Basket: rivercane, storage

Basket: rivercane, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This storage basket was made by Lottie Queen Stamper, one of Cherokee’s best-known basket weavers. Using rivercane, the basket was woven upwards from a square base and tapers to a circular rim. Walnut hulls were used to dye the cane to achieve the dark brown color; bloodroot gave it an orange color. Its pattern is Man in a Coffin (or Man in a Casket), with “coffins” alternating along a diagonal. Born in the Soco community to Levi and Mary Queen, Lottie first learned how to make white oak and pine needle 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 and, in 1937, she began teaching basketmaking at the Cherokee School. Over her teaching career, Stamper taught hundreds of girls to weave baskets. While the date of this basket is not known, the time span represents the time the basket maker was active.

Stamper, Lottie Queen, 1907-1987

Artifact Collection

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

1935/1987

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15290

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2008-04-11

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

16" x 12" x 12"(dimension)

Craft Revival