets.
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Maggie Manigault talks about the "bones" - the tools she uses for basketmaking.
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A plastic cord that used to be used in basketmaking
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Maggie Manigault talk about other people who sew.
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Maggie Manigault talks about putting young children in baskets to sleep.
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Maggie Manigault talks about how her grandfather made oak baskets.
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Maggie Manigault talks about using pine knots as decoration.
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Milledge Gilchrist at home and with his grandson
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Born and raised on a sharecroppers’ farm in Pelzer, South Carolina and one of thirteen children, Arnold grew up in a world where blues music did not exist, at least to his devoutly religious parents...
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Few vernacular art forms have made as impressive a mark on American culture as the Blues. From the expressive experiences of African-American life, skilled musicians fashioned a distinctive idiom that...
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A song from "Bill Wells & the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass".
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A song from "Bill Wells & the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass".
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Mary Vanderhorst talks about competition and how basketmakers work together.
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Basketmaker Mary Vanderhorst talks about places that men go to gather materials.
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Mary Vanderhorst talks about tourism and basketmaking.
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Mary Vanderhorst talks about how she learned basket making as a child.
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Basketmaker from Mt. Pleasant, SC (Charleston County).
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Basketmaker Nathaniel Washington talks about laying out the ribs of the basket.
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Nathaniel Washington talks about wetting the wood splits.
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Nathaniel Washington talks about different parts of tree.
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Nathaniel Washington explains the steps in making baskets.
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Basketmaker Nathaniel Washington talks about the process of cutting the wood.
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Basketmaker from Mt. Pleasant, SC (Charleston County). Another basketmaker from the legendary basketmaking family of "Manigault Corner." According to Maggie "she has been doing it for so long that she...