Baskets of the Woods

Baskets of the Woods

Basketwork

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee women

Handicraft

Manners and customs

This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany an exhibition of baskets by Carol Welch held in the fall of 1977. The exhibition was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an artisan cooperative in Cherokee, North Carolina and was supported by a grant from the American Indian Program of the Save the Children Federation. Twenty-five white oak and rivercane baskets were included. Carol Smith Welch (b. 1940) was the daughter of Helen Bradley Smith (1922-2007), an accomplished Cherokee basket weaver. Her aunt, Eva Bradley, was also a basket weaver. Welch learned to weave white oak baskets by watching her mother and later learned to weave rivercane and honeysuckle baskets from Lottie Stamper in school basketry classes. While at school, she also learned the double weave method of making rivercane baskets and, later, became Lottie Stamper’s assistant. Her husband, Davis Welch, was a mask maker.

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Archive Collection

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

1977

Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc.

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

4 pages(pages)

8.75" x 8.5"(dimension)

Cherokee Traditions