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LOGGER'S SHEET

LOGGER: Andrew Connors
REEL NUMBER: Tape 4 Side 2 Cassette        
STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/26/88             
PRESENTOR: John Vlach
GROUP NAME: Material World: Preserving, Presenting, Pretending
REGION/STYLE:

[[2 column table]]
| PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| Ray Brassieur | Folklorist, St. Martinville, Louisiana |
| Liz Fleming, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina | Basketmaker |
| Henry Glassie | Folklorist, Philadelphia, PA |
| Marjorie Hunt | Folklorist, Washington, D.C. |

CONTENTS
1. Intro by Vlach, short explanation of concept of material culture
2. Ray Brassieur - Why an interest in Material Culture?
Textile weaving/industry of Acadians/Cajuns; changing headles on a demonstration loom
3. Liz Fleming - Techniques of sweet grass/palmetto woven baskets; rice fanner baskets; newer, fruit baskets; problems with access to sweet grass dunes to collect materials
4. Marjorie Hunt - The National Cathedral stone carvers, workshop communities, brodening interest in continuing employment for these craftsmen
5. Henry Glassie - Advantages of museums and publications; [[crossed out]] [[?]] [[crossed out]] tyrany of the written word; material culture compensates for fact that historically, most people didn't write, but they did make objects; encounter people through the things that they made; museum's problem is making things represent their creators/[[crossed out]] [[?]] [[crossed out]] users
6. Ray Brassieur - Geographer/Folkflorist, education and becoming a folklorist
7. HG - Stanton, VA. Museum of American Character; German, North Irish, English, and American farms; Plymouth plantation recreation of 17th century construction
8. Public question about "boring" collections of objects
9. HG - Learn the language of the objects; folk artists should not have to be relegated to the Mall while "high" arts get the marble palaces
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