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How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry

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How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry
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This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.I first visited St. Helena Island off the South Carolina coast in 2021. Like Louisiana, it was one of the few places I had traveled in the United States where I could hear Liberia in the way people spoke. I do not know how to fully explain it. It was in the rhythm of Gullah speech, what my mother would ca

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