Bill Davis braiding a belt from deer hide, 1988

Item Information

• Description
  Caption by photographer (Andrews): "Bill learned to braid leather when he was a child. His father did not want him to learn that craft so he would take the strands of leather under the covers of his bed at night and practice braiding simply by feel. He could do any sort of braid from the most simple to making what he called a "rosette", a round knot woven from 16 strands of leather, seemingly with no beginning or end."

• Item ID
  japph030020010
• Source Collection
  Jesse Andrews photographs, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
• Print Number
  JA_POR_88-20
• Spatial Coverage
  Virginia
• Title
  Bill Davis braiding a belt from deer hide, 1988
• Series
  Davis Family Photographs
• Provenance
  The Jesse Andrews photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
• Creator
  Andrews, Jesse
• Extent
  11 x 14 in.
• Date
  1988
• Box Number
  Box 3
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs
  portraits
• Subject
  Rural men

• Copyright & Usage
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