Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley

Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc.

This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany a 1974 exhibition of "Rivercane Basketry by Rowena Bradley." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative in Cherokee, North Carolina. Rowena Bradley (1922-2003) was an accomplished basket weaver who specialized in rivercane baskets. The exhibition featured 15 baskets, all of them rivercane. By this time rivercane baskets were in demand; the baskets in the exhibit were from the permanent collections and were not for sale. A photograph of Bradley was included in the brochure. From 1969 through 1985, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. sponsored a series of exhibitions to promote Cherokee crafts. The brochures for these exhibits were reformatted and republished as "Contemporary Artists and Craftsmen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians" in 1987.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Archive Collection

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

1974

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4 pages(pages)

8.75" x 8.5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions