Gullah sweetgrass basket
One of the oldest handcrafts of African origin in the United States is the hand-woven winnowing sieve, a shallow basket that was used during the Colonia Era to separate the rice seed from its chaff. Made from indigenous bulrush, sweetgrass is a strong yet supple marsh grass that thrives in the sandy soil of the coastal regions of the US South Atlantic.
culture native craft salt marsh coastAuthor(s) | Jane Hawkey |
Author Company | Integration and Application Network |
Date Created | 2014-12-31 |
Album | Human > Culture/Archaeology |
Type | Symbol |
Project(s) | Synthesis of South Atlantic Ecosystem Health Indicators |
Dimensions | 444 x 500 |
Filesize | 9.0 kB (svg) 43.1 kB (png) |
Number of Downloads | 561 |
Filetype(s) | SVG PNG |
License | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Required Attribution | Jane Hawkey, Integration and Application Network (ian.umces.edu/media-library) |