| a_s1576_t79-023 | First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Life histories
Oral history
Personal experience narratives
White oak
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
Family history
Marriage
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Childbirth
Children
Supernatural legends
Beliefs and cultures
Domestic arts
Midwives
Healers
Basket maker
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project
- Date
- 1979-10-31
- Description
- Six reel to reels. Lucreaty Clark was a white oak basket maker, a tradition that stretched back in her family to antebellum times. In 1979, no one else was making split white oak baskets, and she presumed the tradition would die with her. (In the mid-1980s, she trained her grandson Alphonso Jennings to make white oak baskets.) T79-23: Topics included plantation work, cooking, her first marriage, her children, Brer Rabbit tales, games, and smoking beef. T79-25: Clark discusses how she chooses the white oak to make her baskets, how she splits the wood, her tools, selling the baskets, sues of the baskets, and how her parents taught her the skill. T79-26: Clark talks about raising hogs, Christmas baskets, and various basket types. T79-27: Clark talks about giving birth, weather predictions, raising her kids, snakes in the area, and her grandchildren. T79-28: Recording of Clark making a basket while she narrates throughout the process. Afterwards, she talks about -- and tells -- stories from her childhood, including ghost stories, Brer rabbit tales, and Little Red Riding Hood. T79-29: She discusses marriage and kids, midwives, losing her last child during childbirth, morning sickness, medicinal cures for childbirth pains, birthmarks, pregnancy superstitions, and how to finish a basket.
- Collection
| a_s1576_02_c78-047 | Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark | Sound | Basket maker
Interviews
Basket work
Basket making
Basketry
African Americans
White oak
Family history
Life histories
Agriculture
Family farming
Seed crops
Food preparation
Food habits
Plants
Flora
Harvesting
Healers
Medicine
Fieldwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark
- Date
- 1978-04-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Clarke, born in Jefferson County in 1904, started making white oak baskets when she was 13. She learned to do so from her parents and grandparents and discusses the types of baskets she made and explains how she makes them. She also discusses her grandparents - - who were once slaves - - and talks about the changes Lamont, Florida, has undergone throughout the years. In addition, she talks about planting and harvesting collards, peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, okra, and snap beans, and she discusses cooking collards and snap beans. Side 2: Clarke continues her discussion on foods and wild plants like the palm tree bud [??], polk salad (poisonous), elephant ears, tanion, and pepper grass. Also, she describes home remedies such as mint, ragweed, tallow, turpentine and camphos, castor oil and turpentine, cow water (for whooping cough), "Yellow Gal" (for fever), asaphidity bag. Further, she talks about growing up on a plantation, travels to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, and Naples, Florida, talks about her relatives, and discusses finishing baskets by soaking them in water for a brown finish.
- Collection
| a_s1576_01_c77-026 | Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark | Sound | Interviews
African Americans
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
White oak
Wood craft
Quilts
Textile arts
Design
Decorative arts
Material culture
Fieldwork
Basket maker
Quiltmakers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark
- Date
- 1977-05-18
- Description
- One audio cassette. On side 1 Udell discussed making yo yo quilts. On side 2 Clark discussed how her son gathered White Oak on the Magnolia plantation; how to split oak; how she first started and her history of making the baskets. Much of the interview with Clark was not recorded due to technical difficulties.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-088 | Master tape for the Lucreaty Clark Slide and Tape Program | Sound | Slides (Photography)
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Interviews
Basket making
White oak
African Americans
Baskets
Containers
Demonstrations
Life histories
Oral narratives
Oral education
Oral communication
Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Master tape for the Lucreaty Clark Slide and Tape Program
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One reel to reel (copied onto audio cassette C80-25). A script for the slide program -- an educational outreach program about Lucreaty Clark and her white oak baskets -- can be found in S 1579, box 1, folder: Cassette indexes, C80-1 through C80-37.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-044 | Second Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
African Americans
Basket making
White oak
Storytelling
Tales
Oral narratives
Games
Supernatural legends
Weather
Holidays
Cotton
Basket maker
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Second Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project
- Date
- 1980-05-07
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Interview with white-oak basket maker Lucreaty Clark. She talks primarily about her childhood, including stories, legends, ghost stories, childhood games, folk beliefs, working in the cotton fields, holidays, and her family.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t79-013 | Excerpts from Florida Folklife fieldwork recordings | Sound | Basket maker
Whip maker
Fieldwork
Interviews
Midwifery
Whip making
Whips
Basket making
White oak
Midwives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Excerpts from Florida Folklife fieldwork recordings
- Date
- 1978-04-14
- Description
- One reel to reel. Excerpts from three fieldwork interviews by Bulger and McCallum. The complete interviews can be found on recordings T79-5 (Taylor); C78-47 (Clark); and C78-51 (Sheppard).
- Collection
| a_s1576_63_c96-051 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 4) | Sound | Storytellers
Basket maker
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Basket making
White oak
African Americans
Needlework
Folklore collections
Storytelling
Weaving
Basket work
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_63_c96-052 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 5) | Sound | Musicians
Basket maker
Guitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Basket making
White oak
African Americans
Steel guitars
Music business
Guitarists
Occupational groups
Weaving
Basket work
Occupational folklore | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)
- Date
- 1996-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Jennings continues his discussion of split oak basketry with a demonstration of small basket weaving. McCormick, steel guitar player, discusses how he taught himself to play, his homemade steel guitar and talks about being on the road. McCormick's talk continues on C96-53.
- Collection
| a_s1576_67_c97-067 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7) | Sound | Basket maker
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
African Americans
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
White oak
Woodwork
Wood craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1640_24_tape16 | Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen | Sound | Basket maker
Fieldwork
Apprentices
White oak
Basket making
African Americans
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
Weaving
Axes
Tools
Wood craft
Woodwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen
- Date
- 1994-01-15
- Description
- One audio cassette. Apprentice Steen agreed to learn from Jennings to select, cut, split, and shape white oak strips, and weave them into baskets: four small trash baskets, one market basket, one Easter basket, one laundry basket, and one cotton basket. For more information on Noble, see S 1644, box 11, folder 26. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
- Collection
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