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Box 17

 Container

Contains 28 Results:

Drafts of Audio Interview Agreement and Photo Release, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Created during the exhibition's initial title of Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents. In junction with the Avery Research Center, as part of the Lowcountry Heritage Initiative, this project worked with basket makers, community leader, and cultural instituitions to educate the public about the history of sweetgrass basketry and current threats to its survival. Hence, Avery was charged with creating "a large-format book of portraits and an...
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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.1: Sweetgrass Family Album

"Lowcountry Heritage Workshop: Potential Participants", 1 November 2005

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Holds typescript of contact information with brief biographical sketches of potential participants.

Dates: 1 November 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

"Lowcountry Heritage Initiative Sweetgrass Steering Committee Meeting documents", 2005, 2007, and undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Holds agenda, handwritten notes, NEH application narratives (2005), and contact information.

Dates: 2005, 2007, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Work Plans and Itineraries , 2005-2008, and undated

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

Contains listing of potential sites (points of sale of Lowcountry baskets, rice plantations and interpretive centers, museums, historic sites and settlements in Mt. Pleasant, and ecological sites.) Includes site check lists, and Lowcountry plantation descriptions.

Dates: 2005-2008, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, 2008, and undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Holds event programs and flyers, postcards, and booklet, "An educator's guide to the National Park System."

Dates: 2008, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: Caw Caw Interpretative Center, 2007, and undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten notes dated 12 December 2007, and brochures.

Dates: 2007, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: Mansfield Plantation, Rice Museum, and Hopsewee Plantation, 16 January 2008, and undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Holds DVD-Rs labeled, "Sweetgrass Project," printed images from the DVD-Rs, and brochures/flyers for all the sites indicated.

Dates: 16 January 2008, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: Hobcaw Barony, 2008

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Holds invitation and rack cards.

Dates: 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: Middleton Place, 2006-2007

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Holds handwritten notes dated 5 December 2007, in addition to catalog booklet, brochures, and rack cards.

Dates: 2006-2007
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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide

Heritage Tour Site: McLeod Plantation , 2009, and undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Holds typescripts, "History of McLeod Plantation."

Dates: 2009, 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 12: Lowcountry Heritage Initiative / 12.2: Heritage Tour Guide
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