Basket: white oak, storage

Basket: white oak, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

It is not known who made this undated large storage basket. The tapered basket is made with white oak splits. Woven upward from a square base, the basket bulges outward before necking in to a small, rounded rim. The shape of this basket resembles a fishing basket used by Eastern Band Cherokee who would harvest fish from the region’s many rivers. The narrow opening of the basket would allow fish to swim in but not out, trapping them. The basket strips are not dyed, leaving natural the color of the white oak.

Unknown

Artifact Collection

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

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15980

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2009-04-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

13.5" x 13" x 13"(dimension)

Craft Revival