Basket: white oak, market

Basket: white oak, market

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated market basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Bessie Long. The flat-bottomed rectangular basket is made with white oak. Market baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather vegetables from the field or garden or to take dry foodstuffs to market. The handle is woven into and beneath the basket to give it strength, allowing its user to carry heavy load. The bands of brown color appear to be dyed with walnut, a traditional native dye plant among Eastern Band Cherokee. The bright orange color may be bloodroot or a commercial dye. With such fine decoration, the basket was more likely made to be taken shopping, rather used in a garden.

Long, Bessie

Artifact Collection

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

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15976

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2009-04-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

12" x 14" x 9"(dimension)

Craft Revival