Ancestry and Heritage | Digital Traditions
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.Jimmie Dinkins explains the first steps in the process of making a kudzu basket.
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.Audio
Mary Jane Bennett other family members that weave.Audio
Jessie Bennett describes the places he looks for sweetgrass.Audio
Mary Jane Bennett talks about curing sweetgrass and bulrush.Photo
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...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.