Basket: white oak, storage

Basket: white oak, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undyed white oak storage basket was made by Emma Taylor. The basket's date is unknown. Its base is slightly rectangular and tapers to a circular top. The white oak splits were not dyed leaving the basket its natural color. Emma Squirrel Taylor (1920-2002) was a master basket weaver whose specialty was white oak baskets. She was raised in the Birdtown community on the Qualla Boundary, lands owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She learned how to make baskets in 1927 and produced them for more than half a century. In 1952 Taylor joined Qualla Arts and Craft Mutual, a Cherokee artisan cooperative.

Taylor, Emma Squirrel, 1920-2002

Artifact Collection

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

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15952

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2009-01-06

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 17" x 16"(dimension)

Craft Revival