Basket: rivercane, storage

Basket: rivercane, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular reinforced rim. Baskets of this shape served multiple domestic uses; the photograph identifies this as a waste basket. The rivercane basket is woven in a pattern known as Noon Day Sun. The photograph is labeled, "A wastebasket, plaited in rivercane in the noon day sun design and dyed with butternut root and blood root, By Rowena Bradley of the painttown community of Qualla Indian Boundery, Cherokee, North Carolina."

Bradley, Rowena, 1922-2003

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Photograph Collection

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

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2008-10-28

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Craft Revival