Close-up of Lucreaty Clark finishing her white oak basket

Title

• Close-up of Lucreaty Clark finishing her white oak basket

Image Number

• FS79852A

Year

• Not after 1979

Series Title

• General: Folklife Collection.
• Specific: Folklife Collection Lucreaty Clark Slide Tape Program

General Note

• Lucreaty Clark was born in Jefferson County in 1904. She learned to make white oak baskets from her parents, who learned from their parents. Originally these sturdy baskets were used to hold cotton and carry vegetables. The tradition of white oak basket making has been carried on by Lucreaty Clark's grandson, Alphonso Jennings.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Bulger, Peggy A.

Physical Description

• 1 slide - col.

Subject Term

• White oak basketry
• Basket making
• Baskets
• Craft
• Equipment, Domestic arts
• Domestic arts
• Material culture
• Hand
• Weaving
• Hand weaving
• Basket making
• Handicraft
• African American basket makers
• White oak

Geographic Term

• Florida.

Personal Subject

• Clark, Lucreaty J., 1904-1986.

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