Rowena Bradley

Rowena Bradley

Artisans

Basket makers

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Manners and customs

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph shows Rowena Bradley preparing to work on a rivercane basket. On the ground beside her is a pile of rivercane, already cut and split. Born in the Swimmer Branch Community of the Qualla Boundary, as a child Rowena Bradley (1922-2003) learned to weave baskets by watching her mother, Nancy George Bradley (1881-1963). Later, her mother taught her the complex double weave technique. A third generation basket weaver, both her grandmother, Mary Dobson, and her mother, Nancy George Bradley, were accomplished basket makers. Basketmaking was a family tradition; her father, Henry Bradley gathered rivercane and dug roots for dye materials. Photograph is labeled, "Rowena Bradley a Cherokee Indian Rivercane Basket Maker from the Big Y Community Cherokee Indian Reservation. Cherokee, N.C."

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

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

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2008-10-28

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions