Basket: white oak, storage

Basket: white oak, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This white oak storage basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Agnes Welch. Dyed with blood root and walnut root, the basket is a combination of darks and the lighter natural color of white oak to make an overall pattern. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not learn this craft through her family. Instead, Welch learned to make baskets in school, from Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987). Stamper taught Welch to weave traditional rivercane baskets; later, Welch learned to make white oak baskets from her mother-in-law. White oak basketry became Agnes Welch's specialty. She is also known for her creative use of natural dyes to make distinctive basket patterns. The photograph, taken by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, appeared in the 1972 brochure, "Basketry by Agnes L. Welch."

United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Welch, Agnes Lossie, 1925-1997

Photograph Collection

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

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15851

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2009-01-06

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Craft Revival