Basket: white oak, storage

Basket: white oak, storage

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated 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 her specialty. She is also known for her creative use of natural dyes to make distinctive basket patterns.

Welch, Agnes Lossie, 1925-1997

Artifact Collection

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

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

30.5" x 30" x 30"(dimension)

Craft Revival