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Box 5

 Container

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Contains 30 Results:

Exhibit Loan Request: Charleston Museum, 16 May 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes regarding baskets and rice tools in the museum's collection.

Dates: 16 May 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Ray Crooks , February 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Holds handwritten notes and flyer regarding sweetgrass basket presentation at the Avery Research Center.

Dates: February 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Edith Howle, 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten notes regarding Howle's basket collection.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: McKissick Museum, 2006, and undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence, object report with images, handwritten notes, and "Row Upon Row" brochure.

Dates: 2006, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Minerva McLendon Folder 1 of 2, 2004-2008

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Contains typed and handwritten correspondence, and treatment report for a "round coiled grass basket with lid."

Dates: 2004-2008
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Minerva McLendon Folder 2 of 2, 2004-2005

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Contains color photographs and negatives of a coiled basket "nearly 200 years old." Also holds images tombs documenting the Weatherford and Murray Family.

Dates: 2004-2005
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Amy L. Moore, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Handwritten note regarding "wedge fanner basket."

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Penn Center , 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten notes, brochure and information sheet regarding "Trustee and Advisory Board."

Dates: 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island, 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Holds "acquisition images" of Sweetgrass baskets, and brochures.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Smithsonian Museums, 2006-2007

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence and press release regarding Lonnie G. Bunch, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Dates: 2006-2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements
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