Lon Reid, Choestoe, Union County, Georgia, 1969, turkey caller, maple, corrugated wooden cylinder and grooved wooden block, 5 x 5 in. overall; Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia, 1860s, hunting knife, bone handle and hand forged iron blade, 9-1/2 x 1-1/4 in. overall
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 112, cat. no. 78, Burrison writes “The bone-handled knife was used by the Plemons family.”;
Georgia, circa early 1900s, hunting knife, steel (from a circle-saw blade) and wood, 8-1/2 x 1-1/8 in. overall; Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, circa late 1800s, sturgeon “gig”, hand-forged iron, 9 x 3-1/2 in. overall; Monticello, Jasper county, Georgia, circa 1900, frog or fish “gig”, recycled from an old file, 8-3/4 x 3 in. overall
Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
pitting and oxidation to iron, some loss to grooved caller, condition consistent with age and use