Publication Date
11-3-2017
Abstract
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 348. Student paper titled “Trees in Folk Crafts” in which Tammie Pickering and Gary Collins explore the connection between trees and traditional folkways. Paper details the medicinal properties of sassafras tea, which is made from tree roots, the production of maple syrup, and the expressive crafts of wood-carving and carpentry. Data collected from three working-class residents of Caldwell County. Paper also includes field journals, recorded interviews, and transcripts.
Disciplines
American Popular Culture | Art Practice | Folklore | Plant Sciences
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Pickering, Tammie & Gary Collins (FA 348)" (2017). FA Finding Aids. Paper 207.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_fin_aid/207
Trees in Folk Crafts (paper)
Included in
American Popular Culture Commons, Art Practice Commons, Folklore Commons, Plant Sciences Commons
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu