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P hoto Essa y .................... Handiwork A Postscript from The South in Color photographs by William R. Ferris This stockman’s cane was made by Victor “Hickory Stick” Bobb out of hickory wood (1976). Mr. Bobb designs, paints, and lacquers the cane and then gives it to one of his friends whom he ad- mires. He never sold a cane. When friends would say, “But I don’t need a cane,” he would reply, “If you live long enough, you will.” Mr. Bobb lived in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 84 Pecolia Warner stands in front of one of her quilts in Yazoo City, Mississippi (1975). The fabric of her dress and her face are at one with the quilt. Mrs. Warner told me that she learned to sew quilts through “re fi place learning,” as she sat beside her mother and grandmother sewing by the re fi place. 85 The front porch of Pecolia Warner’s home in Yazoo City, Mississippi (1975), was a comfortable, intimate place where people often sat and spoke with neighbors as they walked past on the street below. This quilt cover will soon be sewn into a beautiful quilt. Mrs. Warner has sewn pieces of fabric into patterns that
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Dec 11, 2016
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