Basket: rivercane, square bottom

Basket: rivercane, square bottom

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This basket was woven by an unknown Cherokee basket weaver using locally grown rivercane in the early 1950s. The basket features a traditional Cherokee basketmaking technique known as double weave, a complicated process where the inner and outer basket layers are woven in one piece. The split cane was dyed with colors taken from bloodroot (orange) and walnut (black) plants. The basket was purchased by Allen Eaton and donated to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild (now Southern Highland Craft Guild) for its museum collection.

Unknown

Permanent Collection

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

1950/1959

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

14549

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2008-01-19

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

9.5" x 5"(dimension)

Craft Revival