Blue Bottle Tree
by Jerry Griffin
Title
Blue Bottle Tree
Artist
Jerry Griffin
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Description
When African slaves arrived in the U.S., they created bottle trees from dead trees or large limbs next to their quarters and adorned them with glass bottles scavenged from garbage piles. Blue bottles were coveted, because they repelled evil and trapped night spirits to be destroyed by the rising sun.
This small blue bottle tree was photographed at the Frampton Plantation House in Yemassee, South Carolina.
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December 5th, 2020
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