Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Verbatim coll. place:
South Carolina; Beaufort; Hilton Head
Culture or time period:
Gullah
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1939
Materials:
Bulrush (material) and Palmetto leaf (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
December 16, 1974
Context of use:
Winnowing basket. Rice winnowing, corn meal, etc. Also carrying on the head, general agricultural use, receptacle. (fide Greg Day, doctoral candidate, Rutgers University, July 1976)
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 48.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Fanner basket". Context of use: "Width of base of fanner baskets varied to suit the user, but the wall is ALWAYS 8 coils high, also in corresponding Angolan fanners." (fide Greg Day, doctoral candidate, Rutgers University, July 1976)
Loans:
S1993-1994 #11: American Craft Museum (September 27, 1994–March 14, 1995) and S2018-2019 #5: Berkeley Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (March 1, 2019–August 5, 2019)