Fanning Rice: Tracing Windward Coast Basketry in the Lowcountry
This research traces the shared origins of Liberian basket weaving and Gullah sweetgrass basketry through the Windward Coast slave trade. It will explore how “fannuh” baskets, used for rice winnowing in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, served as both agricultural tools and vessels of cultural memory.
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