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About Edith Clayton
- Edith Clayton (September 6, 1920 – October 8, 1989) was a Canadian basket maker. The daughter of James Alexander Drummond and Selena Irene Sparks, who were descendants of Black Loyalists who left the United States in 1812-14, she was born Edith Drummond in Lake Loon, Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia.
- The basket weaving technique that she used originated in Africa and was passed along from mother to daughter over six generations.
- Clayton used natural dyes obtained from Mi'kmaq women.
- She sold her baskets at craft fairs across Canada and also taught classes in basket making.
- Her baskets were exhibited at Expo 86.She died in East Preston at the age of 69.Her daughters Althea Tolliver, Pam Drummond wall and Clara Clayton-Gough continue the family tradition of basket weaving.Clayton appeared in Sylvia Hamilton's film Black Mother, Black Daughter.
- Scholar Peggy Bristow (in a volume edited by Hamilton) Clayton's impact as "passing on a significant and uniquely African-Nova Scotian aspect of the province's heritage."
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