Cherokee Native Products. Cherokee Indian Reservation

Cherokee Native Products. Cherokee Indian Reservation

Arts and crafts movement

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Cherokee Indians

Handicraft

This photographic postcard shows a Cherokee infant sitting in a white oak split market basket. Baskets like this and the ones shown behind it were commonly made on the Qualla Boundary when this promotional postcard was made in 1950, and continue to be made today. With the improvement of roads making the North Carolina mountains more accessible during the 1920s, tourism became a significant force in the economy of Cherokee and the surrounding area. By the late 1940s, with the end of World War II, tourism once again became an important economic factor in western North Carolina. The increasing number of visitors provided Cherokee craftspeople a ready market for their traditional craft goods such as the baskets shown.

Bradley, Henry James

Photograph Collection

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

1950

Asheville Post Card Co.

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StillImage

15537

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2008-11-13

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.3" x 5.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival