SOUTH CAROLINA SWEET GRASS LIDDED BASKET

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SOUTH CAROLINA SWEET GRASS LIDDED BASKET:
$20.00

Sweetgrass basketmaking has been a part of the Mt. Pleasant community, just across the bridge from Charleston, S. C., for three hundred years. Brought to the area by slaves who came from West Africa. It is a traditional art form which has been passed on from generation to generation. Today, it is one of the oldest art forms of African origin in the United States. Mt. Pleasant enjoys the distinction of being the only place where this particular type of basketry is practiced. Here, the descendents of slaves from West Africa continue the tradition. This is a fairly new basket which stands about 3 1/2\" tall with lid and is 7\" across.