Title:
Grass roots [videorecording] : the enduring art of the lowcountry basket / a film by Dana Sardet ; produced by the Center for the Documentary at the College of Charleston in association with Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture, [and] the Museum for African Art, New York.
Author:
Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publication Information:
[Charleston, S.C.] : Center for the Documentary, 2008.
Call Number:
TT879.B3 G73 2008
Abstract:
Basket makers of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina are filmed harvesting materials used to create their baskets, making their baskets, and talking about the meaning of their work. This documentary explores the current state of this kind of coiled grass basketry in the lowcountry of South Carolina and what its future may be.
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Physical Description:
1 videodisc (27 min.) : sd., col., b&w photos ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"Distributed with assistance from the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor and the Avery Research Center" -- label on outer wrapper.
Funding provided by Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Humanities Council (S.C.), South Carolina Arts Commission.
Also includes 2 short video clips: A different day : the Penn School (5:58 min.), which provides the eyewitness acount of LeRoy E. Brown of basket making at the Penn School on St. Helena Island, South Caroina in the early 20th century; with period photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner ; and African rice & baskets (5:05 min.), which depicts the rice-growing regions of Sierra Leone and Senegal where today villagers make colorful coiled baskets with similarities to basket making in lowcountry South Carolina.
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Different day : the Penn School.
African rice & baskets.
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