Emma Taylor

Emma Taylor

Basket makers

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Manners and customs

Emma Squirrel Taylor (1920-2002) was a master Cherokee basket weaver whose specialty was white oak baskets. After learning how to make a basket in 1927, she produced them for more than half a century. Her work earned her recognition well beyond the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina. An article about her appeared in the New York Times and she traveled to Japan to demonstrate Cherokee basket weaving to the World Craft Council. This 1975 photograph, taken by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, shows Taylor removing the bark from a walnut tree. Walnut bark was used to make a brown dye that Taylor used to color her white oak baskets.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

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

1975-04

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2008-11-19

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions