Helen Bradley Smith

Helen Bradley Smith

Basket makers

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

Helen Bradley Smith (1922-2007) was a Cherokee basket weaver who was proficient in white oak, honeysuckle, and rivercane basketry, including the double weave technique. She also did pottery, beadwork, and finger weaving. Growing up in the Big Cove community on the Qualla Boundary, lands owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she began making baskets when she was 15 or 16 years old. Her mother was basket weaver Eva Bradley; her daughter is Carol Smith Welch. In this photograph Smith is preparing white oak splits to be used in basket construction.

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Photograph Collection

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

1956

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2009-02-12

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.5" x 3.5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions