Necessity | Digital Traditions
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Leroy Browne talks about the necessity of basketmaking.Jimmie Dinkins explains the first steps in the process of making a kudzu basket.
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Leroy Browne talks about the necessity of basketmaking.Audio
Resident of St. Helena Island, SC (Beaufort County). His father, George Brown, taught basketmaking at the Penn School on St. Helena Island in the early 20th Century. The school was founded in the...Audio
Leroy Browne explains the story of how baby Moses was found in a bulrush basket.Audio
Leroy Browne talks about when his father gathered bulrush.Audio
Leroy Browne explains the modern restrictions on gathering bulrush. He can no longer freely go in the creek and marsh to gather materials since the lands are protected.Audio
Researcher Dale Rosengarten reads a passage from a Penn School program dating the first year that basketmaking was taught at the school.Audio
Louise White talks about the "Bone," the tool used to make baskets.Audio
Louise White hopes younger people will take up basketmaking.Audio
Louise White talks about why her basket stand is on a particular side of the highway.