Margaret Garrison and her apprentice Barbara Turner making baskets

Basket maker

Fieldwork

Apprentices

Basket making

African Americans

Basketry

Baskets

Material culture

Teaching of folklore

Basket work

Containers

Pine needle crafts

Twenty-seven color slides. 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 Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1986-04-29

Florida Folklife Program

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Still Image

S1577

v. 64

S93-433- S93-455

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Roller, Peter

Garrison, Margaret, 1944-

Turner, Barbara

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