Lottie Stamper

Lottie Stamper

Artisans

Arts and crafts movement

Basket makers

Basket making

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) is one of Cherokee's best-known basket weavers. In this undated photograph by an unknown photographer, Stamper is shown carving an interlock handle for a white oak basket. In the background is a young girl working on a basket. On the wall are sketches of various basket weaving patterns that Stamper used in the classroom. Born in the Soco community to Levi and Mary Queen, Lottie Queen first learned how to make white oak baskets from her mother. She married into a family that taught her how to make baskets from rivercane. In 1935, at the age of 28, she started making cane baskets. From 1937 until 1966, she taught basketry at the Cherokee school. Over her teaching career, she taught hundreds of girls to weave baskets. In 1952 she was awarded an honorary lifetime membership in the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. She was the first Native American to win this award.

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Photograph Collection

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

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11103

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2008-12-02

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

9.75" x 13.5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions