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Excerpt from 1986 USC News production. Dale Rosengarten discusses sweetgrass basketry as a part of the Charleston tourist trade, as well as a one of the most highly recognized African-American art...
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Boozer uses a brace and gouge to hollow out the underside of the decoy body. Footage courtesy of SC Educational Television.
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Boozer explains how he obtains the white cedar for his duck decoys. Footage courtesy of SC Educational Television.
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Basket selling and issues with material scarcity.
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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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Bennett relates how the children in her family would help her mother make baskets by beginning the bottoms.
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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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Bennett identifies and gives the usage for the baskets she makes.
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Bennett provides a history of basket making at the Boone Hall rice plantation and the uses of the fanner basket.