Edmund Youngbird

Edmund Youngbird

Artisans

Basket makers

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

Manners and customs

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 culture. Youngbird was known to be highly skilled and specialized in making baskets from rivercane. Youngbird learned to weave rivercane baskets from his grandmother, Lizzie ""Nannie"" Youngbird.

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Photograph Collection

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

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10974

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2008-11-13

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions