This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
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 10. 11. 12. 13.