Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
by Joyce V. Coakley
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Sweetgrass baskets: ancient African art -- Gullah -- Places: Christ Church: the cultural repository -- Historical happenings -- Flowers and other vendors -- Home life: house, food, and medicine -- Migration to success -- School: the institution of hope -- Churches and religious traditions -- Just ordinary people.Tags
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Author Joyce V. Coakley presents this remarkable pictorial history of a fascinating art and people. She is a Mount Pleasant native, expert basket maker, writer, and historian
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
- Important places
- South Carolina, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Art & Design, Home & Garden
- DDC/MDS
- 746.41 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Fashion Design / Weaving, Knitting, Embroidery Needlework and handwork Basketry
- LCC
- E185.93 .S7 .C63 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
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- 33
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- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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