Digital Traditions was developed to provide access to the Folklife Resource Center (FRC) at McKissick Museum. For thirty years, deeply rooted traditions like quilting, pottery, basketry, communal foodways, and folk music have been documented through audio, video, and photography.
Find special projects that have been digitized for exploration.
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by Vennie Deas-Moore. A South Carolina native, Deas-Moore is a photographer and writer who specializes in the cultural history of the Lowcountry, especially the rice culture of Georgetown County. My...
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By Dr. Will Goins. Goins is the president of the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes of South Carolina, a non-profit organization dedicated to Native American cultural issues...
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by Dr. Stephen Criswell. Criswell is Assistant Professor of English & Native American Studies at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. Filet of flounder, salt and pepper catfish, deviled crab...
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by Dee Dunagan. Dunagan is a Chemical Engineering student in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2007 class "Folklife in America." In Greenwood, South...
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Dr. John Vlach discusses clay and lime glazes
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Cinda Baldwin discusses the importance of Edgefield stoneware
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Dr. John Vlach discusses wood ash and clay glazes and the firing process
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Dr. John Vlach describes Edgefield as a melting pot or "kiln" of three distinct cultures
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Cinda Baldwin discusses the decline of Edgefield stoneware
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Cinda Baldwin gives an overview of the alkaline-glazed stoneware produced in Edgefield
