Driver Family with baskets

Driver Family with baskets

Basket makers

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Manners and customs

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 household and personal items as well as agricultural products. Small baskets were often used to gather berries, nuts, and mushrooms from the forest, while larger ones were used to carry vegetables from the field or garden, or to transport dry foodstuffs to or from market. A wide variety of colors to create patterns could be obtained through the use of natural dyes like black walnut root (brown); butternut tree root (a darker brown); bloodroot (orange); or yellowroot (yellow) to obtain contrasting colors and patterns. The photographer's name is unknown.

Unknown

Photograph Collection

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

1939/1941

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10973

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2009-01-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

2.5" x 3.25"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions