Amanda Smoker

Amanda Smoker

Basket makers

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), a basket weaver of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Smoker lived all of her life in Snowbird, a Cherokee community located 50 miles west of the Qualla Boundary, in Graham County, North Carolina. Learning to make baskets from her mother, she made white oak baskets and dyed with natural dyes. She produced baskets until the 1980s, when her health prevented her from weaving. She attended local schools and was an avid reader. The photograph is in the National Archives in Washington, DC (435-RJ-604-03).

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

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2009-07-01

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions