Gullah Fanner Basket
Object Details
- Artist
- Lynette Youson, born Charleston, SC 1964
- Exhibition Label
- Much of the elegance of this basket is derived from its utilitarian form. The fanner basket is among the most traditional and earliest coiled baskets made by African Americans and was used to separate rice grains from husks. Lynette Youson began to sew scraps of grass at her great-grandmother's side when she was only five, and continues this family tradition today.
- Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
- 2002
- Object number
- 2011.47.76
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Fiber
- Crafts
- Medium
- sweetgrass, bulrush, pine needles, and palmetto fronds
- Dimensions
- 3 1/2 x 24 1/8 in. diam. (8.9 x 61.3 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2011.47.76
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7db7f7cc0-3580-4943-8379-348d30f400ea
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