This undated market basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Bessie Long. The flat-bottomed rectangular basket is made with white oak. Market baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather…
This basket was woven by an unknown Cherokee basket maker during the 1930s. It is made from white oak which has been dyed with natural dyes made from walnut, bloodroot, and yellowroot. The form is commonly called a market basket.
This basket was woven by an unknown Cherokee basket maker during the 1930s. It is made from white oak which has been dyed with natural dye made from walnut. The form is commonly called a market basket.
This undated white oak basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Minda Hill Sequoyah Wolfe (1897-1983). Large baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather vegetables from the field or garden…
It is not known who made this undated market basket. The flat-bottomed rectangular basket is made with white oak. Large, handled baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather vegetables from the…
This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The body of this picnic basket, dyed with walnut root and…
This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The body of this picnic basket, dyed with walnut root, is…
This undated photograph was made by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and shows a white oak planter basket that was made by Carol Welch. This basket utilizes techniques and patterns usually associated with rivercane, and the pattern is called the…
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a white oak purse basket by Carol Welch. The basket has white oak drop handles and is woven in the Stairway to Heaven design, a design more common to rivercane basketry. Carol Smith Welch…
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer depicts a white oak purse basket made by Carol Welch utilizing techniques and patterns usually associated with rivercane. Carol Smith Welch was the daughter of Helen Bradley Smith, an accomplished…