Carol Welch

Carol Welch

Artisans

Basket makers

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Carol Welch with examples of her baskets. These baskets are white oak, but woven utilizing the rivercane technique. Carol Smith Welch (b. 1940) was the daughter of Helen Bradley Smith (1922-2007), an accomplished Cherokee basket weaver. Her aunt, Eva Bradley, was also a basket weaver. Welch learned to weave white oak baskets by watching her mother and later learned to weave rivercane and honeysuckle baskets from Lottie Stamper in school basketry classes. While at school, she also learned the double weave method of making rivercane baskets and, later, became Lottie Stamper's assistant. Her husband, Davis Welch, is a master mask maker. Welch lives in the Big Cove Community of the Qualla Indian Boundary, North Carolina.

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

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2009-03-31

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions