Examples of Margaret Garrison's baskets

Sweetgrass baskets

Containers

Material culture

Domestic arts

Basket work

Baskets

Basket making

Basketry

Craft

Basket maker

Seven color slides. For images of Garrison, see S 1577, v. 37, slides S86-2029 - S 86-2052; for an interview, see S 1576, box 23, C86-194. Garrison grew up in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, but lived in Jacksonville from the 1960s on. She learned sweetgrass basket making, a New World adaptation of an Old World skill, at age three from her family in South Carolina. She made her basket by coiling pine needles and sweetgrass, then sewing them with palmetto frond strips, using a spoon (called a bone) to help bind the strips through. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1985-11-12

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 37

S86-2029 - S86-2052

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Garrison, Margaret, 1944-

African American

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