This undated photograph, by an unknown photographer, features Cherokee basket weaver Dolly Taylor (b. 1938). Taylor learned to make baskets from her mother, renowned Cherokee basket weaver Julia Ann Ned Taylor (1902-1991). Dolly began to learn basket…
A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Dorothy Thompson was born and raised in Big Cove, a remote section of the Qualla Boundary near Cherokee, North Carolina. She is the daughter of John and Charlotte Lottie Welch Lossiah, a basket…
This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany a 1978 exhibition of “Doubleweave Rivercane Basketry by Eva Wolfe.” The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and…
This photograph of the Driver family was taken around 1940 and shows two split white oak baskets, one a small berry bucket style basket, and a larger market basket. Such baskets were commonly used for carrying burdens, large and small, including…
This picture of Nimrod Jarrett Smith (1837-1893) is from a report by the United States Census Office, "Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina" (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892). …
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer is of Cherokee basket weaver Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995) with one of his woven rivercane wall hangings. Youngbird was unusual, as basketmaking is traditionally the sphere of women in Cherokee…
This photograph shows, from left to right, Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995), Lana Gudger, Joan Mondale, and Mrs. Robert B. Morgan. Youngbird was a Cherokee basket weaver and member of Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual. Lana Gudger was the wife of Vonno Lamar…
This photograph by Vivienne Roberts shows Ella May Sequoyah, wife of Amoneeta Sequoyah with her son, Amoneeta, Jr. and her daughter, Rachel Lydia Sequoyah. The rivercane purse basket on Mrs. Sequoyah's arm, also called a "shopper," is typical of…
In this undated photograph by an unknown photographer, basket weaver Elsie Watty poses with the tools needed to gather white oak, the raw material for her work. Elsie Welch Watty (1935-2016) was a master Cherokee basket weaver who specialized in…
In this undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph, basket weaver Elsie Watty is using a knife to size white oak splits to the proper width. Elsie Welch Watty (1935-2016) was a master Cherokee basket weaver who specialized in making white oak…