Table with a tin top
Photo 1999.

The table with a tin top, beside the back door, held a bucket of water, a wash basin, and a bar of soap. The soap was made by Ms. Catherine out of waste grease and lye. The gourd dipper above the water bucket recalls Africa where gourds were used for drinking and for storing food. 

Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 60.

Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1999.