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Box 8

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Staff Only

Contains 23 Results:

Draft: Historical Narrative-Video Script, 2007

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Typescript narrative written by Ted Rosengarten, Ph.D. Includes typescript, "Grass Roots, historical narrative," with Internet printouts of "The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, ad Sierra Leone-American Connection," used as research.

Dates: 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Typescript: "Baskets of Gold", undated

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

Includes comments from basket makers, Joseph Mazyck, Mary Scott, Elizabeth Mazyck, and Henrietta Snype.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Interview Transcript: Allen Green, 2007

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Sent in a email by interviewer Ben Shapiro.

Dates: 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Interview Summary: Yvonne Grovner and Jerome Dixon, 2 April 2007

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Holds typescript for "Tradition/Innovation Fieldwork for SAF.

Dates: 2 April 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Interview Transcript: Barbara and Raymond Manigault, 28 December 2007

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Typescript; interviewed by Dale Rosengarten.

Dates: 28 December 2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Interview Transcript: Mary C. Stanley and Joseph Foreman, 27 December 2006

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Typescript; interviewed by Dale Rosengarten.

Dates: 27 December 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Agreements and Correspondence regarding Music Rights/Soundtrack, 2007-2008, and undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Holds track listing, letters and various printed emails.

Dates: 2007-2008, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Various Handwritten Notes, 2005, and undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A film made by videographer, Dana Sardet, focuses on Mt. Pleasant (SC) basket makers harvesting materials used to create their baskets, making their baskets, and talking about the meaning of their work. "This documentary explores the current state of this kind of coiled grass basketry in the Lowcountry of South Carolina and what its future may be." Holds log books, journals, grant funding documents, video release forms, and correspondence.

Dates: 2005, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Interview: Lavinia Nelson, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

This interview transcript is hand written on one page (back and front)

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production

Video Documentary Production , 2005 - 2006

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Project was initally titled "Vessels of Memory: Sweetgrass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry." Holds email correspondence pertaining to the "South Carolina Commission's Film Production Fund." Also contains Dana Sardet's vita.

Dates: 2005 - 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection / Series 7: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket Video Documentary Production / 7.2: Video Production
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