Basket: white oak, round bottom with hinged lid

Dublin Core

Title

Basket: white oak, round bottom with hinged lid

Subject

Basket making
Cherokee baskets
Handicraft

Description

This basket was woven by an unknown Cherokee basket maker during the 1910s or 1920s. It is a medium sized white oak basket with a double hinged lid. The fibers were naturally dyed with walnut (dark), bloodroot (reddish), and a third vegetable dye (green) which has faded. It was a gift to Frances Goodrich from Gazza Enlow of Judson, North Carolina.

Creator

Unknown

Source

Permanent Collection

Publisher

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

Date

1910/1925

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

jpg;
crafts (art genres)

Type

StillImage

Identifier

15238
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/15238

Date Created

2008-04-14

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact Southern Highland Craft Guild Archives, Asheville, NC 28815;

Spatial Coverage

Qualla Boundary
Appalachian Region, Southern

Extent

14" x 14" x 8"(dimension)

Is Part Of

Craft Revival

Collection

Citation

Unknown, “Basket: white oak, round bottom with hinged lid,” OAI, accessed April 30, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/15238.