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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.
Basketry
Jimmie Dinkins explains the first steps in the process of making a kudzu basket.
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Mary Jane Bennett other family members that weave.
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Jessie Bennett describes the places he looks for sweetgrass.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about curing sweetgrass and bulrush.
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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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Leroy Browne explains that pine needles in the area are the short needle pine and are not that good for basketmaking.
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Leroy Browne talks about the necessity of basketmaking.
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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...
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Leroy Browne explains the story of how baby Moses was found in a bulrush basket.
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Leroy Browne talks about when his father gathered bulrush.