10. Folk Furniture - Acacia Collection

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Thomas Day mantle, ca. 1830’s is the center of an exhibit of
handmade objects, from the Acacia Collection, in a late 19th century
domestic scene.
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The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
FOLK ROCKING CHAIR
( Note: Started out as regular chair, but later parts of an old plow were
attached as runners to make a rocking chair)
Carved finials, haint blue coloration,
Ca. early 20th century,
Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Dimensions: H: 36” W: 17”
Exhibited: Telfair Museum of Art, Owens Thomas House Slave
Quarters.
COMMODE
Used to house water pitcher and bowl in bedroom, tramp art
motif, south eastern U.S.A.,
ca. 1890-1920
Dimensions: H: 32 ½” W: 16 ½” D: 20 ½” TOP: 22 ½” x 26”
Featured in: the Georgia Inventory of Folk Furniture by Pam
Wagner, Colonial Dames, Atlanta, Georgia
FOLK CHAIR
Oversized, ladder-back with twisted corn shuck seat, North
Carolina.
Exhibited: Telfair Museum of Art, Owens Thomas House Slave
Quarters
Reframing a Perceptual Paradigm: A Jerome Meadows
Installation, Telfair Academy, 2009
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
FOLK TABLE “THE WEDDING GIFT”
For use on porch for plants, a gift to a niece on the occasion of
her marriage, given by an uncle in south Georgia near
Thomasville, faded haint blue coloration, South Georgia,
ca. 1920-24
Exhibited: Beach Institute African American Cultural Center,
Savannah, Georgia “Art from a Culture of Making Do” 1996-97
TWIG FOLK TABLE
Decorated with silver paint and unique design motif, dated
November 20th though year is indistinct, ca. 1930-1940’s
(type of table vended during spring and summer marketplace)
Dimensions: H: 28.5” W: 19.5” D: 15”
Savannah, Ga. Ca. 1940’s
FOLK SIDE TABLE
Scallop and circle design, wood, nails, varnish
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
TWIG TABLE
Round top, decorated with sycamore balls, silver and other
remnant paint,
ca.1918-1940
Dimensions: H: 36 ½” W: 24” Dia: 16”
Featured in: COUNTRY HOME 1997
Exhibited: McKissick Museum, University of S.C., Columbia
FOLK TABLE
Unusual rectangular cabinet for housing bottle of favorite spirits,
wood and asymmetrical marquetry cabinet with lower shelf,
photos displayed under glass table top
ca. 1950’s
FOLK TWIG CORNER WHAT-NOT-SHELF
Scrap wood, stretched twigs, black paint, four decades in same
black family’s home, made in Savannah, Ga.,
ca.1930-45
Dimensions: H: 53” W: 18”
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
PLANT STAND
Handmade, wood, painted red
(Note:an old standby of African American women in the South)
FOLK CHINA CABINET
Hand made from scrap wood, varnish, glass,
ca. 1920-33
Dimensions: H: 69” W: 30 ½” D: 16 ½”
CHINA CABINET WITH CURVED GLASS
Probably of Sears’ manufacture, from well to do Savannah,
Georgia African-American family,
ca. 1940
Dimensions: H 56 ½” W: 33 ½” D: 14”
(As people moved from a subsistence economy to the
mainstream market economy, they generally preferred “store
bought” to homemade.)
(not photographed)
DECORATED TWIG SMOKING STAND
ca. 1940s
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Folk Furniture
UTILITY SHELVING
Portable and collapsible
(Note: Collapsible furniture was used during the Depression Era by those who
move frequently.)
DECORATED FOLDING TABLE
Portable and collapsible,
ca. 1930’s
TWIG FOLDING SHELF
Portable and collapsible,
ca. 1930
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
CHILD'S BED
Homemade with Plumber's Pipe, Coastal GA.
FOLK PIE SAFE
Handmade with wire screening, by Charles Byrd,
Savannah, Georgia
HALL TREE
Painted haint blue, Southeastern U.S.A.
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Folk Furniture
TWIG HALL TREE WITH UMBRELLA STAND
Painted, umbrella holder base made of sardine can,
ca. 1931
BLACK TWIG HALL TREE
WOOD AND VINE HALL TREE
ca. 1924
(not pictured)
FOLK HAT RACK
Handmade from wood and vines with elaborate wood filigree
base, regional paint decoration, ca.1918-1940
Dimensions: H: 81 ½” Pedestal: 15” x 15”
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
FOLK TRIPOD TWIG TABLE
Dark green paint with veve-type design outlined in silver paint
South Carolina
FOLK TRIPOD TWIG TABLE
With carpet top (not shown)
FOLK WALL SHELF
Wood, painted with unusual design motif
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Folk Furniture
PRIMITIVE LOW TABLE
Wood, nails, type used in cabins of enslaved and free blacks.
PRIMITIVE STOOL
Scrap wood, nails, type used in cabins by enslaved and free
blacks
PRIMITIVE CABIN BENCH
Homemade, random wood, type used in cabins by enslaved and
free blacks
The Acacia Collection of African Americana
Folk Furniture
LADDER-BACK CHAIR WITH HIDE SEAT
Homemade
Black enamel paint over haint blue.
Coastal, Ga.
TABLE
Wood. Paint/Air Brushed.
First African American Congressmen based on Currier-Ives
print.
TWIG TABLE
Decoration painted on legs and cross bars
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Folk Furniture
PEDESTAL
Hand made pedestal or plant stand
HALL TREE
Natural branches and vines
CORNER WHAT NOT SHELF
Handmade, plywood, dark brown stain
ca. 1960’s