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Mary Jane Bennett talks about the appreciation for baskets and basketmaking
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Mary Jane Bennett talks about ancestry and heritage.
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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 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.
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Researcher Dale Rosengarten reads a passage from a Penn School program dating the first year that basketmaking was taught at the school.
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Leroy Browne explains how the bulrush was dried, but the palmetto was kept green.
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Leroy Browne explains where to find materials for the baskets.