Vegetable carvings by Pam Maneeratana

Artisans

Fieldwork

Arts, Asian

Asian Americans

Decorative arts

Asian American arts

Material culture

Asians

Thai Americans

Vegetables

Sculpture

Kitchens

Vegetable carving

Carvers (Decorative artists)

Eighteen color slides. Images of artist Pam Maneeratara's carved fruit and vegetables. Called Kae Sa Luk, this is a 700 year-old craft taught to school girls while learning culinary skills. The usual motifs is floral. She uses a bird's beak knife, which was specially ordered from Thailand. Pam's mother was the cook for Bahn Thai, a family-owned restaurant in Tallahassee. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1987-08

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 57

S91-690 - S91-707

Florida Folk Arts Survey

Belland, Merri

Maneeratana, Pam, 1952-

Thai American

Asian American

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