Basket: rivercane, lid

Basket: rivercane, lid

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated basket lid is listed as a separate basket in Qualla Arts and Crafts Artifact Collection inventory. It was made by Lottie Queen Stamper and fits onto a deeper basket, QACM_1992_069. Lidded baskets such as these were used to store foodstuffs and household goods. The basket and cover are rectangular, one fitting inside the other. The top and base are different patterns. This is possibly the last basket Lottie Stamper ever made. 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.

Stamper, Lottie Queen, 1907-1987

Artifact Collection

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

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2008-04-11

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

4.5" x 20" x 12"(dimension)

Craft Revival