| Filming the Lucreaty Clark video | Filming the Lucreaty Clark video | Still Image | Documentary videos
Video recording
Television cameras
African Americans
Folklorists
Basket making
Interviewing
Sound recording
Fieldwork
Photography
Folklife
Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Filming the Lucreaty Clark video
- Date
- 1981-03-04
- Description
- Twenty-one color slides. Images of the filming of the Lucreaty Clark video. Includes images of Clark being filmed and interviewed, folklorists Bulger and Dyen at work, and the film crew videotaping. Records of the project can be found in S 1627, box 2. The finished video can be found in S 1615.
- Collection
| 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
| I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It | I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It | Moving Image | Basket maker
Documentary videos
Video recording
Television
Interviewing on television
African Americans
Elderly, the
White oak
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
Interviews
Fieldwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- One video cassette (VHS) 28:46 minutes A documentary of white oak basket maker Lucreaty Clark. Grammley narrated. Bulger and Dyen were co-producers. A co-production of the FFP and WJCT, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Collection
| Images from the North Florida Folklife Project | Images from the North Florida Folklife Project | Still Image | African Americans
Churches
Church services
Church membership
Religious rites
Christianity
Basket making
Baskets
Woven goods
Metal craft
Material culture
Blacksmithing
Workplace
Containers
Domestic arts
Basket maker
Blacksmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images from the North Florida Folklife Project
- Date
- Description
- Five proof sheets with 178 black and white images. P78-286, 290 Blacksmith Thomas Rains in Monticello (36 images each) P78-287 Basket maker Lucreaty Clark in Lamont (34 images) P78-288, 289 Mt. Zion Holiness Church in White Springs (36 images each) c. 1978
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| Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen | Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen | Still Image | 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_photo.jpg |
Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen
- Date
- 1994-07-23
- Description
- 56 color slides. 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
| Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen | Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen | Still Image | 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_photo.jpg |
Images of white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen
- Date
- 1994
- Description
- Five proof sheets with 166 black and white images (plus negatives); 52 color slides. 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
| 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.
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| a_s1576_t80-097 | Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark | Sound | Field recordings
Oral histories
Interviews
African Americans
Basket making
Religious songs
Foodways
Domestic arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark
- Date
- 1980-10-29
- Description
- Ten reel-to-reel audiotapes, copied onto audio cassettes C81-1 through C81-9. Interview with white oak basket maker Clark. Her neighbor, Anderson, joins her for part of the interview. She discusses growing up, her family history, life in rural Florida on a farm, cooking (hogs, squirrels, nuts, greens, mussels, etc), household chores, wood stoves versus gas stones, basket making, types of oak, farming, hunting, her church, gospel music, and her conversion to Christianity. She and Anderson also sing several religious songs.
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| a_s1576_t80-105 | Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Family farming
Sugarcane grinding
Agriculture
Farm life
Animals
Domestic animals
Stoves, Wood
Equipment, domestic arts
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Farmers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry
- Date
- 1980-10-29
- Description
- One reel to reel. Interview with farmers who were neighbors of Lucreaty Clark (she also talks on the recording). Topics include farming, farm animals, marriage, wood stoves, cane grinding, chores, railroad work, and mules. For images of Perry's farm, see S 1577, box 17, box 83.
- Collection
| 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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