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The traditional arts of basketry, pottery, textiles, weaving, and woodworking are demonstrated. 
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Verna Suggs Duncan Photos | Digital Traditions
Verna Suggs Duncan Photos | Digital Traditions
Episode 2

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Verna Suggs Duncan assisted her father, William D. Suggs (1878-1945) at his pottery in the town of Smithville in eastern Mississippi. After she married Joseph Duncan (1909-1963), her husband learned...
Secret Code | Gullah Music
Secret Code | Gullah Music

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Students will understand that music and material culture became a mode of covert communication between slaves. Aunt Pearlie Sue is our guide as students uncover hidden messages in the work songs...
Stewart Family Photos | Digital Traditions
Stewart Family Photos | Digital Traditions
Episode 2

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Carrie Stewart and Gerald Stewart, Louisville, Winston County. Interview recorded June 1981. Gerald Stewart came from a deeply rooted family potting tradition. By 1888, his father Homer Wade Stewart...
Stephen Ferrell Photos | Digital Traditions
Stephen Ferrell Photos | Digital Traditions

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Stephen Ferrell has been an advocate for the alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery tradition for almost forty years. Ferrell and his father, Terry, began collecting and studying alkaline-glazed stoneware...
Rosa & Winton Eugene Photos | Digital Traditions
Rosa & Winton Eugene Photos | Digital Traditions
Episode 5

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Eugene Pottery, Cowpens, Cherokee County. Interview recorded June 2007 as the Folklife Resource Center continues to document pottery traditions in South Carolina. Winton Eugene is a self-taught potter...
Applying Glazes | Digital Traditions
Episode 2

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Eugene Pottery, Cowpens, Cherokee County. Interview recorded June 2007 as the Folklife Resource Center continues to document pottery traditions in South Carolina. Winton Eugene is a self-taught potter...