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Box 5

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Contains 30 Results:

Exhibit Loan Requests: Atlanta History Center Collection, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Contains various brochures and rack cards of exhibits and folk arts collections.

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

Exhibit Loan Requests: Avery Research Center Collection , 2006, and undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Contains Avery's "Sweet Grass Basket Collection Inventory" and handwritten notes.

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

Loan Request Letters and Loan Agreement, 2006, and undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Written by the Museum for African Art for the "Transcendent Traditions" exhibition.

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

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 / <title render="italic">Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art</title> collection / Series 5: Exhibit Loan Requests and Agreements

Exhibit Loan Request: Bobbie Auld, 2006, and undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Holds laminated newspaper article and email.

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

Exhibit Loan Request: South Carolina Arts Commission, 2006

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Contains email with Sweetgrass basket images.

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