Basket: rivercane, purse

Basket: rivercane, purse

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane purse basket made by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley in 1974. The basket is woven in a pattern known as Peace Pipes. The photograph is labeled, "A purse basket of rivercane with the peace pipe design and dyed with butternut root and blood root, This basket was made by Rowena Bradley (in 1974), an outstanding basketweaver 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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15406

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2008-10-28

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

8" x 10"(dimension)

Craft Revival