Gullah Sweetgrass Coiled Chip and Dip Basket Charlestown Mt. Pleasant SC Large

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Gullah Sweetgrass Coiled Chip and Dip Basket Charlestown, Mt. Pleasant, SC LargeWhat a work of art! Signed on the bottom by the artist Evonne Green 4/21/01. Beautiful coiled chip and dip basket design. Hand crafted in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, by the descendants of the Gullah, who came here from Africa. Approximate dimensions: 4" high, 18" at widest point. Base on bottom has a diameter of 10.25". Bottom has a couple loops of palmetto fronds missing or were never there, but this does not affect the beauty or usability of this lovely work of art and superior craftsmanship. Untold hours of work go in to making such lovely baskets.Coiled baskets are handwoven from one continuous strand of sweetgrass, bundles of bulrush and pine needles sewn together. Palmetto leaves are woven tightly around the coils of sweetgrass and provide the banding needed to join the continuous coil as it spirals.Baskets similar to this one are on display at the Smithsonian. Sweetgrass basket making is one of the very few American folk art media that still exists. Descendants of African slaves who worked the South Carolina rice plantations continue to fashion sweetgrass baskets by hand and sell them in the Charleston and Mt. Pleasant, SC, markets and along the coastal highway. As development encroaches, the availability of materials used -- bulrush, palmetto read more

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