Master Index of Illustrations

THE HISTORY OF THE CABINS.. 12

Fig. 1.     Map: Present location of hewn-timber cabins. 13

Fig. 2.     Ms. Catherine’s house. 14

Fig. 3.     Ms. Tena’s house. 15

Fig. 4.     Sign at the cabins. 16

Fig. 5.     Map: Mars Bluff 17

Fig. 6.     Plat: Original location of cabins. 18

Fig. 7.     Dovetailing. 19

Fig. 8.     Treasures of Ancient Nigeria. 20

Fig. 9.     Cabin with addition at the back. 21

Fig. 10.     Alex Gregg. 22

Fig. 11.     Ms. Catherine’s house with addition. 24

Fig. 12.     Ms. Tena’s house with addition. 25

Fig. 13.     The Waiterses bought a home. 26

Fig. 14.     Their old houses stood empty. 27

Fig. 15.     Ms. Catherine’s house after Hurricane Hugo. 28

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE IN THESE CABINS (Return to the top).. 29

Fig. 16.     Alex Gregg & Florence Henderson Gregg. 30

Fig. 17.     Archie Waiters with grandparents’ picture. 31

Fig. 18.     Gourd dippers. 32

Fig. 19.     Well bucket 33

Fig. 20.     Early mattresses. 34

Fig. 21.     Food trays. 35

Fig. 22.     Wooden food container 36

Fig. 23.     Bell 37

TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE IN THESE HOUSES (Return to the top).. 38

Fig. 24.     The Waiterses’ first home. 39

Fig. 25.     Fireplace, pot, iron, and broom.. 40

Fig. 26.     Pot for cooking in the fireplace. 41

Fig. 27.     Kettle. 42

Fig. 28.     Table, chairs, and crate. 43

Fig. 29.     Straight chair with cane bottom.. 44

Fig. 30.     Crate. 45

Fig. 31.     Lamp. 46

Fig. 32.     Lamp, a second one. 47

Fig. 33.     Table with canned food and gourd. 48

Fig. 34.     Jars for canning. 49

Fig. 35.     Hog scraper 50

Fig. 36.     Lantern. 51

Fig. 37.     Pump. 52

Fig. 38.     Ms. Waiters and three of her sons. 53

Fig. 39.     Large gourd dipper 54

Fig. 40.     Uncut gourd. 55

Fig. 41.     Behind Ms. Catherine’s house. 56

Fig. 42.     Diagram of Ms. Catherine’s house. 57

Fig. 43.     Bed and quilt 58

Fig. 44.     African influence in quilts. 59

Fig. 45.     Iron bed. 60

Fig. 46.     Ms. Catherine’s quilt 61

Fig. 47.     Ms. Catherine’s wash pot 62

Fig. 48.     Soap made by Ms. Catherine. 63

Fig. 49.     Ironing board. 64

Fig. 50.     Ms. Catherine’s iron. 65

Fig. 51.     Iron with handle made by blacksmith. 66

Fig. 52.     Cleaning her iron. 67

Fig. 53.     Wallpaper in Ms. Catherine’s house. 68

Fig. 54.     Poster showing Ms. Catherine’s wallpaper 69

Fig. 55.     Yard broom.. 70

Fig. 56.     Sweeping in a neighbor’s yard. 71

Fig. 57.     A second yard broom.. 72

Fig. 58.     Medicinal plants. 73

Fig. 59.     Bottle and snuff can. 74

Fig. 60.     Horseshoe. 75

Fig. 61.     Sewing machine. 76

Fig. 62.     Ed Pinkney. 77

Fig. 63.     Wooden trunk. 78

Fig. 64.     Table with tin top. 79

Fig. 65.     Gourd with leather thong. 80

Fig. 66.     Blue straight chair 81

Fig. 67.     Armchair 82

Fig. 68.     Small rocking chair 83

Fig. 69.     Porch rocking chair 84

Fig. 70.     Lodge badge. 85

Fig. 71.     Janie Pinkney. 86

Fig. 72.     Old house broom.. 87

Fig. 73.     Broomstraw.. 88

Fig. 74.     House broom with special loop. 89

Fig. 75.     New house broom.. 90

Fig. 76.     A new home. 91

Fig. 77.     Where the old meets the new.. 92

SEARCHING FOR AFRICAN ANCESTORS (Return to the top).. 93

Fig. 78.     Who were their ancestors?. 94

Fig. 79.     The search. 95

Fig. 80.     Mariah Malinka. 96

Fig. 81.     West Africa and the Congo. 97

Fig. 82.     Words from the Bantu. 98

Fig. 83.     Words from West Africa. 99

Fig. 84.     Great Da. 100

BUILDING THE HEWN-TIMBER CABINS (Return to the top).. 101

Fig. 85.     Who built the cabins?. 103

Fig. 86.     Full-dovetailed cornering. 104

Fig. 87.     Timbers smooth and tight fitting. 105

Fig. 88.     Saw.. 106

Fig. 89.     Wedge. 107

Fig. 90.     Glut 108

Fig. 91.     Hewing. 109

Fig. 92.     Felling axe. 110

Fig. 93.     Scoring a log with an axe. 111

Fig. 94.     Broadaxe blade. 112

Fig. 95.     Hewing with a broadaxe. 113

Fig. 96.     Adz blade. 114

Fig. 97.     Drawing of hewing with an adz. 115

Fig. 98.     Waiters recalled a mad axe. 116

Fig. 99.     Adz with proper handle. 117

Fig. 100.     Pit sawing

Fig. 100b.   Why did they pit saw?
. 118

Fig. 101.     Making full-dovetailed corners. 120

Fig. 102.     Froe. 121

Fig. 103.     Mallet 122

Fig. 104.     Shingle-making. 123

Fig. 105.     Drawing of shingle-making. 124

Fig. 106.     Drawknife. 125

Fig. 107.     Strap and pintle hinges. 126

Fig. 108.     Pintle. 127

Fig. 109.     Hinge on Ms. Catherine’s door 128

RUSKA GREGG—WOODCRAFTSMAN (Return to the top).. 129

Fig. 110.     Map: Where Ruska Gregg lived and worked. 130

Fig. 111.     Bark spud. 131

Fig. 112.     Gluts. 132

Fig. 113.     Glut and basket 133

Fig. 114.     Waiters showing bottom of basket 134

Fig. 115.     Rim of the basket 135

Fig. 116.     Archie Waiters/Ruska Gregg Memorial Glut 136

Fig. 117.     Using Gregg's baskets in the 1930s. 137

Fig. 118.     Trough. 138

Fig. 119.     Rasp. 139

Fig. 120.     Cant hook. 140

RECALLING OTHER CRAFTSMEN (Return to the top).. 141

Fig. 121     Wooden “hinge” 142

Fig. 122.     Lock from gin house. 143

WORKING IN THE FIELDS (Return to the top).. 144

Fig. 123.     $4.40 for a week’s work. 145

Fig. 124.     Ms. Tena made sixty cents. 146

Fig. 125.     Hoe blade. 147

Fig. 126.     Nigerian hoe. 148

Fig. 127.     The Pinkney’s hoe. 149

Fig. 128.     Singletree. 150

COTTON-PICKING TIME (Return to the top).. 151

Fig. 129.     Cotton-picking sack. 153

Fig. 130.     Field scale. 154

Fig. 132.     The Lightning Calculator 156

Fig. 133.     Cotton grown by Otis Waiters. 157

Fig. 134.     Gin house scale. 158

Fig. 135.     Weight for gin house scale. 159

Fig. 136.     Second weight for gin house scale. 160

THE RICE GROWERS (Return to the top).. 161

Fig. 137.     Rice growers in Africa. 162

Fig. 138.     Her mother grew rice. 163

Fig. 139.     A woman rice grower 164

Fig. 140.     Frances Johnson with sickle. 165

Fig. 141.     Vico Johnson’s Sickle. 166

Fig. 142.     How Vico Johnson flailed rice. 167

Fig. 143.     Nigerian woman flailing rice. 168

Fig. 144.     Nigerian poster 169

Fig. 145.     Mortar and pestle. 170

Fig. 146.     Pestle. 171

Fig. 147.     Learning African skills. 172

ACKNOWLEDGING AFRICAN CULTURE AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Return to the top).. 173

Fig. 148.     Knowledge of Africa. 174

NEARBY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SITES (Return to the top).. 175

Fig. 149.     African-American Cemetery. 176

Fig. 150.     Poster showing Rosenwald schoolhouse

Fig. 151.     Furniture in Ms. Catherine’s house . 177

PROVENANCE OF ARTICLES.. 178

BOOKS & FILES RELATED TO HEWN-TIMBER CABINS.. 182

ADDENDUM.. 183

ARTIFACTS (Return to the top).. 184

Fig. 151b.     Andirons. 185

Fig. 152.     Maul 186

Fig. 153.     Strap hinge. 187

Fig. 154.     White-oak basket 188

Fig. 155.     Ms. Pinkney’s house broom.. 189

Fig. 156.     Washstand. 190

Fig. 157.     Whatnot 191

FARM RECORD BOOKS (Return to the top).. 192

Fig. 158.     Walter Wallace’s farm record book. 193

Fig. 159.     A page in Walter Wallace’s farm record book. 194

Fig. 160.     Mars Bluff gin-house books. 195

Fig. 161.     Very small spiral notebook. 196

Fig. 162.     Captain McIntyre’s record book. 197

POSTERS (Return to the top).. 198

Fig. 163.     Poster: People with a sheet of cotton. 199

Fig. 164.     Poster: A cotton sack and burlap sheets. 200

Fig. 165.     Poster: Weighing-up time. 201

Fig. 166.     Poster: Archie and Catherine Waiters. 202

Fig. 167.     Poster: Archie Waiters holding picture. 203

Fig. 168.     Poster: Alex Gregg and Florence Gregg. 204

Fig. 169.     Poster: Three generations. 205

Fig. 170.     Poster: 1929 payroll with Hun’s name. 206

Fig. 171.     Poster: 1929 payroll with Ms. Tena’s name. 207

Fig. 172.     Poster: Archie Waiters’s connection to the gin record. 208

Fig. 173.     Poster: Using Ruska Gregg’s baskets. 209

Fig. 174.     Poster: The old ways of housekeeping. 210

Fig. 175.     Poster: Catherine Waiters sweeping yard. 211

Fig. 176.     Poster: Cora Robinson and swept yard. 212

Fig. 177.     Poster: Catherine Waiters with medicinal plants. 213

Fig. 178.     Poster: Wallpaper from the hewn-timber house. 214

Fig. 179.     Poster: Johnnie Waiters lived in the hewn-timber house. 215

Fig. 180.     Poster: Where the old meets the new.. 216

Fig. 181.     Poster: African roots. 217

Fig. 182.     Poster: Three cultures merged. 218

Fig. 183.     Poster: Archie Waiters, 1914-1990. 219

Fig. 184.     Poster: Fannie Jolly Ellison: a woman rice grower 220

Fig. 185.     Poster: How Frances Johnson’s father flailed rice. 221

Fig. 186.     Poster: Nigerian woman flailing rice. 222

Fig. 187.     Poster: Old Cemetary. 223

Fig. 188.     Poster: Hewn-timber cabin after the hurricane. 224

Fig. 189.     Poster: Hewing with a broadax. 225

Fig. 190.     Poster: Hewing with an adz. 226

Fig. 191.     Poster:  Cornering. 227

DATA FOR ACCESSION RECORDS (Return to the top).. 228

Fig. 192.     Pints of canned food. 229

Fig. 193.     Quarts of canned food. 230

Fig. 194.     Empty quart jars. 231

Fig. 195.     Half-gallons of canned food. 232

Fig. 196.     Plain straight chairs. 233

Fig. 197.     Plain straight chairs, seats. 234

Fig. 198.     Type of caning in armchair 235

Fig. 199.     Felling ax, modern. 236

Fig. 200.     Poster: Johnnie Waiters was the last person. 237