Fanner Basket
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Object Details
- Created by
- Mary A. Jackson, American, born 1945
- Description
- A coiled sweetgrass basket made by Mary A. Jackson. The large, circular fanner basket has a flat bottom with sides extending just a few inches above the bottom to form a flat, shallow basket. The basket features different striations of lighter and darker colored grasses and pine needles in a uniform pattern radiating out from a center circle of darker pine needles.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Juliette Bethea in memory of Flora Wilson Bethea
- ca. 1994
- Object number
- 2017.82.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- baskets
- Medium
- sweetgrass, bulrush, palmetto fronds, pine needles
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 × 22 × 22 in. (5.1 × 55.9 × 55.9 cm)
- Place made
- Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- American South
- Art
- Communities
- Craftsmanship
- Design
- Domestic life
- Folklife
- Foodways
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2017.82.5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5409acbcf-689a-4823-a549-79a82b30deac
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