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?
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