Ida Duckworth Woods oral history interview, 1995.

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Ida Duckworth Woods oral history interview, 1995.

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Woods discusses her mother's family origins and the harvesting, drying and preparing of palmetto for braiding. She discusses becoming involved in the Acadian Handicraft Project through her local home demonstration club. Details include the process of making corn husk dolls and how she found the pattern. She stopped working for the Acadian Handicraft project when Louise V. Olivier, field representative for the project, died.

1 sound cassette (20 minutes);Transcript (27 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6677426

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

Acadian Handicraft Project.

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Rabalais, Pamela Pace, 1947-

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Olivier, Yvonne

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Olivier, Louise

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Woods, Ida Duckworth, b. 1911,

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Ida Duckworth Woods, born in 1911, worked for the Acadian Handicraft Project making palmetto fans, placemats, and cornshuck dolls during the 1940s - 1960s. She became involved with the Acadian Handicraft project through her local home demonstration agent. From the description of Ida Duckworth Woods oral history interview, 1995. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122264943 ...