Basket: white oak, storage

Basket: white oak, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated storage basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010). The upright basket is made with white oak splits. Woven upward from a rectangular base, the basket necks in before flaring outward to a round rim. The basket strips are not dyed, leaving natural the color of the white oak. Smoker lived all of her life in Snowbird, a Cherokee community located 50 miles west of the Qualla Boundary, in Graham County, North Carolina. Learning to make baskets from her mother, she made white oak baskets and dyed with natural dyes. She produced baskets until the 1980s, when her health prevented her from weaving.

Smoker, Amanda Elaine, 1916-2010

Artifact Collection

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

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15981

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2009-04-27

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

11.5" x 11.5" x 12"(dimension)

Craft Revival