Schildkrout, Enid
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1941 November 19 -
Gender
- female
Occupations
Places
- Namibia (Place of Birth)
- United States (Associated Country)
- England (Other)
- Great Britain (Other)
- Ghana (Other)
- Burkina Faso (Other)
- Nigeria (Other)
- Mali (Other)
- Senegal (Other)
- Côte d'Ivoire (Other)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) (Other)
Topics
Languages Used
- English
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1149
Abstract
Collection contains documents based on the traveling exhibition (orginially entitled, Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents (2008-2010) which traced "the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and American staring from the domestication of rice in Africa two centuries ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. "The exhibition placed Lowcountry basketry in a larger context,...
Dates:
1936-2017, and undated ; Majority of material found within 1998 - 2015