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The first basket teacher at the Penn School worked to revive and perpetuate the African basket making skills among the children of the Sea Islands. The baskets made had a wide range of utilitarian purposes, from fanning rice to blow away the chaff, to carrying goods to market or storing them within the home.
Courtesy of the South Carolina Library.