Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry /
Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South...
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2013.
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5903-3 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The beginnings of change
- My time to get involved
- Getting to the grass roots of cultivation
- Getting more involved
- Sweetgrass Utopia in the Southeast - Little St. Simon's Island
- Getting to know the basketmakers
- Sweetgrass Culture Workshop Oct. 24, 1992
- The concept of large scale sweetgrass plantations
- 2nd Site of large scale sweetgrass plantings - McLeod Plantation, James Island
- 3rd Site of large scale sweetgrass plantings - Dill Sanctuary, James Island
- Alternative ways to access sweetgrass
- Sweetgrass biology
- Sweetgrass horticulture -environmental considerations
- Seedling cultural practices
- Field production practices
- Concluding thoughts
- Afterthoughts.