Basket: white oak, wall

Basket: white oak, wall

Basket making

Cherokee baskets

Handicraft

This undated white oak basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Emma Taylor. With a handle and flat back, the basket is meant to hang on a wall and used to store small items. Taylor’s basket is dyed with walnut and bloodroot to achieve the brown and orange colors that are woven into the basket. With such fine decoration, the basket was mostly made for sale or exhibition. Emma Squirrel Taylor (1920-2002) was a master Cherokee 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)

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15993

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2009-05-04

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8" x 5"(dimension)

Craft Revival