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Description

A rice fanner basket identified as being made by an enslaved person on the South Carolina coast. The large shallow, round tray shaped basket is made of reeds, rush and palmetto coiled and woven together. A faded purple string is woven through the basket on one side and knotted inside the basket.
Format:
Rush, Reed, Plant Fiber
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Record Contributed By

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Agriculture
  4. American South
  5. Craftsmanship
  6. Foodways
  7. Labor
  8. Labor Unions
  9. Old Slave Mart Museum
  10. Rice Farming
  11. Rural Life
  12. Slaver

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