- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Allen Green, basketmaker, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 1977 July 18
- Creator:
- Rosenbaum, Art
- Date of Original:
- 1977-07-18
- Subject:
- Basket making--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Basket makers--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Artisans--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Slavery--Georgia--Sapelo Island - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, McIntosh County, Sapelo Island, 31.39745, -81.27871 - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Art Rosenbaum interviews Allen Green, a basketmaker in Sapelo Island, Georgia. Green talks about learning basketmaking as a child in 1918 and eventually developing it into a trade. Currently is baskets are sold to people from all over the world. He learned basketmaking from his grandfather, Allen Smith, who was a slave. He discusses the difference between his baskets and his grandfather's, which were used for volume measurement. Run time: 00:24:06.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-2526-01
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-2526-01
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
