Year

1981

Video Details

28:40; Color; Sound; FV-131; S. 1615

Description

This 1981 documentary focuses on the life of Jefferson County basket weaver Lucreaty Clark, a Florida Folk Heritage Award recipient who learned the tradition from her mother. Clark demonstrates the process, from gathering oak splits to weaving the basket. Clark describes her family history, the importance of religion in her life and in the Black community, and how people in the community have used the baskets. There is also footage of a service at Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church in Lamont and historical photographs and video footage of the community.

Contributors

National Endowment for the Humanities
Florida Endowment for the Humanities

Corporate Creator

Florida Folklife Program
Florida Department of State
WJCT (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Corporate Subject

Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church (Lamont, Fla.)
United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover)

Geographic Subject

Jefferson County
Lamont
Aucilla River (Ga. and Fla.)

Coverage

Late 20th-Century Florida (1968-2000)

Personal Subject

Perry, Sam
Clark, Lucreaty J., 1904-1986
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Hawkins, Jesse L.
Starling, L. C.

Subject

Farms -- Florida -- Jefferson County -- Lamont
Material culture
Craft
African American women
African American basket makers
Material culture
Basket makers
Artisans
Handicraft
Decorative arts
Basket making
Domestic arts
Equipment, Domestic arts
White oak basketry
Basketry
Baptism
Water -- Religious aspects
Rites of passage
Belief and custom