Rooted in Africa, Raised in America:
The Traditional Arts and Crafts of
African-Americans Across Five Centuries

Illustration Credits

Asante-style drum
Repository: The British Museum

detail, “The Old Plantation,” ca. 1800, artist unknown
Repository: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia. Reproduced with permission.

African Potter, Slide 2: Coil Technique I
Repository: African Pottery, website by Professor Christopher Roy, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History.

African-American Archaeology and Colonowares from the Charleston Judicial Center Site (38CH1708), September 2005 Newsletter
Repository: African Diaspora Archaeology Network

Filming “Digging for Slaves,” Middleburg, FILE: 11.jpg
Repository: Unlocking the Past, website by Professor Leland Ferguson

Wall trench and post holes in slave quarter, Middleburg, FILE: 12.jpg
Repository: Unlocking the Past, website by Professor Leland Ferguson

25-Gallon Jar By David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter)
Repository: Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia

1859 Jar, by David Drake
Repository: Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia

Edgefield Pottery, Face Jugs
Repository: Smithsonian Museum

Sherry Byrd and her “Home-grown/Hand-made/Passed-on-Family” quilt
Repository: African Pottery, website by Professor Christopher Roy, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History.

Mary Lee Bendolph and Ruth P. Mosely, Bricklayer
Repository: Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective

Mary Lee Bendolph, Bars and Blocks, 2003
Repository: Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective

Phillip Simmons, 1982. Photographed by Tom Pich.
Repository: National Endowment for the Arts, Lifetime Honors, NEA National Heritage Fellowships

Mary Jackson at work. From “Profiles in Success,” The Craft Report, November 2001.
Repository: The Craft Report